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Swimming Pool Safety Covers: Save Lives, Protect Your Loved Ones

January 18th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

A beautiful swimming pool can provide years of fun and pleasure for your family and friends. Yet one must keep in mind the dangers that a body of open water presents, especially for babies and toddlers. Your pleasure can vanish in a second if an accident occurs and a young child is injured or killed by falling into the pool. Children are fascinated by the sparkling water and must be kept safely away from the pool when adults are not present. A swimming pool safety cover is a necessity to help prevent tragedy. Especially in a lawsuit-happy society, you need to protect yourself by having not just a safe and secure pool fence, but a safety cover.

Choose the Right Swimming Pool Safety Cover for Your Needs

There are three types of safety covers:

Mesh swimming pool safety covers allow you to see the pool’s water; yet will prevent children from falling in. These types of covers clip into pins that are installed in the cement deck surrounding the pool, making sure that they are securely fastened. There is a tightening device which is located in the center of the mesh that pulls tightly together, ensuring that the mesh is pulled even tighter before it is secured. This creates a taut covering above the water so that even if a child manages to reach the edge of the pool and fall over the side they will be caught safely in the netting.

Plastic swimming pool safety covers are normally used during the winter months when the pool will be out of use. It covers the entire body of water from view. In the same way as the mesh swimming pool safety covers, these plastic ones fix firmly into clips that are embedded in the cement surrounding the swimming pool. These then are locked firmly into place so that there are no gaps that the children can crawl under to get to the water. The saftey covering is sturdy and strong and is designed to carry even an adult’s weight.

Automatic swimming pool safety covers are motorized as their name suggests and are therefore a more expensive option. But they are easier to use than the other two covers as there are no fiddly clips to individually fasten and unfasten every time you want to use the swimming pool. This also means that they are much more convenient as the motor will automatically run the cover over the pool or take it off. These types of safty covers also ensure that the entire pool is covered with no chance of anyone being able to get to the water and therefore are probably the safest to install. They provide a solid surface over the water when the pool is not being used.

When it comes to you and your loved ones, there is no such thing as too much safety. Choose the swimming pool safety cover that best suits your family’s needs.