Cover that protects from UV but doesn't heat?

[rebman]

I live in Las Vegas, so obviously without a cover there are extreme levels of evaporation and chlorine degradation. The problem is that with a cover the pool gets up to 90-95+ degrees in the summer, making it unusable. My pool is quite large, so dragging the cover off every night to get some cooling is impractical.

Does anyone know of a cover that protects the chlorine from UV but doesn't heat the pool?

I was thinking of flipping the cover over so the little bubbles are on the "wrong" side....would that help?

Any ideas are welcome....thank you!

 

[mknauss]

No. Evaporation is what keeps our pool water from heating well into the upper 90's low 100's.

You could place a sun shade over the entire pool area. They are available. You need to be sure to properly secure them.

 

[rebman]

No. Evaporation is what keeps our pool water from heating well into the upper 90's low 100's.

You could place a sun shade over the entire pool area. They are available. You need to be sure to properly secure them.

I was afraid of that.

How do pool service companies keep the chlorine at the right levels when they only come once a week? I've found that without a cover, even with proper CYA levels, I'm adding bleach constantly.

 

[mknauss]

They add large amounts of chlorine at their visit, and then put many trichlor tablets in the skimmer. At the end of the week, you are likely at a FC of zero. Typically those pools also always have algae. Just are not green yet. And they are likely cloudy. From that algae. And they are not sanitary.

 

[an1vrsy]

Hi rebman… how is your budget? A couple or three things you could invest in. I lived in Cali before moving to Las Vegas in 2019 and doing an owner build for our pool was learned here on TFP.

Yes, we put in an autocover, a glacier pool water chiller and a salt water chlorine generator (SWG) from reading posts here on TFP. In fact, reading Marty’s posts over the year from 2018 - 2019 before we moved here convinced me/us to put those three things items in as part of our pool build.

On the days I don’t turn on the chiller, the water reaches 90+ degrees and is not refreshing. With the chiller on I can keep the water at around 86 degrees. The autocover helps reduce the high evaporation overnight and SWG generates the chlorine for the pool automatically. So I close with, how’s your budget?