freeze

We are in southeast Texas and don’t do freezing and snow….but will be next week. We have a new 15,000 gallon hard side, hard plumbed, semi inground AGP with SWG. We do not winterize as we sometimes swim in December. We have had AGP for over 25 years but all soft sided and easy to prepare for...

I'm in North Texas and when checking on the pool equipment during our freeze here I noticed that quite a bit of ice formed around the pool pump. I obviously have a leak, but I'm surprised how big it seems from the amount of ice that formed. I didn't notice much moisture around the pump when I...

This is my first winter with a pool and am not sure about the circulation.... Saltwater, chemicals are all balanced, pool is covered, I removed the cleaner, put a couple chlorine tabs in a floater and put the floater in the skimmer. I have a VSP and the pump, cleaner, and waterfall are all set...

The coil in our Hayward HP21003T heat pump installed around 2009 and heating our 14,000 gal lap pool since we bought the house in 2015 turned into a block of ice a few days ago. The display showed "defrost" mode. I shut down the heat pump, let it thaw out, and started it back up. The...

I hope I'm in the right location. New pool owner and we have several days of freezing weather coming. Last year we were without power for 4 days and I didn't have the pool then. I've since setup my home to have my new generator to power my electric panels and have my inground propane tank to...

It's time to replace the deteriorating and getting louder by the day single speed pump. It is currently plumbed with the return line tucked nearly against the pump housing. The Superflow VS that is replacing it is too wide for that arrangement by about 4 inches or so. Two options I'm...

First time pool owner. I have an in ground pool with a Jandy variable speed pump. Tonight a cold front has moved in with significant wind chill taking us down to freezing temps. I’m wondering if my settings are correct to prevent freezing of my pipes. I live in central TX area. Thank you.

So I’ve got a 16 foot prism frame intex pool. I’m still undecided on whether or not to leave it up and winterize or take it down for the winter. What is everyone’s experience in cold climate cities. I know that the manufacturer says to take down in cold climate but they also say taking down runs...

Hi, I am in DFW area, temperature was below 10 degree and our power went out overnight(pump was running all the time before outage) I realized outage in the morning, i shut the pump power from breaker, i opened the drain plug of the pump strainer pot and put it back very loose so the water can...

This is my first pool in a house I just bought... So I know very little about this stuff. Any help is much appreciated for this Houston newbie... I read that to prepare for the winter storm I should leave the pump and waterfall running to prevent water from freezing in the pipes and...

Hi all, like most in the south I am going through the freeze. I’m about 40 miles north of Houston, TX. We lost power at 0500 this morning and once we learned it wasn’t a rolling blackout at about 0800 this morning, I drained the pump (Pentair WhisperFlo), booster pump, and filter (Pentair...

Brief rundown of what I’m doing.. I insulated and tarped my equipment before the worst weather came. Small incandescent lamp in there. Checked last night and the enclosure I made was 32 degrees when the outside air was 10 with wind chill at -6.Pool water is down to 38. And now what I want to...

The title says it all: I'm very stressed about my inground pool/spa combo (spa is attached), given that it's likely we'll set an all time low temp for the area overnight tomorrow. I'm running both main and aux pumps continuously (have freeze protection enabled), but have a question regarding...

I have a couple of questions. It's getting cold here in Houston and I've noticed that my blower was set to come on with the pumps for freeze protection, which was bubbling over the sides of the spa and causing the us to lose water. I've turned off the blower as part of the freeze protection...

Hello! Texan here! We have an in-ground pool with 3 fountains. It has been below freezing this season around 20 and 30 degrees, but this Monday it is supposed to be SEVEN degrees (yes 7 degrees here in Leander, Texas!!!) and only 19 degrees during the day. We have an automatic temperature timer...

Just moved to North Carolina to a house with a pool. Around here about half of pools run all winter. We decided to give it a try. Equipment pad is over a foot above pool level, so all water in the pool lighting conduits is below frost (1 foot). All good. The problem is the spa. Water there...

I’m curious what you think about a hybrid closing I’m thinking about: For 2 winters (in Virginia), I’ve left the pool open all winter. However, I spend more time maintaining it in the winter than I do in the summer = Constantly scooping out twigs & decomposed leaves, empty skimmers, run...

We have a Hayward OmniLogic controller for our pumps, heaters and valves. We are in middle Tennessee and we run our pool year-round, but stop hearing when night-time temps dip below the 50s. Our OmniLogic controller automatically turns our pumps on when the air temp drops below 40. However, the...

So this is the 2nd major problem we've had. The first was a slice in the flex pipe that wasn't noticed during installation. A season of lost water and torn up concrete to fix the leak. This was the builders fault and he fixed it - Questions about a possible leak....#frustrated I closed the...