Why Your Swimming Pool Need a Cover?

Great advice on why you need a winter pool cover. What types and materials there are and the pros and cons of each. Price vs. quality and so on .. A good find.

Getting The Most Out Of Your Swimming Pool

Getting the most use and enjoyment out of your pool is very important. You always must include and think about safety for kids and your loved ones. This article talks about safety measures including the safety of winter pool covers.

How You Can Buy an Excellent Swimming Pool Cover?

Excellent article on swimming pool accessories mostly importantly its about winter pool covers. Include thinking about budget restraints and types and styles of covers.

5 SWIMMING POOL COVER TIPS

That title says it all. The article is about 5 swimming pool tips.. duh… Seriously a great article with lots of tips..

Handy Ideas To Follow When Searching For A Swimming Pool Cover

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Avoid the lowest price trap when choosing swimming pool covers

Cheaper is not always better, as you will find out with this article. Talks about Denier, and Scrim which are terms to describe breaking strength and strand count. Interesting reading here..

Here are 6 articles from other people’s blogs… You will find them informative and useful in the quest for winter pool covers…

The basic design of swimming pool automatic covers are a drum that the cover wraps around, a set of reel, ropes, pulleys and a drive mechanism..(motor). If placed in with a new pool installation, they can sit underneath the pool deck on the end that they are stored. This makes for a nice clean look, and when covering your pool, the cover seems to come out from underneath. Swimming pool automatic covers are also available for installation if you already have a pool. these sit on top of the pool deck on the end that they are stored, and provide the exact same function as the built-in units.

Swimming pool automatic covers are operated by basically two types of motor assemblies. Electric gear driven and Hydraulic fluid driven. The differences being,

Electric gear driven swimming pool automatic covers operate via an electric motor and it is place at the operating end where the drive mechanisms are. The gear motor turns in the same direction that the cover is moving. Direction change for open and closing it is accomplished with either polarity change in the electricity or it is accomplished with a reverse gear cog. Torque limiting devices are installed so as to limit stress as the cover nears the end of its travel. And stop sensors are fitted at each end. The electric motor(s) are completely submersible, so they will provide you years of trouble-free service.

Hydraulically actuated swimming pool automatic covers use hydraulic pressure to open and close the unit. The pump motor is usually placed at the equipment pad and lines are ran from there to the drive end of the mechanism. These systems also use torque limiting and stop sensor system to control operations, just like their electric cousins. These types of systems can usually be packaged in a tighter area because of the motor being able to be placed away from the main cover unit.

Swimming pool automatic covers are part of my theory of being able to enjoy “lazy day summers” Enjoy the rest of your season as there are still many warm days left.

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Above ground and inground solid pool covers are simply solid type covers that are draped across you pool. Most of them are secured by pool cover weights. These are tubes that you fill with water and weigh down and secure the edges of the cover. These are the least expensive to purchase, and have to be tended to and monitored over the winter season so water and snow doesn’t accumulate on top. If not monitored, the weight of the water or snow will weigh down the cover cause it to cave into the pool. This isn’t such an issue with above ground pools because the covers are easier to secure around the top than their inground siblings.

Are leaf net covers considered the same as mesh safety pool covers? Well they basically the same, only leaf net covers are a designed with a tighter woven scrim. They let water through, but keep leaves and most smaller debris out. That way water does not pool up and develop on top. You mostly see these types of covers on above ground pools.

Mesh safety pool covers are considered by many as the top of the line covers. They are designed tight woven scrim and allow water to pass through so you do not have pump any water off the top. They are secured at the edge with spring loaded buckles. They are the best way to secure pool covers, and have an added benefit that if someone falls onto the cover it will not allow the person and cover fall in. These type of pool covers because of their woven design are very strong and very rip resistant.

Solid safety pool covers are secured to you pool the same way as the mesh safety pool covers, just as you guessed it are solid in design.  They are made so no water or debris falls into the pool. These type of pool covers are great for areas with a lot of trees. This is the type of pool cover I have because I live in the woods, and when I uncover the pool in the spring time, my water is nice and clear with no dirt or debris in it.

So I hope this answers any questions on the different types of covers and what mesh safety pool covers are. Any of them will do a decent job for you.

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