How to Choose Appropriate Pool Cover for Your Aquatic Facility While closing your pool, you need to take proper measurements to ensure your pool stays healthy during the off season. You clean pool water, add chemicals, and do more things before covering your pool. However, it is important to use the right type of cover.
Professionals who provide swimming pool management services say that proper pool cover not only protects your pool but also prevents children and animals from falling. You need to know a little more about each type of pool cover so you can choose proper cover.
There are three types of pool safety covers- mesh or solid hybrid cover. Mesh Safety Covers: These are affordable and longlasting. If you use them properly they even can last for 15 years. They are light in weight and easy to handle. How Mesh Safety Cover Work: It does not allow water to collect on top of the cover. Due to its design, rain and melted snow water drain right into pool. It is woven tightly which allows debris to settle on top. When it comes to sunlight, specifications of mesh safety covers are different. Some allow a little bit of sunlight and others can create 99% block to sunlight. Sunlight boosts algae growth. So, before closing your pool, add an algaecide which kills algae and will stay in your water for a long period. It means you can prevent algae in off season without having to remove your cover at all. However, if you already have algae, get rid of pool algae first, then close your pool. If you close it “green,� it means you allow algae to grow in pool for months. So, when you open pool in the next season, it would be a bigger mess to clean it up.
Solid Safety Cover: It allows you to keep your pool clean till next season. Solid safety cover establishes impermeable barrier between pool and other factors like sun, rain, snow, and debris. How it Works: Solid safety covers block sunlight completely. This means you don’t need to cover dirt on the bottom of your pool all winter. This cover block sun and wind completely, which prevents the growth of algae and reduce evaporation. Hybrid Safety Covers: The best features of mesh and solid covers are wrapped into hybrid safety covers. Therefore, they are getting popular. Hybrid covers also block most UV rays while keeping out all debris. Theses covers are tightly woven, so water drains into your pool, but debris stays out. They are also light weight and easy to manage.