Poolside Chat

Should I cover my pool when it is closed during the winter months? You should use a swimming pool winter cover to protect your pool during winter. Blog Post: http://www.inyopools.com/blog/video-p... Well Tom, you don’t want to use a solar blanket. Just because leaves, and snow, and debris will just pile up on top and it will fall into your pool and you’ll have a huge mess. So there’s no point in having a cover. You’ll want to use an above ground swimming pool winter cover because it has grommets around the edges and a cable and wench to tighten it down. Also, what I would recommend is using a leaf net on top of that winter cover. After the fall, once all the leaves have fallen, you remove that leaf net and you’ve still got your winter cover in place. The leaf net is really important because you don’t want those leaves or pines nuts, or whatever’s falling on your cover to just sit there for the rest of time, because they’re just going to molt; decompose and just eat away at your winter cover. Also, we get