North Texas doesn’t have a normal pool season. Our winters are mild but punctuated by hard freezes, and our summers punish any lapse in chemistry. These guides cover what to do as the calendar turns.
Our leaves come down late and all at once, and the water is still warm enough to grow algae while they do. That combination is what turns a heavy drop into a green pool by Thanksgiving.
Four inches in an afternoon, the pool comes over the coping, and by Thursday it is green. Almost all of that damage happens in the forty-eight hours after the storm, not during it.
A pool that has been effortless since April starts misbehaving in the second week of August, and the owner has changed nothing. That’s exactly the point.
The close-in-September habit doesn’t survive North Texas. Our winters are mild but punctuated by hard freezes, and the pool you walk away from in November is the one you pay to recover in April.
A single hard freeze can crack a pump or burst a pipe overnight. After 2021, no Plano pool owner should be caught off guard. Here is exactly what to do before, during, and after a freeze.
The trick is doing this in late February while the water is still cold, rather than in April when it has already started working against you.
Nobody swims in January and the pool looks the same whether the pump ran or not. In most of the country the honest answer would be to shut it down.
Doing the right job in the right month is most of what separates a pool that is easy from a pool that is a running argument.
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