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I placed a milk jug in the skimmer here. It has helped.

Sorry, I misunderstood what you said..I didn't get much sleep that morning. I will have a pool professional come out once temperature goes up. I'm leaving drain plugs off until then.

Thanks for sharing. I think sharing stories like yours is a good way for others to understand and learn from. I thought I had really prepared myself as best as I could from majority advices to keep pump running and keep ice from forming in the skimmers. Unlucky me, pump was running fine til...

The lines? I don't know what to do with them. 😟 heater, pump, and filter has been drained and the air release valve has been opened.

Curious if you all are going out at night every hour to break up ice? I'm so tired and don't know if I can do that after all day of doing it. I've thrown milk jugs and pool floaties to help.

I threw a lot of milk jug and pool floors into the pool as well. Our pool company told us to to help break up the ice if everything is shut down and water is not circulating by itself.

Here in Carrollton several pool company said to go ahead and winterize. Our neighbor just did theirs and another had to because of problems.

I don't think we can drain either. We don't have any antifreeze. Are you constantly breaking the frozen ice ? Wish for the best for you and all of us with a pool.

My power came back on right away and my system/pumps just won't turn on...sorry, it did turn on for a quick bit and stopped.

Hi, Woke up to a power outage that had gone out and went back up right away, but my pool didn't run again. We then noticed ice formed on one of the skimmers weir door and caused air to go in. We broke off the ice,, water flow back into the skimmer, pump tried to run then shut of again and...

I hope your pool is still running ok. Because of the blackout that woke me up and finding that one of my skimmers had froze and air got in. Sustem no longer working.

A gizmo? I don't have one. I saw someone said to put in a milk jug into the skimmer. I had to do this at 2am this morning because ice had formed on one of my skimmers and caused the air to go in and may have caused my system to shutdown and I couldn't get it to run again.. I had to shut...

No, I don't manually do anything. I control everything from my iaqualink. My pool tech said that it should rotate automatically like you said, but I'm watching it all day and it has not. Hmm.

Sorry, I don't have answers to your questions, but if you don't mind I ask about your freeze protection going from pool and spa. Mine is not doing that. My pool tech said it should be going back and forth like yours. I then started to research and saw this...see picture attached where it said...

Sadly, I don't know my pool equipments well enough to be messing with it right now. Are you basically saying to do a complete winterization? Since you said to turn pump off? I wonder if I'm too late with all this. Our temp has been below freezing. I'm nervous to etuen off anything at this moment.

I don't think I can drain the waterfalls. It is set by the freeze protect to run continuously as suggested by our pool builder.

Thank you for replying :)

Hi, This is my first year with a pool and we are having a few days of below freezing temperature. We have a freeze protection with filter pump ✔ to run and waterfall ✔ to run (see picture). Should I also select the pool cleaner (Polaris vacuum cleaner) to be set on freeze protect? Right now...

Thank you. These info is very helpful. I do like to play it safe and will follow the advice.

Thank you! It makes sense.

Hi. I live in DFW area and my pool is open during the winter. I'm curious what level of FC should I keep my pool at when my CYA is at 80ppm? I've been adding liquid chlorine to bring FC to 9ppm every week. After 7 days FC goes down to about 6ppm. I'm just curious if I should still follow the...

Thank you for responding. I will try your technique since I do have LED undercounter. for my sample, 4 drops was very easy to tell..it was 7.8. Unfortunately, that picture resolution was too big and I couldn't post it.

I tried all different background ( off white brick wall, the sky, natural light behind me, towards the natural light, white paper) and that was the most consistent color I can get m, and still unsure what that is. I was thinking 7.7, but mknauss thinks 7.5-7.6 ..that makes a big difference on...

Hi. I am having a hard time trying to figure out my pH level. Which pH level do you see in these pictures? I'm using Taylor k2006c test kit with recommended 5 drops of R-0004.