Swimming Pool Enclosures

Any swimming pool open to the atmosphere will lose water through evaporation right throughout the year.  The rate of evaporation will naturally be slower during the colder months and considerably higher during the warmer months and warmer days in any month.  Also, the larger the water surface area of your swimming pool, the greater the amount of water that will evaporate.  And if you have a pool heater operating, the increased temperature of the water in your pool will raise the rate of evaporation no matter what the season of the year.

This results in the need to replenish the water in your swimming pool on an on-going basis with a more frequent need for topping up the water during summer and other warm periods.

And therein lies one of the “hidden” costs of owning a swimming pool – the additional cost of water consumption at your home.

As we become more environmentally-aware as a society, we realise that we need to conserve our water resources as best we can.  Any steps that we can take as individuals will help our environment, will assist our community to preserve our society’s sources of water, and will reduce our own personal costs of water consumption. A swimming pool enclosure, therefore, is a magnificent way to assist with these aims.

Note that an enclosure doesn’t stop evaporation of water in your swimming pool from happening.  However, when an enclosure is closed it is considerably, though not entirely, sealed and water that evaporates from the swimming pool becomes trapped inside the enclosure.  Much of the evaporated water will condense on the inside of the enclosure and drip off or down the inside of the enclosure and back into the swimming pool.  You therefore retain much of the water level in your pool.

And this has an added benefit that your swimming pool enclosure becomes considerably self-cleaning on the inside.

With a swimming pool enclosure, the overall loss of water from your pool through evaporation is considerably reduced.  And you won’t need to top up the water level of your pool as much nor as frequently as you would without an enclosure.

Save water for the environment and the society!  And get a return on your investment in a swimming pool enclosure by saving on the cost of water consumption!

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Pool heaters are a terrific way to extend your use of your swimming pool during the colder times of the year.  But if you have a swimming pool enclosure, the natural solar heating that flows through your enclosure will help you save on heating costs.  And you won’t need to keep your heater active anywhere near as long. 

If your covering of your enclosure is composed of polycarbonate, your enclosure will permit heat energy from the sun’s radiation to penetrate to the inside of the enclosure.  While some of this heat will reflect off the surface of the water and re-exit the enclosure, much of it remains inside and causes the temperature of both the water and the air inside the enclosure to rise.  The warmer layer of air trapped inside the enclosure above the water assists to keep the water even warmer.  Even as the air outside the enclosure cools at night, the air inside will not drop in temperature anywhere near as much.

Even as the seasons turn beyond summer to the cooler autumn and towards the colder winter, a significantly higher water temperature can be maintained inside your enclosure.  Swimming with your enclosure closed as seasonal temperatures drop allows greater retention of heat.  If, during winter for example, you activate your pool heater, you won’t need to keep the heater on for anywhere near as long to produce the water temperature you desire.  Instead of heat dissipating from the water into the air and getting lost, much of whatever heat dissipates into the air will be retained within the enclosure covering.

Before you purchase your swimming pool enclosure, review the range of polycarbonates available. Different polycarbonates allow differing amounts of heat to penetrate through the enclosure.  Weigh this against the other benefits of each polycarbonate type before you finally settle on the one you want.

With a swimming pool enclosure, you’ll enjoy warmer swimming water for a longer period throughout the year, with or without a pool heater.  Indeed, depending upon the climate where you live, maybe you won’t need a pool heater at all!!!

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The swimming pool enclosure industry’s use of the term “swimming pool enclosure” contrasts with terminology found in swimming pool legislation and regulations within various English-speaking countries around the world.  Governments, local governments in particular, tend to use the phrase “swimming pool enclosure” more loosely and usually they mean a pool fence or fence-like structure erected to surround a swimming pool. This particular meaning is usually applied in the context of mandating minimum pool safety requirements.  Such regulatory use of the term does not refer particularly to a structure which overhangs a swimming pool and which can therefore totally enclose the pool.   For this reason, “swimming pool enclosure” in such legislative contexts is often both potentially misleading and a misnomer.  A strong argument exists in these instances for legislative or regulatory changes to be introduced to reflect more up-to-date commercial meanings and usage.

It should be noted, too, that in places where there are such regulations, fencing companies also frequently refer to some of their fencing products as “swimming pool enclosures” even though their fencing products are clearly not intended to “enclose” a swimming pool but rather surround or partly-surround a pool.  In this way, fencing companies are simply reflecting the regulatory use of the term, promoting their product as complying with the laws of the area.

Unfortunately, and until they appropriately alter their legislation / regulations with correct terminology, public authorities contribute a considerable amount of confusion for swimming pool owners with their inaccurate use of the term “enclosure” to essentially mean a pool fence that “surrounds” a swimming pool.

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