Potential hard feeze next week with temps in the teens and not rising above freezing for a couple days. Should I just drop the water level to below the ground level of the main drain? Stupid question - At what temp willl the pump freeze regarless if it is running? Anything I need to be careful of if I drain maybe 2 feet from an 8 foot pool?
Partial drain for freeze in Houston?
- Thread starter Birdman75
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
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- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
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Draining will not protect pumps, filter or heaters that are not properly winterized following manufacturer instructions.
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Recently, there have been a lot of questions from those living in moderate climates about using automatic freeze protection or running pumps to prevent freezing and what a pool owner should do when temperatures drop so I thought it might be useful to have a thread which dealt with the issue from...
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Draining will not protect pumps, filter or heaters that are not properly winterized following manufacturer instructions.
