The benefits of owning a swimming pool equipped with Automatic Retractable Safety Pool Covers are many. Homeowners in the market looking to purchase a swimming pool sometimes are not educated by their pool contractors. Most often they focus on items that are less important for the large investment. A safety auto-cover is one item. The benefits it offers far surpass the cost of buying one, you just need to educate yourself on them. Often consumers don’t purchase it mainly because the contractor does not take the time to educate the consumer on the benefits a safe electric auto-cover offers.
At Gappsi, as experienced pool builders and residential outdoor living designers and builders. We have incorporated and built many backyards with swimming pools equipped with automatic retractable safety pool covers. We have calculated that operating and owning a swimming pool without an auto-cover is. It would cost more than paying principal and financing charges if you have to get financing to install a safety auto-cover on your new swimming pool.
An automatic pool cover is a reliable and convenient way to keep your family safe around the pool. It also is helpful in preserving its water level, chemistry, and heat for longer.
These retractable electric pool covers are effective safety barriers for your children, prevent debris from falling into your pool, and reduce your maintenance and heating costs. With a simple turn of a key or touch of a button, your warm, clean pool will be ready to go for a fun day of swimming.
Heat, Water, and Chemical Retention
While protecting your children is always our top priority, our automatic pool covers do so much more. We use a special fabric and webbing inside the track to insulate your pool
This insulation helps to prevent evaporation and loss of heat. With these covers, you won’t need to top off your pool water quite as often, and the water will stay warmer for longer. This helps you operate your heater more efficiently and keep the pool at a comfortable swimming temperature for a much longer swimming season!
Gappsi retractable pool covers are also opaque, and completely block out sunlight while the pool is closed. Sunlight exposure makes sanitizing chemicals like chlorine break down more quickly in the water, as well as contributes to the growth of algae.
Building a New Pool or Have an Existing pool? Does your pool qualify for an automatic pool cover based on your pool shape and layout?
- New Build – Yes ✔
If you are building a new pool, you can incorporate an automatic pool cover into your build.
- Existing Pool – Maybe?
It will depend on your pool’s shape and deck layout. Read more about the system below to see if your existing pool can accommodate one.
Examples of Pools that CANNOT have automatic covers:
- Raised Walls (some exceptions can be made, see pools that can have auto covers)
- Spas that stick up higher than the pool height
- The deck is not one level – end to end.
- Raised Rocks/ Dive Rocks at the edge of the pool
Examples of Pools that CAN have automatic covers:
- One Level from End to End
- No Changes in Elevation
Other Pool Cover Options
While an electric pool cover for your inground pool is a great option that we highly recommend, we know it is not always the ideal solution for every pool. Other great options are available, including mesh safety covers, pool safety nets, and pool safety fences, which all provide their own unique benefits for you and your loved ones.
Winterizing Automatic Retractable Safety Pool Covers
Although during the winter your pool cover requires less attention, water and/or snow will build up on the cover. If the water level in the pool is not properly maintained, serious damage to the cover can occur. Properly maintaining a pool’s water level prevents excess weight on the top surface of the cover that can cause damage to the cover system.
During the winter, make at least monthly inspections of the pool’s water level and make sure the cover pump is operating properly so that water on top of the cover does not build up. Even a few inches of water on top of the cover is an enormous weight and can pull the cover and guide it into the pool. In situations where the water level is too low, you should add water to the pool immediately to better support the water or ice that is on the cover. Your cover will survive any normal winter if these simple precautions are taken.
Make sure your water is chemically balanced before covering the pool for extended periods of time. Double-check the water after the chemicals had a chance to mix completely. This may require checking the pool water a day or two after chemicals have been added. When covering the pool for long periods of time, turn down ozone generators and chemical feeders to their lowest level. The constant long-term build-up of ozone can damage the fabric. Place the cover pump on the cover to remove melted snow.
Vinyl Pool With AutoCover and Large Natural Stone Pool Pavers
Located in Brightwaters Long Island Gappsi added to an existing 16 x 34 vinyl liner pool built with concrete walls. We built a sundeck on one side of the pool and steps across the entire sundeck with a bench on each side of the stairs. Additionally, we installed two water bubblers on the sundeck and led lights in the pool. Gappsi installed the automatic retractable safety pool covers for the homeowner too.
The patio consists of G045 limestone selected from the Gappsi stone collection roman pattern for the patio and rock-faced tumbled coping for the pool edges. We also built a gas fire pit for the family to enjoy. The wall is veneered with natural stones and the coping is matching to the pool coping with the G045 2 inches of rock-faced and tumbled coping. Latest backyard design and installation by Gappsi.
We completed this project about 4years ago. We installed a new gunite pool 16×36 with a bluestone coping, auto cover and a fiorito travertine patio. The pool has a sundeck. We have lined the steps edges with glass tiles. You can see they reflect light from one side. The pool is a sports pool. The deep end of the pool is the center. This side we have corner stairs. There is a bar area with stools inside the pool. In the lower patio area, chairs can be used as stools on the outside. This is a sunken fire pit area with a bench and gas fire pit. On this we have a semi raised patio. The property slopes so the pool was built a step down from the original house patio. This is a gas fire pit used more as an accent and this is also a sitting area. The property sits on a beautiful lake. The house is about 100 years old. We faced the walls of the pool to match the original bricks of the house to make it look like it’s been here as long as the house has been here. Gappsi is a complete backyard designer from landscaping, masonry and gunite and vinyl swimming pools, home remodeling and construction, synthetic turf, sports courts, putting greens, basketball courts, bocce courts and dog run playgrounds.. Gappsi knowledgeable and experienced personnel can help you create the yard of your dream. We also provide These services in the following areas of Eastern Long-Island – Western long-Island – North-Shore long-Island – South-Shore long-Island, Suffolk County, Nassau County, Glen Cove, Hempstead, North Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Babylon , Huntington, Islip, Smithtown, Brookhaven, Southampton, Riverhead, East Hampton, Southold, Old Brookville, Old Westbury, Mill Neck, Nissequogue, Lloyd Harbor, Muttontown, Coldspring Harbor, East ,Norwich and both Nassau and Suffolk County
We build a 20×50 Gunite pool with an auto cover. The Color of the auto cover is green. We installed a sundeck in the corner of the pool in the shallow area with 2 Bubblers. We installed porcelain tiles in the water line. The finish of the pool is diamond bright super blue. We installed the diving board with a fly deck we did a 2inch coping of the G43 sand blasted and brushed marble. One of the most beautiful stones on the market. It is a combination of beige and browns, and shades. the sundeck has steps on 2 sides and the space left between the sundeck and the wall is a swim lane. The swimmers can flip and turn on the flat wall. we built a custom fireplace that has not been used yet it was just completed. We veneered it with clay brick veneer and firebricks for the fireplace chambers with the bluestone caps and mental This is our beautiful passion spa first one we sold next one is coming to the showroom. This is our latest project just completed. Another happy customer.
This is a gunite pool that we built in Smithtown NY. It is a 20×40 with a spa and a sundeck. The sundeck has two led lights bubblers that we programmed in red and the spa in magenta color. The pool has led lights along one side and led laminars two on each side of the pool. We installed Italian porcelain for the patio and bluestone coping for the pool and marble coping for the spa. The pool is equipped with an auto cover and the rest of the backyard is paved with synthetic grass.
20×55 Gunite pool totally completed with the patio and the landscaping. The pool has a spa, and a sundeck. The finish is a super blue quartz diamond bright, we installed bluestone coping for the swimming pool, autocover box and spa. There is a diving board and an auto cover. We did a stand ledge along one side of the pool. This way the kids from the diving board can just go to the right, step on the ledge and walk to the steps. The patio pavers are Gappsi natural stones.
The pool is complete except for the patio around. We installed the porcelain pavers for water line tiles, Installed Indiana limestone as the coping. Laminar Jets, spillover water bawls and sheer descends in raised sundeck in the back. The sundeck with steps and the spa is raised from the water.
Backyard Design Gunite pool, this is the complete project. One of the nicest designs and builds we have done and one of the best customers we ever worked for. We used the G44 Gappsi blue limestone for the entire patio. The pool is a 30×50 gunite pool geometrical freeform. We installed 2 water spill over pots and the fire features. the pool has a sundeck with a bubbler. It has a grotto with sheer descends and a bench underneath. The grotto is also used for the kids to dive into the deep end of the pool. It has also a slide custom build into the landscaping. for the side we have self contained waterfall pond less with natural rocks. We have steps to go up to the top of the grotto for the kids to jump out of. This patio area next to the waterfall is for a daybed. The coping was installed with tumbled silver travertine and all the veneers on the walls are split face silver travertine. The spa is elevated out of the pool to create a spill over or just used as a spa to get the water to be 104 degrees. We built a 
Gappsi installed this gunite pool in Roslyn Heights Nassau county on Long Island. That is 25×60 with an elevated spa that spills over into the pool on all four sides. You have a step down to the sundeck area with 12 inches of water on the sundeck for people to put chairs, then they can enter the spa. Then we have steps to go to the shallow area of the pool with a bench in front of the spa. The deepest part of the pool is just 5ft. It’s going to be a walkable pool. In the back we have a raised area with sheer descends coming out of it. We are going to start filling in the pool tomorrow with water after we acid wash it. We are using Tahoe-blue diamond bright as a finish for the pool shell, Indiana limestone for the coping and the spa and six inches waterline porcelain tiles under the coping. The guys are finishing smoothing out the last details. We put an inlay of tiles with the design of dolphins swimming around a ball. This is gappsi’s latest project about to be finished.
Pool & Masonry Contractor serving Huntington Bay NY, 11743 This project was designed by Giuseppe Abbrancati and installed by Gappsi at a fully custom built luxury home in the secluded area of Huntington Bay on Long Island. Simple, clean lines, and elegant design incorporates a 20×40 gunite swimming pool with many features. It includes a built-in spa, finished with waterline porcelain tiles and a blue 
Backyard And Pool Designer in Mount-Sinai NY, please contact Gappsi. This large free-form vinyl lined