Diy Bubble Wrap Solar Pool Cover

This type of cover costs less than 125 and can be installed in an hour.

Diy bubble wrap solar pool cover.

Reduce water evaporation and save energy by installing a bubble wrap style solar pool blanket. The solar cover should have the smooth side up bubbles down. This retractable swimming pool cover is made using the basic solar cover and winter cover that came with the tuff pool swimming pool package. Snap a clip on to the solar cover so it fits onto the 1 2 pipe below.

After several days in full sun a pool cover can raise the pool temperature by about 10 to 15 degrees. It sits right on top of the water. The pool cover will usually heat the pool water up by one degree per day. The solar cover is just a sheet of blue bubble wrap.

When the bubble paper pool cover absorbs the suns rays it gradually heats the water in the pool while the cool pool water keeps the solar cover cool. Make sure the pipe end with the male threaded end is at the end where you want the handle to go. Solar pool covers or solar blankets do have some benefits but they also have some drawbacks that you need to be aware of. Solar blankets do reduce evaporati.

Some covers are black for this very reason but the most widely used are made of inexpensive clear plastic that looks like the bubble wrap used for packing. The winter cover is a tarp designed to be cinched around the outer edges of the swimming pool frame.