March 29, 2011
Demystifying Pool Blankets
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 cover reels take the fuss and hassle out of using solar covers to help heat your swimming pool. These reels can be permanently mounted onto the rail of your above ground pool and feature a strong yet easy to use hand crank that makes it extremely simple for anyone to roll or unroll a solar blanket. Depending on the size of your above ground pool and your budget, there are a variety of different solar pool blankets and cover reels available on the market.
Several brands of pool covers feature a special diamond design with air pockets, which reduces the space between your air bubbles, increasing heat transference and maintenance. Also, these covers are available in different thicknesses, with all the thicker covers offering even better heat insulation.
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 choice to the conventional bulky pool blankets is the liquid pool cover. This liquid pool cover forms a liquid blanket which slowly emits a new non-toxic fluid. This liquefied cover traps the heat, minimizes evaporation and saves energy. These water blankets eliminate the hassles involved in removing as well as placing a regular cover, and that's particularly handy if the pool is big.
Solar blankets tend to be an ideal item for families that swim more often because it gives you a chance to keep the pool open more frequently. Whether it is dark or a cold season, it will be heated.
There is a variety of different blankets that you could find for your swimming pool; however the quality blankets are constructed of resin, which is resistant against water. How the blanket accomplishes its principal task is to steal heat from the sun as it is covered over your swimming pool, so you are able to get high temperature water in a natural manner, and you will be able to swim even in the fall period because the blanket keeps the water at a comfy temperature.
For these reasons, pool blankets are an increasingly popular way to passively heat swimming pools and reduce maintenance expenses. Besides saving chemical and energy costs, they also extend pool use well after the sun has set. Sun reels give an extra convenience for greater pools so there is a product to fit everyone's budget.
Selecting the proper pool covers can sometimes be a tough process. For help navigating the wide variety of choices available on the market, don't forget to visit http://www.pool-solar-covers.org to find the most recent updates in the current market.
Filed under Swimming Pool by Bea Pickering