{"id":1115,"date":"2011-10-24T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcitypools.wordpress.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2013-08-09T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T19:01:05","slug":"prevent-spring-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/prevent-spring-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevent Spring Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Images\/Swimming-Pools\/Gizzmo-In-Ground.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surprises can be fun, but not when it comes to\u00a0the backyard swimming pool.\u00a0 A cracked or damaged skimmer is one unwelcome surprise that most pool owners have had to experience over the years.\u00a0 If you prepare for the possibility of a wintertime freeze before it happens, though, you can save your skimmer and prevent unwanted surprises in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>When water in a skimmer freezes, it expands outward and often cracks or damages the skimmer.\u00a0 The\u00a0<a title=\"Skimmer Guard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/pool-maintenance\/BWP-Pool-Skimmer-Guard-NW305.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Skimmer Guard<\/a>\u00a0is a product\u00a0designed to absorb the expansion of the freeze, allowing your skimmer to last throughout the winter undamaged.\u00a0\u00a0Place a Skimmer Guard inside\u00a0each of your pool&#8217;s skimmers to absorb any expansion caused by freezing water. The freezing water will actually compress the Skimmer Guard instead of expanding outward and cracking your skimmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprises can be fun, but not when it comes to\u00a0the backyard swimming pool.\u00a0 A cracked or damaged skimmer is one unwelcome surprise that most pool owners have had to experience over the years.\u00a0 If you prepare for the possibility of a wintertime freeze before it happens, though, you can save your skimmer and prevent unwanted [&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":[10,11,13],"tags":[73,291,293],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pool-and-spa-equipment","category-pool-and-spa-maintenance","category-pool-closing-and-winterizing","tag-cracked-skimmer","tag-skimmer","tag-skimmer-guard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-hZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","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=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}