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Over wintering your pond Over winter your pond / water feature, here is how The feature When it starts to get very cold and icy it may be a good idea to protect your water feature. But how you do it depends on what type of water feature you have. If it is a basic pebble pool then you can just turn off the pump. If how ever you have an "elaborate feature" this may need to be covered in the extreme cold (as well as turning the pump off) Do not forget that as water freezes it expands, if you have a feature (say a rock) if water freezes in any small cracks it will expand so splitting your feature. If it is a purpose built water spitter then by turning the pump off insures that there will be no water in it as it will run back down the feed pipe The Pump Most manufactures say that the pump should over wintered in a bucket of water. This is to prevent the seals from drying out. How ever as most features are well below ground level you should be ok by just turning the pump off. How ever if in doubt you should remove the pump and store it in a bucket of water. Or what ever your pump manufacturer suggests It depends on how cold it gets in your area as to which you should do. Anti Freeze On no account should any form of anti freeze or salt be introduced to your water feature as these will corrode your pump. Frost Stat If you know how then it is permissible to wire in a suitable frost stat to stop your water feature pump, assuming none of the above apply
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