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Hello. This is my first winter with a pool. It is a 14x30 inground, salt water pool, about 15,000 gallons. I would appreciate any input on winter season--do you winterize the pool or not? Cover required? I have the pool open and of course, still have to run the pump. Is it cost effective to winterize/close the pool for the winter months, thus saving electricity cost on the pump? Any input on variable pumps? Thanks in advance.
Unless you live somewhere there are no trees, get a pool cover or you will be sorry, the leaves and branches will leave a mess and can even stain the paint of your pool. Check with your pool pump dealer on whether you should keep the pool running all winter. It would be best to shut it off.
We had a larger pool and no cover. Not a huge deal, but you need clear the filters a couple of times a day during peak leaf falling season. Also, as mentioned by Lassielad, leaves on the bottom may leave staining, so make sure you have a robot that sucks up those leaves and clean that filter.
Lastly, check with your pump manufacturer and make sure it has a "freeze protection" mode. Most of the modern pumps will circulate water across the system to ensure nothing freezes, plus they would shut down automatically if they are about to freeze.
Hello. This is my first winter with a pool. It is a 14x30 inground, salt water pool, about 15,000 gallons. I would appreciate any input on winter season--do you winterize the pool or not? Cover required? I have the pool open and of course, still have to run the pump. Is it cost effective to winterize/close the pool for the winter months, thus saving electricity cost on the pump? Any input on variable pumps? Thanks in advance.
Our electric bill has dropped pretty substantially since we closed the pool but we also paid someone to close it and will pay someone to open it so it may just be a wash. But I also don't have to worry about chemicals or cleaning the pool. Just occasionally pumping the water off the cover.
We've always winterized and covered but our safety cover was in bad need of replacement (it's 20 years old, ripped, dry rotted, etc. ) so we just left the pool open this winter. We are pretty happy with this arrangement . We normally covered it early November and opened in mid-March and it's a lot of trouble to go to for a few months "off" from pool duty. We only run the pump every few days for 12-24 hours, or leave it on if we are going below freezing.Rather than buying a new cover, we are just taking down a few trees. They are to the north and offer no shade anyway, just mess. And a bonus, the pool is actually staying nice and clean. An algae bloom started a couple weeks ago and I knocked it out in a couple of days. No more taking the cover off at St. Patrick's day and seeing the shallow end the color of a shamrock.
Buy a cover, use it during winter and not worry about it. Who wants to waste electricity and manage chemicals during the winter.
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