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The Complete Guide to Pool Closing

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Let’s talk pools. As much as we love enjoying a good swim in the summer, we can’t ignore the winter months looming ahead. Pool closing is all about making sure your pool gets through the winter without a hitch and is ready to dive back into action when the warmer days roll around again. We’re all about ensuring that pool closing isn’t just done but done right, keeping your pool in top shape all year long.

Understanding the Importance of Pool Closing

Think of closing your pool as tucking it in for a long winter’s nap. It’s more than just a cover and a wave goodbye until spring. It’s about keeping the pool safe, preventing any unwelcome winter damage, and making sure everything is good to go when swimming season comes back. Closing your pool the right way means you’re looking out for its condition, dodging unnecessary repair costs, and keeping everything safe and secure during the colder months.

When to Consider Pool Closing

Timing your pool closing doesn’t need to be a guessing game. As long as you pay attention to a few key things like the weather and how much you’re actually using it. If you’re dealing with harsh, cold winters, it’s smart to get a jump on pool closing before the first freeze shows up. If your winters are a bit more mild, you can enjoy a few extra weeks of pool time before saying see you later.

The Fox Pools Approach to Pool Closing

Navigating through the steps of pool closing is a breeze with Fox Pools. We’ve got the know-how and hands-on experience to make sure your pool is taken care of the way it deserves. Our approach combines a deep understanding of different pool types with the right closing techniques tailored just for you. Whether we’re balancing water chemistry or putting on the winter cover, our skilled team makes pool closing smooth and straightforward. With a track record of satisfied customers and successful pool closings, Fox Pools prioritizes effectiveness and care in every service we offer.

How to Winterize your Swimming Pool

Detailed Pool Closing Process

  1. Balancing the Water Chemistry: Keeping pH levels, alkalinity, and calcium hardness in check helps avoid corrosion and scale build-up.
  2. Cleaning and Backwashing the Filter: A clean filter is key to maintaining clear water and avoiding contamination during the off months.
  3. Lowering the Water Level: Adjusting the water level helps avoid freeze damage and keeps the cover supported.
  4. Winterizing the Plumbing: Blowing out pipes and using antifreeze keeps things from bursting in the cold.
  5. Installing a Winter Pool Cover: A sturdy cover keeps out debris and protects your pool from the winter weather.
  6. Additional Steps: We customize additional steps to match specific pool types and customer needs, ensuring thorough protection and an easy opening in the spring.

Post-Closing Maintenance Tips

Just because the pool is closed doesn’t mean it’s out of mind! Proper post-closing maintenance plays a crucial role in ensuring your pool reopens in great shape come spring. Keeping the cover clean is your first task. A tidy cover means less mess and potential problems when it’s time to unveil your pool again.

 

Next, keep an eye on that water chemistry – maintaining the right balance, even during winter, safeguards against potential damage. Lastly, those winterizing components need a check-up now and then to confirm they’re holding firm and doing their job protecting your pool.

Planning Your Pool Opening

Peering ahead to warmer days, planning your pool opening can be as smooth as those first summer swims. A crucial first step: schedule your opening early with your pool professionals. We always recommends an early scheduling to ensure timely service and to tackle any surprises that winter may have left behind. Once the cover comes off, a thorough pool inspection, maintenance, and any necessary repairs should be on the agenda. This will ensure that when it’s time to dive in, your pool is safe, clean, and ready to enjoy!

Why Choose Fox Pools for Your Pool Closing

Now, you might be wondering, why choose Fox Pools? It’s about the peace of mind that comes from knowing your pool is in expert hands. Our customers often tell us how reassuring it is to have a team that not only understands the technicalities of pool maintenance but also values their investment as much as they do.

 

When you choose Fox Pools, you’re opting for a team that brings reliability, skill, and a genuine care for your pool and peace of mind to the table. So, when considering your next pool closing, why not give Fox Pools a call? Your pool – and future self – will thank you.

Conclusion

Navigating through the phases of pool ownership, especially through the quiet winter months, doesn’t have to be a solo journey. From the comprehensive steps in closing your pool to keeping it in top shape during the off-season, and then joyfully reopening it, every step matters. Pool closing, with its layered processes and precautionary steps, is more than a chore—it’s a safeguarding of your delightful summer days ahead.

 

Choosing Fox Pools for your expert pool closing services isn’t just opting for a service. It’s choosing reliable pool maintenance and a team that truly understands and respects your leisure and investment. It’s choosing a partner to navigate through the closed pool signs of winter, straight into the open, inviting waters of summer. So, when it’s time to close, maintain, or reopen your pool, Fox Pools is here, ready to ensure your pool is always in its best shape, season after season.

A Guide to Properly Opening and Closing Your Pool

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You’ve created a resort in your own backyard. The neighbors are green with jealousy over your luxurious backyard pool. When summer rolls around, everyone wants to come to your place for barbecues, parties, and unforgettable times. But there’s a terrible price to pay for being the place where good things happen, which is maintenance. Every person who owns a pool knows how important it is to open and close it down at the end of each season. You can save money on repairs and maintenance by following the correct procedures for opening and closing your pool.

A Guide to Properly Opening and Closing Your Pool

Fox Pools offers these services as part of a full seasonal package that includes pool opening and closings, as well as repairs.

Closing Your Pool

You need to remember that closing the pool is the same as winterizing. It’s trickier than the opening and needs more prep work. When water freezes, its volume increases, causing significant stress on the pipes and other equipment. This happens if you don’t blow them out or drain them properly. Before closing your pool, you need to have your water professionally tested and balanced at your local pool store. Most places do testing for free!

Some of the most important things we do during pool closings are:

·       Get rid of the pool toys, leaves, and debris.

·       Add winterizing chemical kits with the appropriate dosage

·       Lower your water level to the appropriate point to account for rainfall.

·       Prepare your lines and machinery for the winter. This includes blowing out all the lines with a high-pressure air blower and capping them off.

·       Remove handrails, ladders, and other accessories

·       Clean your DE or cartridge filter.

·       Put on the cover for the winter.

Opening Your Pool

Like most people, you undoubtedly have mixed feelings about opening your pool. There’s no need to dread opening your own pool each spring. Every spring, we use the same techniques and equipment to open hundreds of pools of varying sizes and shapes.

Here are the important procedures we follow while opening your pool for the swimming season:

·       First, clean the pool cover of any debris, leaves, dirt, etc.

·       If any water has accumulated on the pool cover, empty it.

·       Remove and store the cover.

·       Assembly your system and start the filtering process.

·       Vacuum the pool with 2 different types of vacuums, brush, and net.

·       Shock pool and add algaecide.

·       This is just a one-day visit with no follow-up cleanings and no chemical balancing. It is expected the customer will take over for the follow-up cleanings and have the water tested at your local pool store.

Let’s look at some reasons why you should hire a contractor to close your pool:

It makes pool opening easier

Since closing the pool maintains hygienic conditions, you won’t need to do as much to get the pool opened again. A clean and balanced pool is essential to an easy pool opening.

This helps maintain the purity of the pool water

The most noticeable advantage of winterizing your pool is the ability to maintain pristine water conditions. After emptying the pool of trash and using the right chemicals, you can cover it without further concern for contamination. A vacation from daily pool maintenance for a number of months is another perk.

Your family will be safer as a result

The use of a cover for the pool’s surface is an integral part of the closing process. A pool cover may look like a tarp to some, but most are quite sturdy and can carry quite a bit of weight. It helps protect your kids or pets against a potential fall or injury from this.

Your pool equipment will be safe from harm

The cost of the pool itself is substantial, as is the potential cost of the necessary equipment. Properly opening and closing your pool prevents frozen pipes and other damage to your pool’s equipment when you’re not using it.

A Guide to Properly Opening and Closing Your Pool

Important information regarding opening and closing your pool

Pool closing

Using high-powered blowers, we drain the pool to the bottom of the skimmer, seal off the plumbing lines, clean the filter, clean the pool of leaves and debris, put away the ladders, and cover the pool. We can also supply and add the necessary chemical kits for winterizing at this time.

Pool opening

Your pool cover will be taken off, and stored while we reinstall the pool’s ladders and handrails and reassemble the pool system. We’ll also run a series of tests to ensure everything is working. When we open a pool, we clean the pool with two different vacuums, a brush, and a net. We also add the needed shock and algaecides. We do not do any follow-up cleaning or balancing, the opening is a one day event. Clients should take charge of this part of the pool opening process. In most cases, this results in significant financial and time savings for them. In case you need any assistance or have any questions about opening and closing your pool, we’re here to help.

Let the professionals handle opening and closing your pool.

The process of opening and closing your pool can be time-consuming and laborious. Ignoring even the smallest of details might result in significant losses. Avoid this hassle by signing up for expert pool closing services. Ensure the safety of your pool and family by scheduling the opening and closing of your pool with Fox Pools today. Contact us today!

Pool Closing Service

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Pool Closing Service

Our pool closing service is the absolute best way to protect your swimming pool. With our complete winterization service you’ll have the peace of mind in knowing that your swimming pool will be safe during the winter and in ready to use condition next season.

Our Pool Winterization / Pool Closing Service Includes:

Let the experts at Fox Pools help you properly close down your pool for the off-season.

Complete Pool Closing Winterization Service $150

  • Removing all leaves and debris from the swimming pool
  • Backwashing the filtration system
  • Draining your pool pump and heater
  • Plugging the returns and skimmers
  • Removing and storing all deck equipment (ladders, handrails, etc…)
  • Inspecting and installing a pool safety cover
  • Blowing off the pool deck area and equipment pad
  • Adding winterizing chemicals

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When Should You Close Your Pool?

One of the most common pool maintenance questions we get asked is, “When should I close my pool?”.

Typically most pool owners look to close their swimming pool down for the season shortly after Labor Day. The primary reason is that with children going back to school and the cooler autumn months around the corner, most home owners just don’t see as much use out of their swimming pool after September. Unless you have a pool heater and plan to extend your swim season a bit, the uninviting temperature of the water can make keeping your pool operational after Labor Day more trouble then it’s worth. When the water temperature is constantly below 60 degrees, it is prudent to close your pool.

Winterize your pool will help protect it from freezing. Pool closing service helps prevent damage.

Winterizing your pool will help protect it from freezing. Pool closing service helps prevent damage.

Closing your pool alleviates the worry about your pump or filter equipment freezing once winter comes. Draining the water out of the system (but not the actual swimming pool itself) is part of winterizing your pool and getting it closed for the off-season.

Why You Should Close Your Swimming Pool In The Off-Season

The easiest approach to protect your pool investment is to close it for the season from September to October. An early freeze in November or December can quickly damage your pool and it will be far too late to close it by then if that happens. Closing your pool in the off-season will make the start of next season a breeze. To make the water swimmable again, you’ll need fewer chemicals. By adopting preventative actions, you can even extend the life of pool surfaces and your pool equipment. It takes a little extra effort, but it’s nothing compared to how much labor it will be to open your pool again next summer if you don’t close it properly.

Avoid a dirty pool in the summer by closing your pool in the off-season.

Avoid a dirty pool in the summer by closing your pool in the off-season.

Consider that for a moment. While your pool is left open all summer, leaves, bugs, twigs, and anything else that may blow in are likely to end up in the water. The entire summer is spent removing all of those items from the water before they have a chance to settle and decay in the water if the swimming pool is being used frequently and actively maintained.

Consider what would happen if you left your pool exposed all winter, but didn’t use it, skim it, brush it, or vacuum it every day. All of that material, plus more, would be wreaking havoc; clogging the skimmer, and messing with the chemistry of your pool.

When the time comes to reopen your pool, you would have a lot of work ahead of you just to get it swimmable again. It’s possible to avoid all of that simply by closing your pool for the season; it’s a low maintenance strategy towards protecting your pool. Installing a pool safety cover and winterizing your swimming pool for the off-season is the #1 way to ensure that your swimming pool will be protected from the elements and be in ready-to-swim condition with a minimal amount of pool service or chemical maintenance in order to open in next season.