Advice, Overwinter tips
Winter pool heating
To prevent frost damage to your swimming pool heating, it is best to carefully overwinter your swimming pool heating. There are different types of pool heating. Here we explain per type of heating how you can best protect it.
“Discover the TIPS below that can help you prevent frost damage!”
Overwinter Blozoen solar collectors
The flow solar collectors It is best to disconnect van Blozoen and let it drain.
This is best done as follows:
- Turn off the solar control
- unscrew the 2 end pieces
- You close the bypass so that the water can no longer flow through the solar collectors
- If the solar collector pump is in a place that is not frost-free, you must drain this pump
- If a non-return valve is fitted - you must disconnect it to allow the water to drain from the riser pipe
“In principle, you can winterize all swimming pool heating systems with solar collectors through which swimming pool water flows.”
Shut off your pool's heat pump for the winter
The bypass to the heat pump you must shut off.* The bypass is open and the OUT and RETURN are closed. Then loosen the couplings to the heat pump. Quite a bit of water will run out of the pipe. Then tilt the heat pump to the side of the connections to drain all the remaining water from the pump. In this way there is effectively NO residual water left in the appliance.
Our technicians will then replace the couplings. This prevents animals from nesting in the pipe or losing the seals.
“Do this carefully – water in a heat pump can cause the heat exchanger to burst open in the event of frost. The repair costs are extremely high!”
If you have a protective cover, place it over the heat pump. You can then switch off the fuse of the heat pump in the fuse box of the swimming pool control.
* TIP : a ball valve that PARALLEL state with the leadership OPEN, a ball valve that 90° RIGHT ANGLE is on the lead CLOSED
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How should the ball valves of the bypass be placed in summer and winter?
It is best to disconnect the heat pump for the winter. To NOT let the water flow through the heat pump anymore, you must close the BY-PASS. If you move the 3 ball valves TO and BACK of the heat pump closed and the ball valve to the pool OPEN, water will no longer flow to the heat pump.
How can you overwinter your swimming pool heating if you heat with a heat exchanger
When you heat your pool with a heat exchanger with a gas boiler, an oil boiler or, for example, with the heat pump of your home (air or soil drilling) it cannot freeze. This heat exchanger is placed in the frost-free technical room.
“If the techniques are installed in the house, there is no risk of frost damage here. If the techniques are placed in a pool house or garden house, some attention is still required. Make sure that this room is frost-free.”
TIP : This can be done by isolating the room or by using a small electric fire, for example.
Frost protection for your swimming pool
Now you are probably wondering how you can protect your swimming pool if there is no heating.
- With a heat exchanger you can simply lower the temperature to, for example, 5°C and still protect your swimming pool against ice formation.
- This is not possible with the other 2 systems, so it is best to install frost protection. THE ICEGUARD. This is a control that keeps your circulation pump running continuously when the temperature of the pool water drops below 0.
READING TIP : 5 Tips for wintering your swimming pool.
