If you have an inground pool, you know that pool safety is the highest priority. For many years, it was common to use flexible, unsecure solar blankets to keep heat in the water during the summer, and flimsy vinyl pool covers, anchored with water bags to cover the pool in winter.
But neither of those covers is strong enough to prevent someone from being submersed in water if they happened to fall or walk on the covers. Many unfortunate accidents happened because children walked on a cover they thought was strong enough to support them.
Fortunately, safety covers can help prevent those accidents. Strong enough to walk on, safety covers are available in manual and fully automatic versions.
But, while safeguarding against accidents is the main reason for using a safety cover, it’s not the only one. Here are just a few more advantages you can enjoy when you make the switch to a safety cover.
1. Saves Money
Safety covers enclose the entire surface of your pool to reduce the evaporation that can happen when regular covers are in place. Not only does that reduce your water, chemical and heating costs, it helps your pool equipment last longer because it’s not doing as much work.
2. Keeps Your Pool Cleaner
The complete coverage of a safety cover means less dirt, leaves and bugs in your pool.
3. It’s Your Winter & Summer Cover
Safety covers are designed to act as a solar blanket in summer and as a winter cover when the pool’s closed.
4. It Looks Great
There might be nothing in your yard that’s better looking than your pool, unless it’s covered with a sloppy solar blanket – and let’s not even talk about what your yard looks like with the vinyl cover over your pool for the winter. Safety covers keep your landscape look clean and neat year-round.
If you’d like to make 2018 the year for a safer pool in your yard, call us here at Jones Pools to find out how easy it is to install a safety cover for your pool.
