Determining if you need a custom safety cover
If you answer yes to any of the below questions, a stock cover will not work for your pool. Use this simple guide to the right to learn how to measure your pool or old cover so that we're able to produce a new custom safety cover that fits your pool perfectly.
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Do you want your new cover to align with existing brass anchor locations?
With proper measurements, we can manufacture a new cover with straps that align with existing anchors.
We can only stock so many size and shape pool covers. If your pool shape and/or size is not available on our website, that means you’ll have to complete a measuring guide to have a custom cover made. Rectangular covers CANNOT be used on non-rectangular pools and covers that don’t exactly match the appropriate pool’s size and shape will degrade and fail causing serious hazard.
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IS YOUR POOL A UNIQUE SHAPE OR SIZE?
OUR STOCK SHAPES INCLUDE RECTANGULAR POOLS AND GRECIAN POOLS. IF YOUR POOL IS A DIFFERENT SHAPE, OR YOUR SIZE IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM OUR NAVIGATION, YOU WILL NEED A CUSTOM COVER.
Not all safety covers are manufactured with their straps in the same location. That means if you have existing anchors in your deck, there is no guarantee a new cover’s straps will match those points. With measurements, we will be able to manufacture a custom cover that fits your pool and its anchors. New anchors will be provided to replace any that have failed.
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Do you have any protrusions or obstructions within 12” from the edge of the pool that cannot be removed?
These would include slides or diving board mounting brackets, handrails, ladders, rocks etc. which will need to be accounted for by the cover manufacturer.
Any obstruction or protrusion from the pool deck or near the water line will need to be accounted for by your new safety cover. Be sure to check that your diving board and hand rails can be removed, and that their brackets don’t extend above the deck surface.
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Do you have pavers, grass or wood decking anywhere around the perimeter of the pool?
You’ll need anchors appropriate for that decking
Grass, un-cemented pavers or bricks and wood all use different anchors than concrete. In the measuring guide, be sure to identify the deck material along each side of the pool and that deck material’s boundaries.
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Do you have less than 3 feet of concrete decking at any point around the perimeter of the pool?
You’ll need a cover manufactured with shorter straps or springs
Straps typically meet anchor points that are about 30-34” from the deck of the pool. If your deck is smaller than 3’ than shorter straps and/or ‘short springs’ will need to be provided with your cover.
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Does your pool have a round or diagonal corner greater than a 2-foot radius?
Your cover will need altered corners as well.
Any pool with a cut-corner or radius-corner greater than 2’ will experience extreme abrasion on their covers if a rectangular cover is used.
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Does your pool have a round or diagonal corner greater than a 2-foot radius?
Your cover will need altered corners as well.
Step Size
Steps must be no smaller than 3' x 7' and no larger than 4' x 8'
Step Location
Steps must either be at the center of the end of the pool, or on the right or left side, (when looking from the shallow end toward the deep end).
Offset Steps
Steps on the left or right side of the pool must either be flush to the end of the pool or either offset 1 foot, or offset 2 feet.