How to properly prepare your swimming pool for winter?

When the winter season approaches, winterizing a shell pool allows you to prepare your pool for the winter in order to preserve the water and facilities until the return of the good weather. Depending on the harshness of the winter in the region you live in, you can opt for passive wintering or active wintering. In both cases, it is important to do everything possible to ensure that the pool shell does not get damaged during wintering . 

Prepare your swimming pool for winter with passive wintering

Preparing your pool for winter with this technique means stopping the filtration, cleaning and maintenance of the water and the pool. To do this, you must: 

• deep clean the pool;
• shock treat the water so that it is perfectly healthy;
• lower the water level;
• drain and winterize the pool filtration system to properly prepare your pool for winter;
• add a winterizing product as well as floats and gizmos to the skimmer basket;
• put in place a winter cover.

Prepare your pool for winter with active wintering

The active wintering technique involves maintaining water filtration during the cold season, but at a fairly low rate, around 2 hours/day on average. It is simpler than passive wintering . To prepare your pool for winter, you just need to: 

• pour a winterizing product into the pool at the start of winter and repeat the operation if necessary;
• regularly check the pH and water balance;
• create movement in the water to prevent freezing 
• Set the frost protection box so that it automatically starts the pump when the pool water reaches a certain temperature.

By using this method to prepare your pool for winter , it is not mandatory to cover it with a winter cover.