I closed my Maryland semi-inground concrete block mound pool on November 12th last year.
I'm SO close to opening I can feel it, the temperature is almost there. Maybe one more cold dipping day next week, then sometime in May I'm going to go for it.
I took a look outside this weekend and saw some standing water (full of pollen of course) on my mesh winter cover. I was confused. Why was there standing water? It's not frozen. Is the pollen clogging the mesh or something?
So I took a peak under the cover and the water level is basically at FULL, almost right at my skimmer target.
When I closed, I drained the pool 12" or approximately 3000 gallons about 2" below my lowest return (so that I could get a nice 3000 gallon water delivery).
Did I not drain it enough? Or should I take this as a well planned closing? I suppose if the water was that high during the freezing months (or even half way) my skimmer was at risk? I did put a good amount of antifreeze in there and plugged inside the skimmer, but the antifreeze is probably all diluted now if the skimmer is full. Do I take this as learning for next year and drain 24" instead of 12" since we seemed to get 12" of water (snow melt + rain) while it was closed this year? What's your advice?
Admittedly this is my first time ever owning a pool. We bought the house last year and I've done all the maintenance myself, cleaning, powerwashing, repainting, filling, vacuuming, closing, and now this is my first ever true opening (since we drained, cleaned and refilled after we moved in).
Thanks so much!
I'm SO close to opening I can feel it, the temperature is almost there. Maybe one more cold dipping day next week, then sometime in May I'm going to go for it.
I took a look outside this weekend and saw some standing water (full of pollen of course) on my mesh winter cover. I was confused. Why was there standing water? It's not frozen. Is the pollen clogging the mesh or something?
So I took a peak under the cover and the water level is basically at FULL, almost right at my skimmer target.
When I closed, I drained the pool 12" or approximately 3000 gallons about 2" below my lowest return (so that I could get a nice 3000 gallon water delivery).
Did I not drain it enough? Or should I take this as a well planned closing? I suppose if the water was that high during the freezing months (or even half way) my skimmer was at risk? I did put a good amount of antifreeze in there and plugged inside the skimmer, but the antifreeze is probably all diluted now if the skimmer is full. Do I take this as learning for next year and drain 24" instead of 12" since we seemed to get 12" of water (snow melt + rain) while it was closed this year? What's your advice?
Admittedly this is my first time ever owning a pool. We bought the house last year and I've done all the maintenance myself, cleaning, powerwashing, repainting, filling, vacuuming, closing, and now this is my first ever true opening (since we drained, cleaned and refilled after we moved in).
Thanks so much!