Did you know that paying a professional pool company to winterize your backyard swimming pool can cost upwards of $500?\u00a0 With just a few items and a weekend afternoon, you can winterize your own pool for much less and save hundreds, even thousands, of dollars throughout the life of your pool.<\/p>\n
By winterizing the swimming pool, you prepare it for long months of sitting untouched.\u00a0 Because of this, the water must be chemically balanced using winterizing chemicals<\/a>, which will help prevent corrosion and scale build up over the course of the winter.\u00a0 Also, the pool must be cleaned of any dirt and debris which may have collected over the swimming season.\u00a0 Finally, a protective cover should top the pool.\u00a0 Many home owners choose a winter pool cover for their above ground pool<\/a> or in ground pool<\/a>, while others choose to cover the pool all winter with a safety cover<\/a>.\u00a0 Growing in popularity are leaf nets<\/a>, which are mesh covers that go on top of your winter cover or safety cover.\u00a0 Leaf nets collect a majority of autumn leaves and other debris and make spring clean up a breeze.<\/p>\n Click the links to find detailed instructions for how to winterize your above ground pool<\/a> or how to winterize your in ground pool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did you know that paying a professional pool company to winterize your backyard swimming pool can cost upwards of $500?\u00a0 With just a few items and a weekend afternoon, you can winterize your own pool for much less and save hundreds, even thousands, of dollars throughout the life of your pool. By winterizing the swimming […]<\/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":[9,10,13],"tags":[133,418,419,167,233,397],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pool-and-spa-chemicals","category-pool-and-spa-equipment","category-pool-closing-and-winterizing","tag-leaf-nets","tag-pool-and-spa-chemicals","tag-pool-and-spa-equipment","tag-pool-cover","tag-pool-shock","tag-winterize"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-2v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}