DIY solar pool cover or solar blanket will be a nice investment to protect your beloved pool. This thing will provide various benefits.
Solar blanket can naturally heat your pool water. It will also keep out the debris and leaves. Pool cover also can reduce water evaporation.
Unfortunately, a pool cover with an automatic reel can be pricey and hurt your wallet. But this doesn’t mean you cannot have it and benefit from the pool cover.
Try to make or build your very own inexpensive pool cover to take care of your pool. It is easy to do and it saves your money.
Easy To Do DIY Solar Pool Cover
But before you start building your own solar cover for the pool, you need to prepare some materials. The building process of DIY solar cover is simple.
The materials you need can be found easily at any hardware store. Below are some things you need to prepare to start making your own solar cover.
When choosing a hose where your pool water is going to collect the energy of the sun, pick the black irrigation one.
About the length, pick one according to your pool heater’s size. Coil the hose inside the frame. It must be coiled in a spiral pattern and start from the outside.
The two previous steps are for the base of solar heater for your pool. Now it is time to finish it. Enclose the frame you have prepared in the transparent sheet.
It is going to protect your hose from some elements while creating a greenhouse effect in order to trap the heat of the sun.
Now set up your solar heater by placing it in the right position where the sun is available. If there is a widely open space close to your pool, place the solar heater close to your pool.
But if the pool area is shady, get another spot that is sunny to place your pool heater.
