Winterise your pool
When the temperature drops in the winter months, keeping your swimming pool open can be costly and time-consuming. We recommend you winterise your swimming pool to save on time, chemicals and electricity costs – especially when it’s too cold to use.
Pools without a Froststat
Step 1 – Clean swimming pool
Step 2 – Lower swimming pool level
Step 3 – Chemicalise swimming pool
Step 4 – Swimming pool debris cover on
Step 5 – Isolate swimming pool power
Step 6 – Drain swimming pool equipment
Pools with a Frostat
Step 1 – Clean swimming poolpool
Step 2 – Chemicalise swimming pool
Step 3 – Swimming pool debris cover on
Step 4 – Adjust swimming pool equipment timers
Step 5 – Test swimming pool Froststat
Every month
• Check water swimming pool level & chemistry
• Clean the swimming pool debris cover and the edge overlap
• If using a swimming pool Froststat – clean the swimming pool pump basket and backwash the filter
• If the swimming pool level is high – lower it by turning the multi-port valve to waste or if the equipment has been drained use a submersible pump to pump to waste.
Swimming Pool Winterizing Chemicals
• Shock treat the swimming pool water with sodium hypochlorite (liquid shock chlorine) or calcium hypochlorite (granular shock chlorine) with the recommended dose for your swimming pool volume.
• Check and re-adjust the pH using pH minus/plus adjusters.
• Add the winterizing fluid (long term algaecide).
Winterising:
We use and recommend Cleaner Winter algaecide, specifically formulated for closing your pool for winter. It’s better than similar products as it uses a highly effective non-copper based, slow-release algaecide, while also having a stain inhibitor included to reduce stains and marks left by leaves or debris if they get into your pool over the winter. Cleaner Winter also helps eliminate stain-causing metals and minerals that can leave you with costly liner stains or hard-to-clean waterline build-up in your swimming pool over the winter.
