{"id":1096,"date":"2011-10-03T13:08:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T18:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcitypools.wordpress.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2011-10-03T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T18:08:48","slug":"the-importance-of-cover-pumps-for-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/the-importance-of-cover-pumps-for-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Cover Pumps for Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Images\/Little-Giant\/Cover-Pump-1-AA-18.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to make\u00a0the\u00a0swimming pool cover pump a\u00a0priority\u00a0when you winterize your swimming pool this year. A\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Swimming Pool Cover Pumps\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Pool-Pumps\/Pool-Cover-Pumps.htm\" target=\"_blank\">swimming pool cover pump<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0drains the water that collects on your winter pool cover over the\u00a0off-season months. If accumulated water is not regularly removed by a cover pump, the weight of that excess water can damage your winter pool cover or pull the cover into the water below. Either way, you&#8217;ll be in for a messy clean up when spring rolls around again.<\/p>\n<p>Cover pumps are available in manual models and automatic models. <strong>Manual cover pumps<\/strong> require that you monitor the pump&#8217;s progress and unplug it when the water is drained. <strong>Automatic cover pumps<\/strong>, often preferred by pool owners, sense\u00a0and automatically start when water is detected on the cover.\u00a0 They also turn off automatically once the water has been drained.<\/p>\n<p>By simply adding\u00a0a cover pump to your regular winterizing procedure, you can\u00a0extend\u00a0the life of your winter pool cover and save yourself money and effort at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be sure to make\u00a0the\u00a0swimming pool cover pump a\u00a0priority\u00a0when you winterize your swimming pool this year. A\u00a0swimming pool cover pump\u00a0drains the water that collects on your winter pool cover over the\u00a0off-season months. If accumulated water is not regularly removed by a cover pump, the weight of that excess water can damage your winter pool cover or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[69,351,392],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pool-and-spa-equipment","category-pool-closing-and-winterizing","tag-cover-pumps","tag-swimming-pool-cover-pumps","tag-winter-covers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-hG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}