Whether to cover a swimming pool in winter

NOWSE

I'm wondering if any moneysavers have experience of looking after a swimming pool during the winter in Spain.

We have a property which shares a communal swimming pool with 15 other properties in Spain. Obviously there are costs involved but I'm not convinced that the present winter maintenance regime is for the best.

The pool is not heated and so is too cold to use for about 7 months of the year. At present the pool is left uncovered and a company is paid to make maintenance visits twice a week throughout the winter(the maintenance takes place three times a week in summer). My feelings are that it may be more cost effective to use a pool cover throughout the winter, with the pump running regularly so that it doesn't seize.

Has anybody any advice on such matter?

sarah1

why don't you all put together and have it heated ?
then you would be able to use it all year round .
sounds like great fun you lucky so and so ?

NOWSE

sarah1 wrote:

why don't you all put together and have it heated ?
then you would be able to use it all year round .
sounds like great fun you lucky so and so ?

That sounds like a lot of expense. Unfortunately, for the vast majority of the winter,the air temperature is not high enough to tempt people to put on their swimming things and so the pool is neither use nor ornament.

Savvy_Sue

I stayed somewhere in the UK where they'd put a plastic greenhouse over the swimming pool so it could be used all year round. And even there they had a cover for it ... which I think speaks volumes about whether covering it is cost effective!