{"id":538,"date":"2010-09-27T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcitypools.wordpress.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2013-08-08T19:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T00:06:26","slug":"pool-skimmer-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/pool-skimmer-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Your Pool Skimmer from Freeze Damage This\u00a0Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When water freezes, it expands by approximately\u00a09%.\u00a0 When this water is in your pool skimmer, that expansion is just enough to cause damage.\u00a0 Instead of repairing or replacing your pool skimmer each spring, protect it with a Skimm\"\"er Guard<\/a> when you winterize\u00a0your in ground or above ground\u00a0pool in the fall.\u00a0 This handy\u00a0(and\u00a0affordable) little gadget is made to absorb the expansion that occurs during a freeze, so it protects your skimmer all winter\u00a0from damage caused by expanding water.\u00a0 Instead of expanding outward and cracking the skimmer,\u00a0freezing water will actually compress the Skimmer Guard.<\/p>\n

Skimmer Guard proves to be\u00a0an easy and\u00a0inexpensive\u00a0way\u00a0of saving yourself the hassle and expense of dealing with a damaged skimmer each spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 When water freezes, it expands by approximately\u00a09%.\u00a0 When this water is in your pool skimmer, that expansion is just enough to cause damage.\u00a0 Instead of repairing or replacing your pool skimmer each spring, protect it with a Skimmer Guard when you winterize\u00a0your in ground or above ground\u00a0pool in the fall.\u00a0 This handy\u00a0(and\u00a0affordable) little gadget […]<\/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":[6,10,13],"tags":[236,293],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovative-solutions","category-pool-and-spa-equipment","category-pool-closing-and-winterizing","tag-pool-skimmer","tag-skimmer-guard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-8G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}