{"id":644,"date":"2010-11-15T18:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcitypools.wordpress.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2012-06-20T17:59:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T22:59:02","slug":"when-safety-covers-are-not-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/when-safety-covers-are-not-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"When Safety Covers Are Not\u00a0Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many homeowners prefer to use a safety cover<\/a> rather than a winter cover when preparing the pool for the\u00a0winter months.\u00a0 Safety covers protect the pool, but they also help\u00a0prevent submersion and drowning accidents should a child or pet wander out onto the cover.\u00a0 A proper\u00a0safety cover can support a minimum of 485 pounds per 5 square feet, according to the American Society for Testing and Materials’ (ASTM) standard F1346-91.\u00a0 If that safety cover is torn or in any other way damaged, though, it is no longer a reliable barrier.<\/p>\n

Purchasing a new safety cover to replace a damaged one is not always necessary.\u00a0 Safety covers can be repaired<\/a> for much less than a new cover would cost, so investigating this as a viable option is recommended.\u00a0 Make sure that the company who will perform the repairs is well-recognized\u00a0for quality workmanship.\u00a0 And, use a company that will pay for the\u00a0shipping of\u00a0your safety cover in both directions — from you to the company, and then back to you again once the repairs have been made.<\/p>\n

If damage to a pool safety cover is beyond repair, then purchasing a new one is necessary.\u00a0 A safety cover cannot be\u00a0trusted as a reliable safety\u00a0barrier if it is damaged in any way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many homeowners prefer to use a safety cover rather than a winter cover when preparing the pool for the\u00a0winter months.\u00a0 Safety covers protect the pool, but they also help\u00a0prevent submersion and drowning accidents should a child or pet wander out onto the cover.\u00a0 A proper\u00a0safety cover can support a minimum of 485 pounds per 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[420,273,274],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pool-and-spa-safety","category-pool-closing-and-winterizing","tag-pool-and-spa-safety","tag-safety-cover-repair","tag-safety-covers-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-ao","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}