Our pool closing is scheduled for next Friday. Water temperature is 68 degrees now so I doubt that It will be below 60 in 7 days when we close. Our pool is surrounded by trees that are dropping leaves into the pool constantly right now, so I really don’t want to postpone the closing because of the water temperature. Before we close, I have a few questions.
1. If we go ahead with the pool closing next Thursday, I assume we need to use Polyquat because of the higher water temperature. According to the directions on here, we need to shock the pool and then add the polyquat when FC drops by half. If we get the pool up to shock level now, FC won’t be down to half (10) when we close in 7 days since we are only losing 1 ppm of chlorine a day. If there is no CC and the water is clear, is it really necessary to shock beforehand? Or should we just increase the chlorine to 17 instead of 20, so FC will be at half of shock level (10) in 7 days?
2. Since our pool is surrounded by trees, is there anything that we could put around the perimeter of the mesh cover to prevent leaves from blowing under the cover? This year, we opened up to a pool full of leaves because so many leaves had blown under the cover and the leaves permanently stained our pool. Since we are closing with a higher water temperature this year, I‘d like to prevent this from happening again, if possible. I thought about putting water bags along the edge of the cover but I read on here that they don’t work that well and would be expensive to buy.
3. How low can we safely lower the water level at closing since we have a fiberglass pool with a mesh cover that lets in water? Last year, we lowered it 3 inches below the bottom of the skimmer but we had to drain water out every 3-4 weeks to keep it below the tile all winter. This was a major pain. We would like to lower it more this year if it would be safe so we wouldn’t have to drain water out as often.
1. If we go ahead with the pool closing next Thursday, I assume we need to use Polyquat because of the higher water temperature. According to the directions on here, we need to shock the pool and then add the polyquat when FC drops by half. If we get the pool up to shock level now, FC won’t be down to half (10) when we close in 7 days since we are only losing 1 ppm of chlorine a day. If there is no CC and the water is clear, is it really necessary to shock beforehand? Or should we just increase the chlorine to 17 instead of 20, so FC will be at half of shock level (10) in 7 days?
2. Since our pool is surrounded by trees, is there anything that we could put around the perimeter of the mesh cover to prevent leaves from blowing under the cover? This year, we opened up to a pool full of leaves because so many leaves had blown under the cover and the leaves permanently stained our pool. Since we are closing with a higher water temperature this year, I‘d like to prevent this from happening again, if possible. I thought about putting water bags along the edge of the cover but I read on here that they don’t work that well and would be expensive to buy.
3. How low can we safely lower the water level at closing since we have a fiberglass pool with a mesh cover that lets in water? Last year, we lowered it 3 inches below the bottom of the skimmer but we had to drain water out every 3-4 weeks to keep it below the tile all winter. This was a major pain. We would like to lower it more this year if it would be safe so we wouldn’t have to drain water out as often.
