News & Tips

Automatic Safety Covers and Slack

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:42:00 -0700

One of the frequently asked questions by most customers upon seeing the Eclipse™ on their pool is “why are there ‘wrinkles’ in the fabric”?. Wrinkles are one of the indications of the slack found in a cover fabric and slack is necessary for an automatic safety cover fabric to function properly. Below is a document provided by Coverstar Inc. that explains in greater detail the reasons for slack in any automatic swimming pool safety cover fabric.

Salt Water and the Eclipse™ Safety Cover

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:09:02 -0700

With the advancement of Chlorine Salt Water Generators, pool equipment manufactures have been working to develop products that interact with salt water pools. With Coverstar™ Canada’s Eclipse™ Stainless Steel Automatic Safety Cover, a salt water pool environment is not a problem. In fact, Coverstar™ has not changed any of its warranty language due to the rapid growth of salt water pools and still fully honors its warranty, as long as proper salt water pool chemistry is maintained.

Coverstar™ Canada’s Stainless Steel Eclipse™ system is the only Automatic Safety Cover that can truly handle the harsher corrosive environment of a salt water pool. Sealed Stainless Steel pulleys and drive shafts ensure water can not penetrate these important parts and the Eclipse™ mechanism’s stainless steel caging ensures long lasting service throughout a salt water pools lifespan.

When deciding to purchase a chlorine salt water generator, or an automatic safety cover for an existing salt water pool, ensure that your pool cover has been built to interact with salt water pools. And remember, always check your manufactures warranty concerning salt water pools and its equipment. At Coverstar™ salt water is not a problem.

Stainless Steel Materials: only with Coverstar

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:19:11 -0700

Homeowners are constantly looking for well-engineered and reliable pool parts that require little or no maintenance to add and enhance their pool ownership experience. With the introduction of Coverstar’s STAINLESS STEEL ECLIPSE Automatic Safety Cover, 35 years of field experience has gone into the development of a superior engineered product that leads the industry.

Once an Automatic pool cover has been placed on a pool, homeowners do not want to have to repair anything. That is why the Eclipse mechanism, torque limiter, gears, rope reel, 2” pulleys, guide feeds and wheel assemblies (for deck mount units) have been engineered with stainless steel materials that are stronger than any others used in the industry. The precision that Coverstar uses in machining these parts allow for smooth operation and many years of durability and use, without the worry and hassle of repairs. Further, the heavy-duty, stainless steel components found exclusively on the Coverstar ECLIPSE System, allow the mechanism to endure even in the harshest pool environments where water and pool chemicals can cause corrosion and reliability issues with pool equipment.

Coverstar’s industry standard-setting engineering provides you with a cover so durable that you can stop worrying about costly repairs and maintenance issues and instead focus on what pool are for - fun.

Coverstar’s Exclusive Heat Sealed Webbing

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:42:34 -0700

With the demand for Automatic Safety Covers on the rise, more manufactures are producing safety covers to try and capitalize on the growing consumer awareness, however not all covers are alike, and Coverstar’s exclusive Heat Sealed Webbing technology is a prime example of this.
  First, why is webbing so important? It is the key component that links an Automatic Safety Cover fabric to the system and is one of the main components that is constantly on the move, cycling through the system track on a daily and hourly basis. Second, it’s one of the main components that is in constant contact with your pools water chemistry and your home’s daily weather patterns, both of which have the potential to damage your webbing and reduce it’s life span. Third, webbing contains the bead that essentially helps lock your fabric into the track channel, keeping it connected to your system when water and/or people add weight to the cover.

So why is Coverstar’s Heat Sealed Webbing so superior to all other systems? Simply put, Coverstar's exclusive heavy-duty heat-sealed cover webbing eliminates the sewing of webbing. In fact, It is almost 20 times stronger than the standard sewn Dacron webbing's used by other manufactures. Couple our stronger webbing with our detachable rope system and our three channel slider system for under the deck systems and our unique wheel/slider assembly for deck mounted systems, and you virtually eliminate torn webbing issues. Further, our heat sealed webbing has been tested during all four seasons under all forms of weather conditions and has proven to withstand the elements and pool chemicals, cycling well over 5000 times without error. Add to this our exclusive, neoprene webbing bead, which removes the cloth rope bead found in other manufactures webbing, and you eliminate rope shrinkage, rope rot & rope breaks, that help to prematurely erode and destroy sewn webbing. Finally, unlike sewn webbing which use clothing stitching to attach the webbing and fabric together, our exclusive heat sealed webbing allows us to thermally bond our webbing and fabric, permanently eliminating stitching rot.

And remember, Coverstar’s Heat Sealed Webbing can be coloured to matched whatever fabric colour you choose, eliminating the unmatched white webbing found on other manufactures fabrics.

Winter and Coverstar Covers

Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:04:40 -0700

In response to a number of inquires about the use of Coverstar Automatic Safety Covers in the winter, the following document has been made available for our Canadian Customers in order to help make a decision
about using Coverstar Covers during the winter.
In response to a number of inquires about the use of Coverstar Automatic Safety Covers in the winter, the following document has been made available for our Canadian Customers in order to help make a decision about using Coverstar Covers during the winter.
Note: the above pictures shows a Coverstar Automatic Cover winterized and buried in snow pack during the winter months in Utah, USA.

Recessed Top Track Auto Covers

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:49:55 -0700

With the pool season underway many homeowners have finalized their new construction and renovation contracts for the summer or may even have a pool shelled and formed for concrete & deck work in their backyard. So what happens when a homeowner reads about a tragic drowning or simply decides that they want that new pool secured, answer; a Recessed Top Guide Auto Cover. A Recessed Top Guide offers the flexibility to cover any design created, even mid-way through a new build, and yet adds the convenience of a hidden mechanical system, which many consumers demand on new construction.

However, Recessed Top Guides are not just for new builds, many homeowners are looking for ways to add new features to their pool when renovating, and a Recessed Top Guide automatic pool cover gives them a product to meet these demands. There is no need for new coping, even the existing deck can be used for the tracks, but now the mechanism can be hidden, which takes the view of the mechanical competent and roll tube out of the line of site in a backyard. Even better is when a pool renovation calls for work to be completed to the pool deck. With the deck and/ or surrounding concrete to be removed or altered, now is the perfect and most convenient time to install an auto cover housing and hide the mechanical components.

So remember, with a Recessed Top Guide Auto Cover, it’s never to late to add a Coverstar auto cover to your existing pool contract.