4 Types of Cheap Pool Covers for Your Home

Protect your friends, family, and pets by creating a safer pool area without breaking the bank using cheap pool covers properly. Our swimming pool safety covers help close off access to the water, helping to prevent accidental drownings, but we also offer a wide range of inexpensive covers to protect your pool in conjunction with safety nets or behind the perimeter of a professionally installed removable mesh pool fence. Beyond keeping your family safe, the right cover can help you maintain water quality, save money, and make the chore of cleaning your pool easier. We make it easy to get an inground pool cover cheap without compromising on quality or your family’s safety.

Covering Pool Covers

It’s important to understand that far from a single piece of equipment, the term pool covers refers to a broad category of products that are joined only in the fact that they go over the surface of your pool. Different covers are made to fill different needs, so a cheap pool cover of one type may be far more expensive than those marketed to fill another need. That’s why it’s so important for you to understand the benefits you want from a pool cover before you start shopping. Otherwise, you may find yourself browsing (and buying) covers that aren’t going to meet your needs as a pool owner.

Why Your Pool Needs to be Covered

Your pool and the water in it take a lot of use and abuse. The wind blows in dirt, rain swells its water volume, leaves fall from the trees, the sun does its best to dry it up, and in the middle of summer, our sweaty bodies jump in and out of it while exercising, relaxing, or entertaining. Adding the right type of cheap pool cover can have a big impact on the health and safety of your pool and its water.

• Liability – As a responsible pool owner, it’s your duty to keep your pool protected with a safety barrier that helps prevent accidental drownings. While many people choose a pool safety fence to fulfill their obligation, others may choose a swimming pool safety cover as a cheaper second layer of protection. In fact, these pool covers make inexpensive safety barriers that comply with the requirement on their own under many jurisdictions’ pool codes and regulations.
• Debris – Leaves, sticks, trash, and dirt are all easily carried onto your property by the wind to be deposited in your pool. This can leave you with dirty, unsightly water or a legitimate health hazard, depending on the contaminants involved.
• Water Chemistry – Your pool’s water uses a delicate balance of chemicals to maintain its quality and clarity, fighting off algae, bacteria, and other microorganisms. A cover not only protects you from infestation by things blown on debris but can help maintain that balance by keeping out rain and other precipitation that’s carrying chemicals and organisms or swelling the volume of water, throwing your chemical ratios out of balance. 
• Evaporation – Another threat to your swimming pool’s chemistry and your pocketbook is evaporation. Evaporation reduces your pool volume, forcing more frequent refills and chemistry rebalancing. Sunlight can also “burn off” some of the chemicals used, leaving your pool unprotected.
• Damage – Your pool is subject to the elements, including wind, rain, and UV rays from the sun. An effective cheap pool cover helps create a protective barrier that can extend your swimming pool’s life. In addition, by keeping out debris and contaminants, your pool’s circulation system avoids working harder than necessary and is less likely to experience clogged pipes that can damage your circulation system.

Types of Cheap Inground Pool Covers

Mesh Pool Safety Cover

Mesh pool safety covers (or winter pool covers) are custom-fit to the pool they’re protecting and anchored to rails along the pool’s deck or anchor points around the edge of the pool. The UV and tear-resistant material helps keep dirt and debris out of your pool, moderate evaporation to some extent, and prevent unsupervised access to your swimming pool. It’s strong enough to support the weight of a full-grown adult, keeping a potential drowning victim out of the water until they can be helped to safety.

If you’re using this as a winter pool cover, after you’ve winterized your pool, installing a mesh pool cover helps keep the water remaining from freezing and works to prevent frost damage to the pool’s structure, liner, or equipment.

Swimming Pool Safety Nets

Similar to safety covers, safety nets are designed primarily to keep potential drowning victims from entering the pool. Rather than a true cover, nets are made up of knotted cords and twine tensioned with metal springs. While it covers the surface to protect you from increased liability due to injury risk, it doesn’t stop much else, as the openings between knots are far larger than that in a safety cover’s mesh–about 3” wide, or big enough for dirt, leaves, and small trash.

Leaf Cover

Leaf pool covers are designed to keep debris out of your pool, but they don’t offer the same safety benefits as some other options. This protects your pool from the potential contamination caused by blowing leaves and trash and keeps them from clogging up your circulation system, but it may not do much to stop evaporation. Many times, safety net owners will use a cheap leaf cover in conjunction with their safety net to provide protection similar to that offered by swimming pool safety covers.

Evaporation Cover

An evaporation cover helps to slow down the evaporation process, deterring water vapor from passing through to the air while also keeping the heat it carries away trapped in your pool. These inexpensive pool covers help maintain your water’s chemistry and a pleasant temperature without the use of your pool heater.

Getting the Right Pool Cover For Your Pool

Your local independent All-Safe Pool installer is ready to help you with custom pool covers that do exactly what you need them to do. Whether you’re looking for a cheap inground pool cover to cut down on your pool cleaning time or a swimming pool safety cover as an inexpensive second layer of protection behind your removable mesh pool fence, they have the experience to get the job done right. They’ll talk to you about your needs, take measurements, and give you a free written estimate with no further obligation. Get the pool cover you need to protect your safe swimming pool with the help of your neighborhood All-Safe Pool pro today.