Thanks, I have plenty of ventilation as my pool equipment is out in the corner of my property and not even close to the house.
While using a heater has it advantages, it may not be completely fool proof to prevent freezing when the electricity is out.
Thanks, yes I am completely familiar with my pool equipment as I do all the servicing myself. I have replaced the pump, motor installed new plumbing, do my own filter cleaning, installed new heater capacitor etc etc. so I am very familiar with all the drain plugs.
That works good here as well, since the freezes are far between warmer days. There's still plenty of ground heat, and even without a heat source it will feel like a warm hot house beneath the tenting if you seal it to ground well enough to keep wind out.
My water well was under a plastic fake boulder during that entire freeze out we had in Texas. No power and it not running. Even after days of freezing temps, it was warm under that rock. The ground heat was sufficient for that duration.
This part of the thread is major. Many down south didn’t have the knowledge of where the drain plugs were as they never needed them in the past. The heater will help, but draining the system in a pinch is a huge safety net. If things hit the fan again, I myself would simply setup the heater right over the equipment and use it to keep myself warm while I drain the system……then turn off the heat and forget about the pool for a few days.
While I've never contemplated past knowing where some of the drain plugs are on my equipment, would it be safe to assume that if all vertical piping and pad are above pool, draining those points is sufficient? Asking from pure ignorance on draining system for freeze.
This is so true, cause if it is 20 deg F and wind blowing, the heater is more beneficial to the human while you drain the equipment.
If it's 20 and windy, the heater isn't helping the owner OR the equipment. Wind chill is a force to be reckoned with, like a hair dryer in reverse.
And what we learned last time, was that when we kept the water from freezing with the pumps running, the water temp was well into the 20s, if not the low 20s.
I was in similar situation with outside temperatures in 20’s. My system was fully covered with tarp and internal temperature stayed in high 30’s, but my plan was to drain the system if power off exceeded 90 mins. No science other than given I was above freezing to start. I also monitored water in pump basket.
I forgot to say- we always run the pump all night on freeze nights. Usually the days go above freezing so we don't run them then.
