Winterizing Your Pool With Proper Chemicals

Some of our customers insist on using liquid chlorine (shock) to winterize their pool.  They dump in a case or two of shock and then slam the cover on the pool.  The problem is that chlorine is an oxidizer and when the water is super-chlorinated and it comes in contact with the winter cover, it immediately starts chewing up the winter cover.

 Big mistake!!!  Use a professional winter kit that has components that won’t damage the cover.  Plus, most (all of ours!) have time release ‘ingredients’ that work all winter long.  Closing with proper chemicals pretty much assures a clean pool in the spring and extended life for the winter cover.  Winterizing with liquid chlorine assures that somewhere along the line, you are going to have a cover that splits out with all the gunk on top going into the pool.