Our pool backs to a farm so we get a lot of mice, raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, and other critters in our yard and they like to chew on the pool equipment over the winter when the equipment isn't running. Two years ago, something chewed on the sand filter drain pipe and we ended up having to replace the sand filter upon opening because we couldn’t get it to stop leaking. Last year, we noticed that something had been chewing on the multiport that sits on top of the sand filter because there were bite marks all around it. We wrapped a thick garbage bag around the multiport at closing and nothing chewed on it over the winter.
We put a thick plastic cap with a hole on the end on the sand filter drain pipe to protect it. We can tell that some critter chewed on that cap over the winter last year but the cap protected it from damage.
We’ve got a brand new expensive Pentair Superflo variable speed pump and I’m worried that some critter is going to chew on it over the winter and damage it. What can we do to protect our expensive new pump from being chewed on by critters over the winter? Is there something that we can put around the pump to prevent critters from chewing on it? We really don’t want to bring the pump inside because we don’t want to have to pay someone to uninstall it, plug up the holes in the pipes so mice can’t get in, and reinstall the pump in the spring unless we have no other alternative. Uninstalling the pump, plugging up the holes so mice can't get in the pipes, and reinstalling the pump in the spring is not something that my husband and I feel comfortable doing so I hope someone on here has some suggestions for us.
We’ve got a brand new expensive Pentair Superflo variable speed pump and I’m worried that some critter is going to chew on it over the winter and damage it. What can we do to protect our expensive new pump from being chewed on by critters over the winter? Is there something that we can put around the pump to prevent critters from chewing on it? We really don’t want to bring the pump inside because we don’t want to have to pay someone to uninstall it, plug up the holes in the pipes so mice can’t get in, and reinstall the pump in the spring unless we have no other alternative. Uninstalling the pump, plugging up the holes so mice can't get in the pipes, and reinstalling the pump in the spring is not something that my husband and I feel comfortable doing so I hope someone on here has some suggestions for us.
