Hi all,
Last year I closed & opened my pool myself thanks to this site, and it went great!! This year I'm doing it a second time and I want to try switching it up just a little bit. Can you guys let me know if this sounds alright?
I live in upstate NY and it can get crazy cold, like -14ºF windchill in the dead of Winter. So I'm wondering about antifreeze... last year I:
- Blew out all the lines with my shopvac until mist sprayed out (skimmer and 2 returns)
- Put about 1 gallon into the floor drain intake pipe, by the pump, just to be safe
- I think I put like 3 gallons into the returns (enough so that antifreeze started overflowing out of the pipe.)
- Similarly filled the skimmer line with antifreeze (until it overflowed)
This year, I blew out all the lines same as last year, but only put 1 gallon of antifreeze into the skimmer line, closed the floor drain by the pump (no antifreeze) and added 1 gallon of antifreeze to the returns line. Do you think that's enough?? I'll find out in the Spring I guess.
Thanks!
-Gary
Last year I closed & opened my pool myself thanks to this site, and it went great!! This year I'm doing it a second time and I want to try switching it up just a little bit. Can you guys let me know if this sounds alright?
I live in upstate NY and it can get crazy cold, like -14ºF windchill in the dead of Winter. So I'm wondering about antifreeze... last year I:
- Blew out all the lines with my shopvac until mist sprayed out (skimmer and 2 returns)
- Put about 1 gallon into the floor drain intake pipe, by the pump, just to be safe
- I think I put like 3 gallons into the returns (enough so that antifreeze started overflowing out of the pipe.)
- Similarly filled the skimmer line with antifreeze (until it overflowed)
This year, I blew out all the lines same as last year, but only put 1 gallon of antifreeze into the skimmer line, closed the floor drain by the pump (no antifreeze) and added 1 gallon of antifreeze to the returns line. Do you think that's enough?? I'll find out in the Spring I guess.
Thanks!
-Gary