How to Protect Your In- Ground Pool Cover During The Winter?

There are some enemies that threaten your in-ground winter cover, including: Ice, Rain, Snow, Trees and animals.

1. Protecting Against Ice

To protect your winter cover against ice, let the ice melt so you can remove it with a winter cover pump. Don’t try to remove the frozen ice because it can have sharp edges. Pool covers will be damage by sharp objects.

You can also prevent large ice build-ups by keeping a 1/2” water level on top of the pool cover. But if you have a mesh winter pool cover, you don’t need to do it because ice would melt and just fall through.

2. Protecting Against Wind

To protect your winter cover from wind, keep that 1/2” of water on top as it also helps with the ice. If you have a tarp coverinstead of a safety cover, use water bags or aqua-blocks to hold your cover down.

3. Protecting Against Trees

To protect your cover against trees, hire a professional tree specialist to remove any overhanging tree limbs that may land in your pool. Dead tree limbs are a No.1 cause to holes in swimming pool covers during the winter. You can also buy a swimming pool leaf net that installs right ontop of the pool cover.

4. Protecting Against Rain and Melted Snow

To protect your cover against rain and melted snow, pump the water off the cover with a winter cover pump or a plain homemade siphon. Unless you have a mesh pool cover that water can drain through.

5. Protecting Against Animals

Finally, to protect your pool against animals, install a sturdy pool fence, 5 or 6 feet tall is usually enough to keep out most four legged animals. Also, keep the cover clean so animals won’t be attracted to your pool in the first place.