Tips on How to Prevent your Pool from Freeze Damage

When the winter months come there is a big challenge for pool owners there are 2 types of people one who completely shut down their pool others who keep it open. Today, we are talking about people who keep the pool open during the winter season.

Yes, it is possible to keep the pool open but it needs some special care. If your pool freezes it could cost you a lot of money from burst pipes to cracked equipment, you could seriously face a lot of property damage.

Through this article, we will explore a few points that can save your money and prevent your pool from freezing and pool equipment from getting destroyed. You can completely rely on this information, as it comes from Experts from Pool Service Scottsdale AZ.

Best Ways to Prevent Swimming Pool Freeze Damage: 

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• Know when to winterize your swimming pool:

This point is first because I think this is the most effective trick is the best that we can give to save your pool from freezing.
Making your pool warm is the most effective method as long as you keep it warm, your pool is safe and does not to forget to keep the temperature above the freezing point of 32 degrees.

• Cover your pool with pool cover to keep the heat in the pool:

Using a solar pool cover is the best way to keep the pool warm and even money-saving .it helps to warm the pool water faster while improving heat retention.
If your pool doesn’t have a pool cover don’t forget to buy a nice solar one before the winter arrives.     

• Run your pool’s heater according to the temperature:

Depending upon the place you live and the temperature at that place what extend can the temperature go and the amount of time you’ll run your heater I recommend using the heater at night cause at night the temperature increases 

• Using a freezer protector:

So how do a freeze protector work a freeze Protection Units allow pool and spa owners to set the desired temperature in which their pump and heater automatically turn on? If the climate there reaches the warm temperature, the freeze protection unit kicks in switching on your pump and heater.
Let your filter pump running 24 hours to avoid your pipes and pool equipment’s from freezing

• Let the filter 24 hours to avoid the pipes from freezing and cracking:

If a freeze protector is not available in your budget, or you live somewhere far where there is the immoderate cold temperature the old method might be the best choice for you.

How do I keep the pool pump from freezing?

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The best way to keep your pool pump away from freezing is by not giving it a single chance before it is too late if you feel the pump is getting cold the best you can do is to remove the drain plug and relieve pressure from the system.
And you can also use a skimmer bottle to protect skimmer from cracking.
This tip is for the people who chose to close their pool, simply run their pool less even though it is still worth knowing anyway. Now, this is the logic behind the skimmer the bottle, if the water in skimmer freezes it can harm the plastic part and it may lead to cracks in the plastic fixture due to inflation but if we use something to absorb all the freeze, then you can easily protect your skimmer from.

Here is a DIY to make a skimmer bottle. Here is how to make it:

• Grab an empty water bottle
• Fill it 1/3 with pool antifreeze
• Screw the cap back on
• Drop the bottle into the skimmer

The pressure absorbers job is done by the bottle it acts as a pressure absorber, relieving the stress that the freeze is putting on the walls.

For optimal distribution (or filter) set all of the waves to open:

Even though it is just a tip but this one is very important. In almost every case, the values in the pool plumbing will be organized to be open as the pool starts running. But there are some of the cases when we change the valve position, or even partially close one of them.