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Now that 2011 is coming to a close, have you started thinking about what your New Year’s resolutions will be?\u00a0 If you own a backyard swimming pool, will any of those resolutions include a plan to open up your pool sooner in 2012 rather than waiting until the swimming season has long begun?<\/p>\n
Part of what makes this kind of resolution successful is to start planning early for opening the pool.\u00a0 Take the time now to check your existing\u00a0stock of pool chemicals<\/a>, and keep an eye out for off-season sales so you can nab these necessities at the best prices.<\/p>\n Take a look, too, at your pool equipment to evaluate whether it may be time to replace or upgrade items like the pool pump<\/a>, pool heater<\/a>, or pool covers<\/a>.\u00a0 Test your pool alarm<\/a> while you’re at it\u00a0to be sure that it is still in good working order.<\/p>\n New Year’s resolutions like these can be accomplished easily and with little stress involved, especially if you enlist the help of family members. \u00a0Make a short list of tasks you’d like to accomplish in order to get your pool opened in a timely fashion, and stick to it.\u00a0 Before you know it, the warm weather will return, and you’ll be ready to relax by the poolside instead of scrambling to complete pool-opening tasks.<\/p>\n Now that 2011 is coming to a close, have you started thinking about what your New Year’s resolutions will be?\u00a0 If you own a backyard swimming pool, will any of those resolutions include a plan to open up your pool sooner in 2012 rather than waiting until the swimming season has long begun? Part of […]<\/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":[4,9,10,11,12,15],"tags":[425,160,171,194,212,222],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-and-gift-ideas","category-pool-and-spa-chemicals","category-pool-and-spa-equipment","category-pool-and-spa-maintenance","category-pool-and-spa-safety","category-pool-opening","tag-pool-alarms","tag-pool-chemicals","tag-pool-covers","tag-pool-heaters","tag-pool-opening-2","tag-pool-pumps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-iL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","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=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Relax](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dreamstime.com\/pool-relax-thumb13132645.jpg?resize=320%2C214&ssl=1\" "\\"Relaxing")
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