Guide to solar cover tarpaulins

If you have a garden, you can Swimming poola worthwhile purchase. In the summer, you can save yourself the trips to the pool or a lake, or rather, save. The hotter it gets and the greater your own need to cool off and go for a swim, the greater the likelihood that the local bathing options will be full of other people. Having your own swimming pool avoids this problem relatively easily and saves you the way, the search for a parking space and the dense crowds alike. But swimming pools also have disadvantages. While elsewhere, operators make sure the water is of good quality and temperature, you have to do it yourself at home. The maintenance and care of a swimming pool therefore deter many people from purchasing. But there are tools to greatly reduce the care and save most of the work. One of these aids is one solar cover , This not only significantly reduces the care required, but also helps to save some of the heating costs in heated pools.

The advantages of a solar cover for the swimming pool

A solar cover for the swimming pool offers a lot of benefits. It protects the poolfirst of contamination. These are one of the biggest problems because nobody likes swimming in dirty water. Even additives, such as chlorine, kill algae and bacteria effectively, but are only to be considered as an aid, but not as a solution. Such additives cause high follow-up costs and even with a water change they pollute the environment and in the pool they irritate especially the mucous membranes of humans. Therefore, the most economical use is preferable. However, even if this is not enough, the pool will still have fallen trees and other wastes left in the water, the elimination of which regularly causes some work before you can bathe in the cleaned pool. This can already be avoided by a simple tarpaulin. The big advantage of a solar cover lies in the energy savings of heated pools. Warm water evaporates very quickly and dissipates a lot of heat. These losses can lead to a daytime heated pool completely cooling down. A solar cover counteracts this problem several times. On the one hand, it reduces evaporation to an absolute minimum, leaving more heat in the pool and less water to refill. On the other hand, the material itself absorbs radiant energy from the sun and actively heats the pool with it. While the reduced heat loss allows the pool to cool only by 1 to 2 ° C at night, the solar cover can heat up the water by 3 to 6 ° C and save on heating costs.

The right material and other quality features

In order for the solar cover to fulfill its tasks sufficiently, care must be taken when purchasing on a sufficient quality. The tarpaulin can only effectively reduce the consequential costs of a pool if the tarp itself does not save. A sufficient thickness must be ensured so that not too much heat energy is lost through the solar cover. A material thickness of at least 0.4 millimeters (mm) or 400 micrometers (μm) is recommended for this purpose. Here you should be careful, because it has crept a typing error in the relevant providers who then write 400 mμ, which is supposed to say the same, but does not make sense sense. Otherwise, the material should be as powerful as a solar collector. The more effective the solar cover can convert sunlight into heat, the more you save at the end. Ultimately, a retractor should be purchased. This helps to roll up the tarpaulin without damage and saves further costs by increasing its service life.