ice

Ok all, panic mode officially set in. I have a solid cover yet the ice level in my pool has rised up to the aluminum bullnose coping and is about 2 inches from completely overflowing with ice. I have a vinyl liner with liner lock around the entire track and the old style aluminum bullnose...

I used a pool company to close my pool this year. I live in Philadelphia and it’s been a pretty cold winter. They used an aquadoor for the skimmer face with a gizmo installed. Today I noticed solid ice in the skimmer body all the way up to the top of the gizmo. Is this something I need to...

Hey all, new to the forum but loving it so far. Wife talked me into an 18 ft AGP up here in Canada. Been enjoying it the last few weeks but it's already starting to cool off here in the great white north so I'm starting to get the prep work done and materials in order to close the pool in a...

Hi guys, So i've run into my first problem. i've got an AGP, steel sided hybrid. Vinyl liner of course. I had the water maybe 6" below the inlet when i put the pillow in and the cover on. Usually no issues throughout winter, but this year i think there've been enough freeze/thaws that extra...

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...

Hi All, As I prepare for my first closing on my own, I've been reading up on what to put in my skimmer. My PB closed the pool last year and used these 16ish inch Skim Insure gizmo-like tubes (https://www.amazon.com/CMP-Blowout-Winter-Skimmer-Guard/dp/B005IZPJB2). They worked well (you can...

I have a ~16ft x 32ft in ground vinyl pool and I live in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada where temperatures reach -40C = -40F in the winter. Because of these impressively low numbers I drain the pool below the skimmer and below the return lines (have to drop the water level ~3ft to do this). I...

Replaced pool liner for 40'x20' inground Lazy-L back in 2015. Last Oct I lowered the water to about 10" below the returns instead of the normal 2"-3". Everything fine up until 25-Dec when i looked out and saw that the water had dropped sharply - down to maybe 2" of water on the shallow end...

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...

Hi all! Have spent a lot of time reading the forums and looking at pictures of everyone's beautiful pools. I'm trying to decide between two very different waterline tiles: a 2 x 3 glass tile (NPT's Sea Ice in Silver) and a 6 x 6 porcelain tile (NPT's Oceans in Marine). Does anyone have pics of...

I have a sag in my liner where several of the liner track screws have given way. We have had a super wet winter here in the NE, so the pool level is very high. It was actually very close to going behind the liner where it's sagging. Today I wanted to drain some what from the pool to prevent...