Eclipse™ UGIII fabric is incredibly strong and durable. An advanced formulation and superior fabrication methods make it top of the line. No other automatic swimming pool safety cover manufacture offers the following exclusive features:

Exclusive Heat Sealed Webbing

Most automatic pool safety cover manufacturers wrap webbing material around rope and sew it to the cover. Unfortunately, with this attachment method the webbings often fail before the fabric does. (see photo, far right). To solve this problem we invented and patented a process whereby the rope is replaced with a flexible polymer bead and the webbing is heat seal bonded to the cover fabric in one step. This patented process is a substantial improvement over the common webbing attachment method and provides substantially longer webbing life and improved operation of the cover.

In a special patented process, the cover webbing is heat sealed around a polymer bead and welded to the cover fabric in once step. This process melts the webbing, polymer bead and cover into one piece. High denier material and the bonding process make this heat sealed webbing up to 15 times stronger that a standard sewn webbing.

Because the polymer bead is fused to the webbing, it does not stretch and pucker like a sewn webbing with wear points that shorten webbing life. (see photo at right)

Colour matched webbings are an esthetically pleasing option and even longer lasting than white webbing due to the addition of UV colour coatings.

Heat Sealed Webbing: 3 years old

Standard Sewn Webbing: 3 years old

A standard sewn webbing is wrapped around rope and then webbing is sewn to the rope and the cover. Over time, because the rope is not bonded to the webbing, it moves back and forth in it’s sleeve which creates puckering when the cover is stretched onto the roll tube. Over time, these puckers wear against the aluminum tracks and wear out the webbing fabric. (see above)

Pucker points can catch as they feed into the tracks causing cover system lurching, webbing tearing and stress on the roll-up mechanism.

White webbings have little UV protection and can degrade more quickly than the cover fabric.

Exceptionally Long Fabric Life

The Eclipse™ fabric is the most technically advanced material made for automatic pool safety covers today. The heavy duty vinyl and polyester fabric with advanced formula, long-chain molecule plasticizers (LCMP), stay in place longer, providing enhanced durability in the pool environment. When you want the maximum fabric life possible, Coverstar™ Eclipse™ safety cover material is the right choice.

Ultragard III Safety Fabric with LCMP

Standard Vinyl Cover Fabric

An advanced formulation of vinyl using a long-chain molecule plasticizer (LCMP represented by red dots) contributes to a long, useful life of the cover by retaining the flexibility of the material, which in turn helps prevent cracking and leaking.

Standard vinyl cover fabric uses plasticizer molecules (plasticizer represented by red dots) that migrate out of the cover because they are less intertwined with vinyl molecules, which in turn stiffens the material making it more vulnerable to cracking and leaking.