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MLB | NFL | Safety Covers | Winter Covers Installation Tips. Inground Swimming Pool Cover Installation: If you have one of the swimming pool covers that requires water tubes to hold it down. Fill all of the water tubes approximately three quarters of the way full (this will allow for ice expansion and preventing damage to your water tubes) make sure you have enough water tubes, so that they touch each other continuously, all around the pool.
Now you can spread the swimming pool cover over the pool.
Make sure the least three-foot extra of cover around the perimeter of the pool. Now you can slide the water tubes all on to the copper. (It is not recommended that you use the swimming .
If the water tubes are in the loops and the cover should blow in the pool during the winter. It will be almost impossible to pull the cover back up on the deck for reinstallation). If you have a cover pump placed it in the center of the pool cover. All solid pool covers have a tendency to leak slightly, so be careful in the winner that water doesn’t transfer from in the pool to the top of the cover and be pumped off.
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From: (Safety Pool Covers) http://www.1800pools.com/Swimming_Pool_Covers.html