Deciding on a safety cover

[Poconos]

Romeo,
I gave up on covering with my mesh. During the winter with the snow-sun-melt-freeze-snow cycles I would wind up with the cover frozen in a block of ice with the springs stretched. Even tried trcuk inner tubes one year. Just gave up. I keep the pool as clean as possible as late as possible and open early as possible in the spring. I think you may be in the same climate latitude as me so you may have the same problems. I'm in northeast, PA. Other pools in my area are covered and I guess they just ignore this problem. I think it bothered me because I like to open early and didn't want to wait for the ice to thaw and release my cover.
Al

[waste]

Hey, Hzz - GREAT to see you!

I just want to mention that the newer mesh covers have a tighter 'sunblock' weave that makes them almost the same as a solid cover - they cost a little more than the standard mesh cover, but it's money well spent! You get the ease, safety and convenience of a mesh cover, with ~ the cleanness of a solid cover

It's far enough into this season that we can start to discuss winter covers.

[hzz]

Thanks! It's great to be back. For a long time I couldn't even log in to the forum.

It's nice to have it back up and running.

I signed up at another forum, but it just wasn't the same as this one.

Hopefully we can keep this place alive and well :-)

[CarlD]

Welcome back!

[Watermom]

Thanks! It's great to be back. For a long time I couldn't even log in to the forum.

It's nice to have it back up and running.

I signed up at another forum, but it just wasn't the same as this one.

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