{"id":639,"date":"2010-11-12T18:55:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcitypools.wordpress.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2012-06-20T17:59:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T22:59:38","slug":"winterizing-dont-miss-this-important-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/winterizing-dont-miss-this-important-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Winterizing: Don\u2019t Miss This Important\u00a0Step!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Images\/BWP\/concentrated-antifreeze-small.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pool Anti-Freeze Concentrate\" \/><br \/>\nThere are many important steps in shutting your pool\u00a0down for the winter. If you live in climate with harsh conditions, making sure that you pool\u00a0plumbing is protected with anti-freeze might be the most important! After\u00a0lowering your water level and capping off your return lines, you should\u00a0always add\u00a0an anti-freeze agent through your skimmer to protect your pool\u00a0from frigid temperatures. As a standard rule of thumb, you should use\u00a0one gallon of anti-freeze per every\u00a0ten feet of distance from the pump to the pool.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/chemicals\/Pool-Anti-Freeze-Concentrate.htm\">Pool Anti-Freeze Concentrate<\/a>\u00a0is the perfect freeze prevention product because it is both effective and safe. It is non-toxic and is designed for all types of swimming pools. Because it is super concentrated, one quart mixes with three quarts of water to make one whole gallon of anti-freeze. It will protect your pool down to negative forty degrees farenheit! 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After\u00a0lowering your water level and capping off your return lines, you should\u00a0always add\u00a0an anti-freeze agent through your skimmer to protect your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[9,13],"tags":[418,154,421,221,397,399],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pool-and-spa-chemicals","category-pool-closing-and-winterizing","tag-pool-and-spa-chemicals","tag-pool-anti-freeze","tag-pool-closing-and-winterizing","tag-pool-plumbing","tag-winterize","tag-winterizing-chemicals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}