Use your pool brush to push leaves and debris if needed, and then roll up the cover 8 ft, and clean the next section… continuing until you get to the last section of cover. When most of the water is removed*, start cleaning at the roller end of the cover, and using a garden hose with a nozzle, hose-off the first 8 ft section (seam to seam), spraying the debris toward the opposite end of the cover. Remember that water weighs nearly 8 lbs per gallon! Set your pool cover pump(s), and pump off all of the water, or close to it. If there are inches of water and lots of leaves, start a dredging operation with Leaf Rakes, with back and forth motions across the cover, to scoop up debris and also to loosen any dirt or algae on the cover. When the cover is wet, a leaf blower doesn’t work as well. You can also use a soft broom, or even the pool brush to clean along the edges, and a dust pan or a Leaf Rake to collect the leaves. Avoid blowing leaves into the cover box (the box where the reel is housed). In these cases, a leaf blower works best, blowing the leaves from side to side, or blowing them down to the leading edge end of the cover. As a trade off however, at least you do not have to worry about evaporation with an automatic cover! Also for this reason, holes in an automatic cover need to be quickly patched, so your cover pump won’t pump water out of the pool – through a hole in the cover!Ĭleaning an automatic pool cover is easiest when the cover is dry or almost dry. For this reason, leaks in a pool must be quickly fixed. And if it gets below the skimmer level, any added water weight on top of the cover adds exponentially more stress. Always leave the cover open for several hours after adding large volumes of pool chemicals, and after shocking the pool, keep the cover open until chlorine levels subside.īe sure that your water level is proper. If the water level goes below mid-skimmer, it places stress on the cover webbing, ropes and tracks. This protects the cover material from corrosive chloramines. Open the Cover fully once per week. On a weekly basis, automatic covers should be opened for several hours, to allow chlorine byproducts to dissipate by gassing-off at the pool surface. Test salt levels regularly to be sure the pool is not over-salinated. If you do have a salt chlorinator and an auto pool cover, be sure to rinse the tracks, pulleys and reels monthly. Salt systems are not recommended with automatic covers, as it increases the possibility of corrosion to cover fabric and aluminum parts, from salty residues. For this reason, we recommend Nature2 mineral sanitizers to auto cover owners, to help them reduce their chlorine demand. Keeping good water balance and low chlorine levels is the best thing you can do to protect an automatic pool cover. Monitor the water chemistry and chlorine levels on a near-daily basis. Pool water level may have to be maintained daily if the pool is leaking significantly. An automatic cover pump should be set-up and ready to go, if any rain should come through. All of the equipment included with our kits is top-of-the-line and is built to last.On a daily basis, make sure that your cover is closed by glancing out the window. In addition, Pool Warehouse doesn’t sell cheap “Economy” pool kits that are missing essential parts that you will ultimately need to buy later or that come with substandard equipment that will need to be upgraded soon after installation. We take pride in using only American-made pool walls every wall panel (steel or polymer) and every pool liner are manufactured by craftsmen right here in the USA. Check out customer videos at the bottom of this page for visuals on how this pool kit might look in your backyard! These kits include the APC 365 Automatic Swimming Pool Cover and are perfect for those wanting extra security around their pool! This type of automatic cover is mounted under the pool coping and recesses into the included storage box, located under the deck.
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