Cutting Solar Cover

[ChuckD]

I was in the same situation w/ ours, and now to think of it. I think I will not cut it and jsut cover the pool and use 35 lbs weights on each four corners. Great idea!! Nice recomendation!!

Just make sure those weights are something you'd be comfortable dropping into your pool without fear of damage to the bottom. It's real easy for the cover to get wind under it (another reason to cut it to fit the water surface, you eliminate wind problems), or the water level to drop and pull the cover down, and the weights into the pool.

As I mentioned in another thread somewhere, I opened this spring with a cold dip to pull out 10 6"x12" pavers. And then another to patch two tiny holes in my liner. Another poster replied he had the same problem, but the damage was not repairable.

C.

[ezpool]

I also have a free-form IG pool. I bought a solar cover and decided to cut it so that it fits perfectly on the water. It fits well but is a major pain to work with (the fact that it doesn't make much difference is all the more frustrating - too many trees == not enough sun to warm the pool) . At the moment it's two very large pieces - next year I'm thinking of cutting it into more manageable pieces as suggested in another thread by AnnaK -
http://ellerbach.com/Pool/Solarcover/. The easer it is to use the more likely I'll be to use it.