If you have a swimming pool at home, you likely give your pool a break during the winter season. After all, the cold of winter isn’t suitable for outdoor swimming. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean you can ignore your pool completely during this time. There is a lot of swimming pool maintenance that needs to be done during winter.
Keep Your Swimming Pool Covered
When you aren’t using your swimming pool, you should put a cover over it. This way, debris won’t land in the pool. By keeping debris out of your swimming pool, you can stop stains from developing, allowing your pool to maintain its appearance throughout the year.
Balance Your Pool Water
Most pool owners will not drain their pools as winter arrives. With that said, even when you aren’t using your pool, that doesn’t mean you can ignore balancing the chemicals in your pool water.
Roughly every other month, you’ll want to check the chemical balance of your pool water. By keeping your chemical balance in check, you prevent algae and bacteria from developing, which helps get your pool ready to use once the weather warms up again.
Inspect Pool Components
While you might not use your pool during winter, the different parts of your pool don’t take the winter off. Therefore, you’ll need to check on them to ensure they keep working as they should. Components of your pool that will need inspecting include your pump, filter, and heater (if you have one).
You should also look around your pool to see if there’s any excess water near your pool parts. This water can freeze during winter, and if the water is around your pipes, it can cause pipe cracking.
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