Pool covers are an important aspect of pool safety. While automatic pool covers slide seamlessly across the top of your pool, other types of covers need proper anchoring to ensure they work correctly.
Read on to learn how to properly use your pool safety cover anchors on both your mesh covers and pool nets to help keep your family safe.
Mesh Covers
Mesh covers are a perfect way to keep your pool secure, keep leaves and debris out of the water, and winterize your pool if necessary. Mesh covers are designed with the most durable mesh available, coupled with strong, quality straps that can hold the weight of an adult in an emergency. These straps criss-cross the cover and attach to the pool safety cover anchors on the deck of your pool to provide constant tension.
Pool Safety Nets
Pool nets are another excellent choice for safety. These devices are fairly easy to use for adults but difficult for children to figure out without being taught. Nets are made of an ultra-strong polyethylene that can hold up to 485 pounds in an emergency. The holes are 3 ½ inches square, so even persistent children are deterred from fitting through.
They’re also an attractive safety option if you don’t want a fence interfering with the sightlines to your pool.
A Note About Leaf Covers
Leaf covers, while also secured with pool safety cover anchors, are not safety devices alone. They are designed to keep leaves and debris out of the pool, but not to hold the weight of adults or children. If you want or already own a leaf cover, you must pair it with a pool net underneath for it to be a safety feature.
How to Anchor Your Cover
Mesh covers and pool nets both use anchors in the deck of your pool, but their systems are slightly different.
Mesh Covers
Removing a mesh pool cover is a fairly straightforward process.
- Clean the pool cover of any debris, and determine which direction you will pull the cover off the pool.
- Use an Allen wrench to unscrew the cover anchors of the pool safety cover just enough to remove the rings.
- Remove the loops of the cover from the anchors with a round loop tool.
- If you have D-ring anchors in certain places, detach the springs from the anchors on the opposite side before attempting to detach the D-rings.
- Use an Allen wrench to screw the pool safety cover anchors down into the deck so they don’t catch the cover as you remove it.
- Once the cover is loose, pull it back a section at a time, folding it as you go, until you’ve got one flat cover.
- Fold that into a square and fit it into the cover bag for storage.
To apply your cover, follow these steps in reverse. Make sure the springs are tightened to approximately 50% for increased safety.
Pool Nets
To remove your pool net:
- Loosen the tension by applying the Titan Tool to the deck sleeve and then applying the Tool line to the central tensioning system line.
- Once loose, undo the second central tensioning system and pull on the net to snap it.
- Remove all the clips from the pool safety cover anchors around the pool.
- Put the net on the roller through the square and roll the net onto the roller.
To apply your pool net, complete these steps in reverse.