Advice on a New Pool

[RavenNS]

Is the idea of an automatic cover because you want one of those covers that an elephant can stand on?
or because you think a solar reel might be difficult for you?

Automatic covers are often "pretty" & I have no idea if the last well or have malfuctions much, ( I suppose amount of use & weather/temp conditons would factor),
but you would save a fortune by going with a fence and a good solar cover & reel.

I'm only an average height ( or a bit shorter) woman and I have no problem rolling & unrolling my cover. I have a Lazy "L" pool & have to fold over the cover in the deep end to almost half the pool ( folding past the diving board), in order to make the big turn... this makes the cover much heavier ( or rather, bulkier) & yet it still takes less then a minute to do this & wind-it-up.
unrolling is just as easy.

imo, cranking the handle twenty plus times is worth saving the thousands of dollars that a fully-automated cover costs... ( bet I can get the cover on & off faster than most automated systems as well...lol)
, but that's just my opinion :-)

ps- as for heaters... heat pumps save you dollars in the long run!