How to Avoid Pool Damage Caused by Ice and Snow

Even if you never had winter ice damage to your pool it can happen to you! It strikes about 5% off all above ground pools in colder climates of the United States.

This can happen to a brand new pool as well as a 20 years young swimming pool. Although having this happen to a 20 year old pool is not to hard to take its when it happens to a brand new pool that it gets the most attention.

Around April every season insurance companies get swamped with claims form homeowners who loose their pools to ice and snow. We will suggest what homeowners in cold weather climates can do to protect their pools.

Follow these Important Off Season Tips to help prevent Winter Ice Damage from claiming your summer fun.

• It is important to keep about 1-3 inches of water on top of the cover to prevent damaged caused by wind. You can help secure your liner in place by using quick clips as there called to hold your cover to the pool frame..

• During the fall make sure to remove excess water from the top of your pool cover with a small electric pool cover pump. You can use a Frisbee to keep the pump from sucking up leaves and other junk. Its also a good Idea to keep leaves and other debris from adding weight to your cover. Remove when necessary.
  
  

• Pool Damage will occur when weight is added and allowing this to happen can displace water and thus giving you non chemically treated water in your pool. Damage to your cover can occurs as snow and ice is allowed to weigh on the pools cover it becomes stretched. As most pool covers are kept on by a cord that runs around the pool gets taught. Try your best to keep snow weight to a minimum..

• If your pool gets to a point where it might look to heavy for the cord to hold. Simply cut the cord and let the cover fall. This is a last step senario of course. But cleaning the pool from debris is easier than dealing with Insurance companies..

Never Touch a Frozen Pool!