An Automatic Pool Cover can make any pool more enviromentally friendly
Everyone is GOING GREEN!! these days, and manufacturers in the pool industry are putting out more and more energy efficient pumps and heating equipment. This is all great news for the consumer, but let's not forget the most important part-cover the pool!
Water that evaporates from an uncovered heated pool wastes water, chemicals and energy. It has been said that a pool without a cover is like a house without a roof. An uncovered 16 X 32 pool can lose as much as 180 gallons of water a week. When that water evaporates, it takes heat and chemicals with it. An Automatic Pool Cover can dramatically reduce this water loss by reducing this evaporation when the pool is not in use.
Chemical loss from evaporation can be costly and time consuming
An Automatic Pool Cover can reduce the loss of chemicals due to evaporation and UV degradation. An uncovered pool on a hot day can lose up to a gallon of chlorine in as little as two hours! A covered pool can hold this same chlorine for up to two weeks. This can help you maintain a cleaner pool with less time doing testing and more time swimming.
Uncovered pools lose heat!! Click here for the US Department of Energy site on Pool Covers
The energy savings realized from covering your pool can be substantial. In Michigan, the average annual cost to heat an uncovered swimming pool from May 1st through September 30th is substantial. The US Department of Energy has said that an automatic pool cover is the best way to reduce the cost of energy use in maintaining a swimming pool.
To heat a pool to 78 degrees from 5/1 to 9/30 w/out a cover is about $ 1621.00 annually. With a cover it drops to about $ 216.00 For the same pool at 80 degrees w/out a cover it is $ 2072.00 and with a cover it is $ 296.00, and at 82 degrees it is $ 2536.00 w/out a cover and $ 384.00 with one. These are some substantial savings to be considered. The conservation of this much energy makes an automatic pool cover a major contributor to the protection of our environment and your household budget. Making you a green contributor and contributing green to you.
The addition of automatic or manual cover to your pool can dramarically reduce the overall cost of ownership of your pool.
