Keep Your Pool Warm with Pool Solar Covers
Solar blankets are less expensive than an elaborate swimming pool heating system. With the help of solar pool covers, you save on chemical costs and energy bills. While that may seem surprising at first, the reason why this is true is really quite simple.
By using a solar cover for your above ground swimming pool, you will be greatly reducing evaporation from your pool. This includes the evaporation of both water and chemicals. When you are losing fewer chemicals through evaporation, you won’t need to add as many replacement chemicals. Since heating is done by the sun’s rays, there are not electricity costs to pay either.
For a convenient solution, solar reels take the bother and hassle out of using solar covers to help heat your own swimming pool. These pool reels can be permanently attached onto the rail of one’s above ground swimming and feature a strong and easy to use hand crank that makes it extremely easy for anyone to roll or unroll a blanket. Power reels are also convenient, though they cost more. Depending on the size of the above ground pool and your budget, there are a variety of different solar blankets and reels available on the market.
Some brands of swimming pool covers feature a distinctive diamond design of the air pockets, which in turn reduces the space between your air bubbles, helping aid heat transference and retention. Also, these covers are available in different thicknesses, with all the thicker covers supplying even better heat preservation.
Before I owned a pool I always thought that pool maintenance was going to be a real pain and troublesome. I had heard many horror stories from friends and acquaintances about all the problems they had in keeping their pools clean and balanced. Covering and removing pool covers was another problem.
An alternative to the conventional bulky solar pool covers is the liquid pool cover. This liquid pool cover forms a liquid blanket that slowly emits a non-toxic fluid. This liquid traps the heat, reduces evaporation and saves energy. These liquid blankets eliminate the hassles involved in removing and placing a regular cover on the pool, which is particularly handy if the pool is large.
Solar blankets are an ideal item for families that prefer to swim more often than most, because it gives you the ability to keep the pool open more frequently.
There are a range of different blankets that you can buy for your pool; however the quality solar blankets are constructed of resin, which is resistant to water. How the cover accomplishes its main task is to trap heat from the sun as it is draped over your swimming pool, so you are able to warm the water in a natural fashion, and you will be able to swimming even in the fall season because the sun helps keep the water at a cozy temperature.
For these reasons, solar blankets are a preferred way to passively heat and reduce maintenance expenses. Besides saving chemical requirements and energy costs, they also extend pool use well after the sun has set. Solar reels give another convenience for larger pools so there is a solution to fit each and every budget.
