How to CLOSE/WINTERIZE your inground swimming pool
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Great video!! There are several different techniques to do this, but if you blow your lines out and air lock your main properly you will not need antifreeze. It only serves as a back up incase of a failed seal somewhere. It's a good idea and I am glad I used it because of a Gizmo that shifted out of place when the water froze. Instead of a Gizmo, I thread an 18" piece of schedule 88 into the skimmer box that elevates to the bottom of the skimmer lid and stuff the box full of pool noodles and a few water bottles. Don't forget to use pool noodles in the mouth of the skimmer as well if you are leaving your water that high for the auto cover to have some support for those heavy snow loads!!
Great insight. Thank you for the comment.
Great video! Why don’t you lower the water level before starting? It seems a lot of companies do that?
@@chucklakes2345 it’s totally unnecessary as long as you blow out all the lines air lock the drains them put antifreeze in them. You’re good to go.
Thank you for the video. What kind of vac blower is used?
@@stephaniewellington-sandin6547 thank you. It’s called big blue blower motor.
Finally a real pool guy blowing/plugging live with pool full. Why did you use rubbers as opposed to threaded plugs for return lines?
Haha. I I guess we’re outliers lol We just like them better. Personal preference
Great video, I feel comfortable closing my pool myself for the first time this year. One thing I don't understand: Is there a concern with keeping the compressor on and plugging all the drains and returns? Will the pressure continue to build and potentially blow a pipe?
With a compressor, yes. A vac blower only has 1 level of pressure it's blowing. so definitely be careful with a compressure
@@jonport_ Thanks for replying so quickly!
@@christophermthom anytime.
Amazing video!!! Do you do more then winterize them? I am having a problem with my pool losing compression. So the pump will slowly stop sucking. None of the lines have cracks. If I unplug the pump and wait 2 minutes and plug it back in it works again for like 5-10 minutes. Also if I shut the skimmer line off and leave just the center on it runs longer.
@@madchadgaming9539 it could be your seal on your pump lid is leaking
@@jonport_ the only area I can see any water coming out is the handle you move to flush the system (I forget the name). But it’s not a lot of water.
@@madchadgaming9539 stopped to say cause I’m not there, but I could be the reason why it’s losing air pressure
Great video! My skimmer is taking in water after I put a new skimmer winterizing plastic plate to cover the opening. We live in Montana so we get a lot of snow on the cover. Usually we leave the water level half way up the skimmer. Should I drain the water down below skimmer? This would put more pressure on the cover from snow? Do I need to put a bead of silicone around the skimmer? Maybe it has a small leak between skimmer plate and vinyl? Right now we have a gallon of antifreeze in the skimmer with the water that has seeped in.
Help it’s starting to freeze in Montana! Thanks!!!
Thanks ron🙏🏻. So you don’t want to leave the water that you normally leave it out because you think it’s leaking or you’re trying to change methods?
What’s the name/ brand for the vacuum that you are using to blowout the lines?
@@nightsaints big blue winter blower
hello, I'm looking to close my pool for the first time and am confused about where I should insert my blower attachment to blow out the return line. I have a hayward pump & sand filter. Can I feed my blower into the other end of the pump or the backwash waste port? I think the only detachable union I have is between the heater and the automatic chlorinator. I have a small semi-inground pool with 1 return and 1 skimmer. Thank you
@@Audrina-my9li after the heater is the return line so that’s where you would blow them out so if you already have a union there that’s perfect
Stupid question - any special considerations for the water that lives in the pool itself over the winter? I imagine that water will be subject to the temps and freeze at times?
Nor worries. Not at all. Pools are built to handle freeze cycles. You’re good for the majority of the US especially here in the Midwest you’re fine.
Awesome! Thanks!
@robconstantino1723 yes sir! Any time
Hello, just curious on the return lines at the bottom of the deep end how exactly do I prevent those from filling back up my return lines? Sorry I’m sure you’ve covered this but I’m thinking I missed it. Please & thank you…also can that blower be bought at a pool store or where might I attempt to vacuum the lines out? Thx!
The line on the floor are the drains, separate from the return lines. Once you blow them out you will air lock it buy shutting the valve. Hope that makes sense. Some people have those blowers or you can get them on line i believe. Definitely worth the money if you are going to do yours every year
Please can you mention which blower you used to blow skimmer and main drain? Looks like blower is powerful.
Big blue winter blower. They’re awesome
hi Jonathan can I reinstall a safety cover by myself how do you go about it ? i have a rectangle pool 16x32 so slide it into place and clip all of one side on or basically get as much springs on with hand then do rest with pole and everything will be alright with cover ? my first time installing cover on my own just bought house .
Yeah, that’ll work. Are the Pin’s already set for the Springs?
What brand name blower did you use to blow out the pool lines.
Big blue blower
I live in Georgia so it doesn’t get extremely cold. I usually run my freeze protection but I’m having trouble with my water level dropping in the spa and the jets blowing water everywhere… so this year I decided to close it. I asked a local pool company and the said that all they do is pull the plugs for all the equipment and drop the water level. So I did all that and I sucked all the water out of the skimmer lines and put antifreeze in them. But, my returns are pound in fittings so I don’t know how to plug them off they are not threaded??Hopefully what they told me is true and I won’t have any issues. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!
Rubber plugs should work? The ones i use. I wouldn’t know exactly because im not sure whats on your pool but its a pretty universal plug.
Dropping the water level will work. It’s not my favorite way to do it. It sounds like your spa is leaking. Have you tried detecting for leaks?
This looks way harder then I thought .. omg .. hope I can do this 😢
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I have been told two different things about if we have to drain the pool for the winter or not. We have an automatic cover, so the current company is saying that we do not have to drain the pool and the automatic cover will not be harmed with the weight of snow as long as we keep the suction device on the top. Is this true?
Yeah, you’ll rip your cover off the track if you do that. Snow doesn’t pump lol. You can close your pool without draining the pool. As you can see in the video, that’s all we do.
Main reason they’re probably telling you that is because it’s super old-school method is draining the pool, but we no longer do that
@@jonport_ Thats highly advised against at least where Im from. If you dont drain your pool the precipitation over the winter can actually cause your pool to overflow and turn to ice on the concrete. Ive seen it happen
@breadfan9 im from the midwest so it works here. Where are you from?
@jonport_ indiana....but I also have a mesh cover so that makes a HUGE difference
I’ve never seen a gizmo with a cap like that. Usually I connect my blower to the skimmers and push the water back to the pool pad.
Interesting. Now we just blow it from the pump and put a rubber plug in.
@@jonport_ yeah, when I blow the water from pump to skimmer, there’s always the water sitting in the skimmer since not all of it blows above and away from it. Maybe it’s my technique.
@@krehbein maybe your blower is not powerful enough. It should be blowing out a mist when it gets going full speed.
wow you REALLY need to remake this video.....i bet if any new pool owner watched this for advice theyd have a hundred questions....seems to me a lot was left out, id say more than 50%
Posiblly but for our pools we build its pretty simple to open and close.
my gizzmo doesn't have a cap so what can i do to blow out the skimmer
If it doesn’t have one, you really need to get one or get a plug that fits and put that in as it’s blowing out.
@@jonport_ but won’t that block the water from getting out of the lines
Nvm I’ll just use a blower to suck up the water then insert the gizzmo
@@SleepNotFound_ it air locks it.
@@jonport_ so first use a vacuum to blow out the pipes from the pump back, then as the water blowing out becomes mist add the gizzmo and it should be good? (I’m a new pool owner with a 40 x 20 pool)