If you keep the cover on while running make sure that you are geting air movement. You don't want to burn up you motor.
Snow / Ice tonight
- Thread starter dphanes
- Start date
- May 3, 2007
- 18,105
- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
I am not a big fan of using the pump to prevent freeze damage. First is to understand the risk of freeze damage and when it is most likely to occur. Short dips (< 8hrs) below freezing are not of much concern but prolonged periods of freezing is of significant concern. When these freezing periods occur, I think it is much more prudent to drain the pad equipment rather than to rely on the pump.
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The Physics of Freezing and Freeze Protection
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...
www.troublefreepool.com
- Jul 16, 2019
- 694
- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Turbo Cell (T-CELL-5)
I know this is probably a royal PIA for you and your geography, but this looks absolutely beautiful! I've often how much I'd love to have our pool open year round in the winter here.
Trk3263
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- Dec 14, 2019
- 74
- Pool Size
- 18000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
It is nice I drop a tablet in about once a month so it doesn’t turn green like the neighbors pool and it is easy other than draining some water from time to time.
No PIA here I am a transplant and miss the snow. The nice thing about here is the roads clear themselves in a day or two so no real shoveling either.
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