subject: Advantages of A Cover For Your Swimming Pool [print this page] If you are trying to make a decision of whether to buy a swimming pool cover or not, there are a lot of of advantages to having one. That is why, even though some can run into the thousands of dollars, many homeowners are still lining up to buy them.
What are these benefits? Well one of the main benefits is that a good swimming pool cover helps to contain your swimming pool's heat. On a hot summer day, the pool is soaking up the warmth from the sun all through the day. This helps to keep the temperature of the water at a nice level.
When nightfall arrives however, the pool begins to lose a lot of its heat. Part of this is simply due to the outside temperatures cooling. But, another part is due to some of the heat dissipating as the water evaporates. The right kind of swimming pool cover helps to alleviate the loss of heat by preventing water evaporation and containing the heat inside the pool. If you use your pool a lot, over the course of a year, this feature alone can save you thousands of dollars on your heating bill.
Not only that, but if you happen to have a home in a part of the country where water bills are high, you will also end up saving a ton of money on your water bill.
As a swimming pool owner, you know that you need to include certain chemicals in your pool for various reasons. You can save quite a bit of money on these chemicals by using a swimming pool cover. Without a pool cover, water will evaporate overnight from the pool. And as it evaporates, it will take the chemicals that you have added to the water with it. As a result, you will have to replenish the water and, along with it, the chemicals.
And, yes, chemicals such as chlorine, muriatic, and others are not really that expensive. But, even so, the costs can really begin adding up over the course of a year. If you have a pool cover, however, less water and chemicals will evaporate, thus saving you money.
An additional benefit that swimming pool covers provide for you is in helping you to save both time and money is by preventing leaves, dirt, debris, and other clutter from being blown into the pool. Anyone who cares about their pool and the people swimming in it wants to keep their pool clean. As a result this involves vacuuming, skimming the surface, adding chemicals and so forth - or hiring a service to do it for you.
Plainly, the cleaner that you can keep your pool to begin with, the less time, effort, and dollars that you will be forced to expend on cleaning it. And, this is what a cover does. It keeps all of this drek from dirtying up the pool. Which means that you have to spend less time cleaning it
