PoolTux King99 16 x 32 ft Mesh Safety Cover with Left Step, Green, CSPTGMP16322

Built for a 16 x 32 ft rectangular pool with the step on the left, this King99 panel measures 18 x 34 ft. The extra foot on each side is what rests on the deck and anchors, and the step area is cut 8 ft wide by 4 ft back at the water line.

• Green mesh that drains itself, so the cover never carries standing water or needs a pump.
• Straps on a 5 ft grid, held down by Tension-Tech springs against flush mount brass anchors.
• Chafing strips at the edge take the wear where the cover crosses the coping.
• The weave blocks 99 percent of ultraviolet light, which keeps algae from making headway.

A safety cover spends the winter moving. Wind lifts the fabric, cold shrinks it, sun in a warm week loosens it again, and all of that motion concentrates at the coping where the webbing crosses the pool edge. The chafing strips and the springs are the parts that deal with it: the strips take the abrasion, the springs hold tension through the range. What is left for the owner is a look every so often at whether the straps are even and whether the water underneath has climbed, since mesh puts every rainfall into the pool. The warranty is 20 years limited, 5 of them full.