Swimming Pool Closing & Winterization

(General / Standard procedures.  Spa, heater, caretaker, trough, or water feature requires additional steps.)

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• Remove cover from storage and prepare for re-installation on pool

• Open deck hardware for cover (or fill up waterbags for tarp-style cover)

• Lower water (if necessary) to proper initial winterizing height

• Extract and replace deck hardware that is seized (or replace damaged waterbags)

• Remove ladders and handrails

• Remove skimmer baskets, skimmer weirs, jet nozzles, and wall fittings

• Install blowout winterizing blowout gizmos in skimmer(s)

• Teflon-tape wrap all threaded plugs

• Setup commercial / high-volume blower

• Blow all underground lines

• Cap all inlets and outlets while blowing to ensure complete evacuation of water from lines

• Check to ensure all plugs and gizmos have an airtight seal and no bubbles are escaping with blower running

• Airlock main drain / deep water liens

• Add antifreeze to skimmer line(s)

• Drain and winterize pump, filter, chlorinator, heater, and any other system components

• Cover pool and secure with deck hardware (or waterbags)

• Adjust spring / strap hardware to tighten cover, if necessary

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Atlantis Winterguard Program

(Optional winter service to help protect your pool between closing and opening.)

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• Monitor local rainfall amounts from the time your pool is winterized until the risk of freeze damage has passed in late-winter / early spring

• Drain pool, as necessary, when rainfall has put water level at or above tile line of the pool (up to 3x per winter).

• Shock pool under the cover once over winter months (regardless of rainfall) to cut down on algae growth and improve water condition at opening.

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