Comments on: Solar Cover Tips – Keep Your Pool Clean and Toasty

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:44:40 +0000

In reply to Gabrielle. I do not have a salt system. Thanks for your comment. We have it off for lengthy periods of time as well. It goes on at night occasionally right now if we suspect rain etcetera. And we are Bromine actually. I wouldn't say most pools have salt systems these days. In this neighbourhood I know nobody who has a salt system yet. Our pools were installed 12 years ago roughly and I don't think that was being used much back then. I do appreciate you commenting and warning me about that kind of system however. We have discussed converting actually and it doesn't make sense for us as there are issues with salt systems too.

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 03:07:08 +0000

I hope you do not have a salt system! If you keep your solar blanket on for prolonged periods of time you will prematurely damage/fade that “new” liner of yours with high chlorine levels… Unfortunately, pool dealers seem to forget most pools these days have salt water systems which do not have a chlorine level regulating system –
therefore creating continuous chlorine. With the prolonged use of a solar blanket, the UV rays cannot not breakdown the chlorine and these levels become too high quickly; damaging your liner and solar blanket. The chlorine gas off between the solar blanket and liner can also remove the pattern adhesive from your liner. This premature fading would NOT be covered under your liner’s warranty! Solar blankets should technically be called lunar blankets (for heat retention ONLY), where the colour of the blanket would be irrelevant 🙂

By: Lynda Cook

Lynda Cook — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:31:19 +0000

I love your pool, we do not have one anymore, but when the girls were still at home we had a 18″ ezset pool and that was hard enough to keep clean and the upkeep, they are a lot of work but so nice to cool off and exercise in as well!!

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:05:06 +0000

In reply to Tami. Tami - We find it really helps especially on occasions like I mentioned where we went away for a weekend and left heater on low or off entirely and the cover heated the water with sun to 88 degrees. That is crazy warm and SWEET to return home to. Thanks for your comment.

By: Farrah Less

Farrah Less — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:39:24 +0000

I envy you, I would love to have a pool in our house. Summer is a little bit longer here in the South this solar cover is perfect on our location because we get a lot of sun. Hopefully soon we will be able to build our pool. We have a big backyard that can accommodate a big pool and family playground.

By: Tami

Tami — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:53:01 +0000

I’m clueless; I didn’t know pools required covers, especially solar ones. I am not even sure my neighbor has a cover for their pool. You know I’m going to go look now (and recommend this to them, if not).

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:22:42 +0000

In reply to gingermommy.

The chemical balancing is the challenging part of this one anyways. Opening and closing and repairs are costly but I will say the first 18 months of this house and this pool we had no extra costs – maybe a $400 to heat for the summer with chemicals plus opening and closing – maybe another $400 total. $800 for about 4 months – that might seem like a lot but we swam almost every day and I love that the kids can have their friends here to hang out and all the kids want to swim always so that’s kind of nice too.

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:20:18 +0000

In reply to Monica. Monica - there were a couple of days where I was like Holy smokes this is like a hot tub maybe we should dial it back a bit. LOL.

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:19:23 +0000

In reply to Heather. So yes we are using both but the cover is helping to keep the heat in and to keep us from having to rely too much on the new heater.

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:18:23 +0000

In reply to Melissa Dixon.

Melissa – yes it really helps with aches and pains. I find movement helps me and swimming is a good way to move. Thanks for your comment. We usually open our pool in May and swim a little bit then and the June, July and August are solid like you could swim most days and one year we left it open until nearly the end of September – that was way too long but mid Sept or 3rd week is good. That’s a decent amount of time I think.