PoolTux King 18 x 36 ft Light Weight Solid Safety Cover with Center Step, Green, CSPTGSL18361

This King panel is made for an 18 x 36 ft rectangular inground pool with the step centered on one end. The fabric runs 20 x 38 ft, so a foot of material reaches the deck at every edge once the straps are tensioned, and the step panel is 8 ft across and 4 ft back from the pool at the water line. It is a solid cover, so the green sheet stops both rain and daylight.

• Solid fabric listed at 7 oz per square yard with a burst strength of 350 PSI.
• A drain channel runs the length of the panel, with a mesh drain panel built in to clear standing water.
• A cover pump is the other way of moving water off a solid cover, and PoolTux lists it as such.
• Built at roughly half the weight of a full weight solid.
• Straps sit on a 5 by 5 ft grid through commercial springs.
• Brass anchors and collars tamp flush into the deck and retract with a hex key.

ASTM F1346 is where the difference between a safety cover and a winter cover is written down. Section 4 puts winter covers in the other covers group, not intended as a barrier for children under five, and only a safety cover has to pass the section 7 tests: 485 lb on a panel on a pool wider than 8 ft, applied as 210, 225 and 50 lb over one square foot each inside a 3 ft radius. Section 8.12 requires the label to state the classification.