Recent content by BarefootRob

Are you going to heat the pool? Seems like the water may not get very warm since it's not out in the sun. I know of someone in Oklahoma that bought a house with an indoor pool, without a heater, and the water was just too cold to enjoy. He ended up making a few solar heater boxes to set outside...

I too searched for the same, but man I was overwhelmed with the results! I'm looking for another RipStop vinyl that's the same size, but now I can only find 5' wide as the widest. I am looking at creating a "louver" setup on the deck, and that would be towards the end of summer.

Hello all. I was reading an old thread here about skinny dipping, are there others that enjoy using their pool and deck for getting rid of any old tan lines? I have a privacy screen that I can put up and take down in about 5 minutes, that I use on my pool deck. I bought it on the netnude.com...

2 years ago I asked a question about reels for a 30' diameter pool, and what reels others were using. I ended up cutting my "old" solar cover into 6 lengths, and would roll each length up and set them out of the pool when we wanted to swim. That was a major pain, but we put up with it for 2...

Well, last year I tried something different when our old solar cover reel broke in the middle of the span across the pool. I was posting in this thread. Well, after a season of having the cover cut into 5 foot wide sections, and rolling each section up individually and removing them...

Thanks Barejewels, you really helped me out early on in the thought process through this!

Yep, that's what we are doing. It takes about 5 or so minutes to uncover or cover the pool this way, which is much longer than with the reel. We aren't positive if this was the way to go, but thought we would give it a shot, at least until we need to replace this cover in a year or two.

You can see in the first picture where the reel was connected to the cover last season, right across the center of the pool. I ended up cutting the cover down about 14" from the widest part at the center of the old reel, to allow the cover to sit flat(er) on the water. After a week or two, I may...

I ended up getting the straps from Sail Rite, they are called "Stayput Shock Cords" and I also purchased the Stayput Shock Cords Lacing Knobs". I ended up cutting the cover into 60" wide strips, which should be a little easier for my wife to take off the pool. I understand that the cover should...