Frozen pool

[kywildcats]

This is my third winter with the pool, and the first year it ever froze solid. It is starting to thaw, and some areas have no ice, while other areas are still pretty frozen. I have water standing on the cover now, so my question is, should I pump it off now, or wait until everything unfreezes? Should I be concerned about jagged edges of ice if I lay my pump on the cover? Going to be about 60 here the next two days, then back below freezing for the weekend.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

I'd say give it a day if it is going to get so warm and then toss the cover pump on to get whatever liquid it will off. Avoid whatever ice is left if any at that temp.

Maddie

 

[kywildcats]

Just got it all pumped off this morning, just in time for possibly 1/4 inch of ice, 1 inch of sleet, and a couple inches of snow. It is 62 right now, and when the front moves through it will drop to the low 20s this evening. I HATE winter!!!!

 

[Tbone2087]

We had similar weather in Memphis. Next year, I am going to correctly close the pool!

 

[Phil_C]

Here's my pool (cropped my kid's face out for privacy.) We close it. We've never had a problem with it hurting anything freezing over. It was many inches thick at this point.

 

[kywildcats]

Amazing how clean that water looks without being covered for the winter. I hate looking at my cover! Apparently you don't drain below the skimmer, so what do you use in that for protection against ice? I use an ultra gizmo and a couple pieces of pool noodle in mine.

 

[PoolguyinCT]

I have a few that do uncovered, led light shows are awesome.

 

[domct203]

Here's my pool (cropped my kid's face out for privacy.) We close it. We've never had a problem with it hurting anything freezing over. It was many inches thick at this point.

Hmm, That pretty interesting how the edge of the pool is casting a shadow, but the person who is in that picture does not cast a shadow.

How does that happen?

 

[Perpetual summer]

Photoshopped for sure

 

[kywildcats]

If you look at it, the shadows are coming to the left at the side of pool. You can see the shadow of the stair rail is there. The boys shadow is starting to show in the lower left hand corner of picture.

 

[Phil_C]

Absolutely not photoshopped (what would I have to gain by doing that?). I thought it looked like that when my wife sent it to me too but it's just a quick pic taken by a Samsung phone. From that perspective rail would be to the right with shadows going to the left. The pool is blue fiberglass and it froze super clear. We had some weeks down into single digits, but no snow or anything so it just froze. Since it's closed there's no motion going on in the pool.

 

[kywildcats]

Phil, please tell me what you did to protect your skimmer in these conditions?

 

[Phil_C]

I'm not totally sure as a company does the work. When they close the pool they drain it down to a level that is just below the skimmer opening but one of the jets is below that level. The other jet has a pipe at 90 degrees sticking up just above the water level. I wish I could be more help but I'm just not sure exactly what all they do.

 

[erhanuyar]

Mine got frozen as well, lucky or unlucky for me that there was also ice formed in the skimmer, since all the antifreeze actually disappeared from a crack. It is the second crack on the skimmer bottom so i think I will replacing the skimmer before opening for the season, so I am not really sad about it.