How to WINTERIZE a POOL (Save $100s) - Video

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Here’s how to close your inground pool without hiring outside help:

1. Clean your pool surfaces and your filter.
2. Then balance your pH, alkalinity, chlorine, and calcium hardness.
3. Drain your pool a few inches below the skimmer with the pump and filter off.
4. Then, blow out your lines. Remove all the return fittings, skimmer basket, and filter and pump drain plugs.
5. Set your multiport valve to recircuate and then turn the valve in front of your pump to the skimmer line.
6. Attach an air compressor to the drain opening on your pump to blow water out of your skimmer and return lines.
7. Once the water is removed, plug up your skimmer and return jets.
8. Then, turn the 3-way valve to the main drain. You should see bubbles in the deep end.
9. Run the air compressor for another minute, then shut it off.
10. Plug the inside of your pump. Set your filter to winterize.
11. Finally, add a winter algaecide or winterizing chemicals and cover your pool.

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