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Openings & closings
Spring on, autumn off, your date held each year
- From
- $295 an opening
- How long
- Opening half a day, closing about three hours
An opening is the cover off and the season on. We pump the water off the cover, take it off, clean it and fold it for storage, pull the winter plugs, start the pump and filter, check the heater and the salt cell, and test, shock and balance the water.
Closing runs the other way. We lower the water below the skimmer, blow every line dry and plug it, drain the equipment, add winter chemicals and fit the cover tight. A pipe that freezes with water in it cracks; a line blown properly doesn’t.
What's included
- Cover off, cleaned, folded and stored
- Plugs out, equipment started and checked
- Water tested, shocked and balanced
- Autumn: lines blown out and plugged
- Water lowered, winter chemicals added
- Cover fitted and tensioned
Typical jobs
- A safety cover off on the first warm weekend
- An above-ground pool opened after a long winter
- Closing with a heater and a salt system
- A spa winterized alongside the pool
