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Solar Swimming Pool Covers
Solar swimming pool covers are one of the most cost-effective ways to heat your pool and reduce ongoing running costs. Designed to capture and retain the sun’s warmth, our high-quality solar pool covers help raise water temperature naturally while significantly reducing heat loss overnight. They also minimise evaporation, cut down on chemical usage, and keep debris out of your pool making maintenance easier and more affordable.
Whether you're looking for a durable solar blanket for everyday use or a heavy-duty heat retention cover for maximum insulation, we stock a wide range of options to suit different pool sizes and budgets. Browse our selection below to find the ideal solar swimming pool cover to extend your swimming season and lower energy costs.
We are always ready to offer expert advice on which product would be best for your pool.
Solar Swimming Pool Covers
The climate of the UK makes it essential that pool owners have a cover over their swimming pool to retain the heat of the water. A cover will act like a blanket floating on the surface of the water keeping the warmth in. 90% of the heat loss from a swimming pool is by evaporation from the water surface and a good cover will reduce heat loss due to evaporation by up to 85%. Summer pool covers are made from high quality plastic with “bubbles” on the underside. They are often referred to as bubble covers.
Swimming pool covers don’t just keep the warmth of the pool water in they can also help to heat the water. On a warm sunny day a solar cover can heat the top 4 inches of the water by up to 10 deg C.
Solar swimming pool covers are classified by the thickness of the plastic they are made from. The thickness is measured in microns. The bigger the micron count the longer the cover will last. Cheap cover are 200 microns but they will only last a year or two. PoolStore covers are 400, 500 and 600 microns thick and are guaranteed for 4 and 6 years and you should expect them to last 6 to 8 years if you look after them correctly.
We now only sell cover made from Geobubble material, a patented bubble design for an optimised pool cover material scientifically designed to increase the expected lifespan of the material by up to 25%
If you have an inground swimming pool then you will need a roller to take the cover off and a useful addition is a floating leading edge to make it easy to pull the cover off the roller.
We always try to sell at the lowest prices - if you see one of our products cheaper elsewhere please email us and we will do our best to beat the price.