My frozen-ish pool and some observations. Would like opinions.
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gfycat.comPosted Jan 2, 2018, 8:03 PM UTC
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gfycat.com"Before" pic https://imgur.com/a/AsyMJ
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At least your pool is still clear blue! Mine is green and partly frozen and running nonstop. Yay electricity bill!!
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I use a perma-salt system and it couldn't be easier to maintain. We love it.
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i am a pool guy and i love salt just keep the ph in check
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Yeah, I turned off my chlorine generator two months ago. Oh well.
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That's a pool.
(that's my professional opinion).
You'll freeze your ass off jumping in that thing!
(that's a physical fact).
:)
Looks like fun in the summer time, though! (conjecture... my bad)
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Throw in an inflatable or two partly blown up with some weight in them, this'll stop the ice forming a complete slab so there's less chance of it cracking the edges
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hey my pools covered in 15 inches of snow so enjoy
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temps around here are supposed to go above freezing for a week. once I get full-thaw, I'm putting barrels in the pool. much luck to you and stay warm!
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thanks, I am pretty used to winterizing. all the lines are filled with anti freeze.
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So we're having quite the cold snap in the Southeast. Went outside to find my running pool completely iced over. Realized it was mostly my fault since the skimmer basket was clogged with leaves. I cleared the leaves, left the pump on low overnight and the water flow created the "valley" of water in my "before" picture. I was mostly worried about the ice expanding and screwing up my walls. My initial plan was to get heat tape and apply it to the PVC pipes but my engineer friend suggested I just bust it up. As it is now, I figure there is not much strain on the walls since there is water flowing underneath the ice. Any other suggestions would be great! I still HATE having 14,000 gallons of water in my back yard but Wife likes it so....
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Do you think we empty our above ground pools every winter up here in Canada?
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No. I've seen some pretty cool videos with lots of ice in these pools. I'm a newbie pool-owner and still freaked out about managing that much water lol.
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The walls will be fine, your concern is expanding ice damaging the equipment. Let it run until the cold snap is over and you won't have any issues.
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i am a pool guy also. frozen pipes is your worry pool_guy where u from i am from massachusetts
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Toronto.
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shot season eh
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Update: So I got it thawed and everything was fine. I turned it off for one night and it froze again. The ice broke the lid latch to my leaf basket. Have a new leaf basket on the way from Amazon. Hopefully everything else survived. Assuming everything else is ok, once I get everything back together and running, I plan to keep it running on low the rest of the winter with a couple Pilates balls floating around to hopefully keep the ice at bay. Sounds good in my head anyway lol. I love Amazon.
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My opinion: Jump in wearing a tux with a glass of champagne and make a Happy New Years card and become Internet Famous! =D
Join the polar bear club! In Germany, we would sit in the dry sauna, at 100C. Then run out and jump through the ice into 1C water! Great fun (I didn't say in the water too long, but headed back to Sauna!)