Pool wintering down

[george olly]

Hi Everyone

Us swallows returning to the UK for a few months. Can anyone advise on wintering down my pool. Someone said to put in some tablets in the pool every couple of weeks, my neighbour will do this for me but what are the tablets and where is the best place to buy them. I'm in the Lapta area. The pool pump has been removed. After the rain pool is up high so I'll use the submirsible pump to lower the pool Thanks in ignorance.
George

[thornaby]

Without circulation the water will stagnate and the pool go green. The tablets I think must be chlorine. Never heard of removing the pump before. I would maintain and run the pump as normal but reduce the pump runtime. Maintaining a healthy pool is something to do all year round.

[thornaby]

A very good site for pool maintenance is askallanaquestion.com.
An American site loaded with information that will adress the questions you ask.

[ttoli]

When I had my own pool , come winter, I turned the pump on for 1 hour a week and dosed it up with Chlorine , followed this routine for 8 years without a problem , then mid April/early May , a thorough scrub and vac the following day.

[charlie]

take 12" or more of water out of the pool to allow for rain . Get your neighbour to chuck in a bit of chlorine every now and then, going green shouldn't be a problem as water will be too cold for anything to grow. If it looks a bit iffy on your return just shock it.

[ElectricianPete]

Good idea to remove the pump out if your control room is liable to get waterlogged.

[george olly]

Thanks everone for your advice, most helpful as usual. My pump house always floods so that's why I remove my pump

[TB10pilot]

What a silly builder as that null and voids your insurance!

[thornaby]

I think I would be addressing the problem as to why your pump room floods, starting by checking whether my balance tank has a overflow. Bad construction is the cause of far to many and expensive to put right problems.

[thornaby]

Future to the advice about removing the pump, the real damage to a flooded pump room is not the pump motor. Motors can get a soaking and and after a drying out with perhaps a bearing and mechanical seal change, good as new. Flood the control panel and you have real problems. Transformers, relays, circuit breakers, contactor and their coils. The problems are a lot more expensive to resolve then a pump service. Resolve the leak. Don't think by removing the pump, throwing chlorine in,will make it safe!

[george olly]

Hi All

Thanks again for all tha advice. Simple fact is that the property was built over 12 years ago. All the other bungalows suffer from the same flooding problem after heavy rain, not caused by overflowing balance tank so don't know how water getting in and not prepared to lay in wait during a heavy storm, if you know what I mean. I'm now considering installing a submersible with float switch when we are away in blighty. Hey Ho and no one gets killed. North Cyprus would be pretty boring if nothing went wrong.