PoolTux 18'x40' Solid Rectangle Ultra Premium Winter Cover, 25 Year Warranty

This is the PoolTux Ultra Premium solid winter cover cut for an 18'x40' rectangle inground pool. The cover itself measures 23'x41', giving the overlap needed to run the edge up onto the deck and hold it with water tubes or anchors.

What Ultra Premium buys you

Three things separate this from a budget cover. The scrim count is 14 x 14, so there are more woven threads carrying the weight of snow and standing water. The coating is the heaviest in the range, and coating thickness is what decides how many seasons the fabric survives before it goes brittle. The edges are bound with commercial grade material and thread, which matters because a winter cover almost always fails at the perimeter first, where the grommets and the wind work on it.

Solid means you need a cover pump

A solid cover blocks sunlight, which keeps algae down over the winter, and it keeps rain and debris out of the pool entirely. The trade is that water collects on top of it. Standing water is heavy and it is what tears covers, so a cover pump left on the cover through the wet months is not optional. The warranty runs 25 years.