12-mil Solar Blanket for Round 18-ft Above-Ground Pools - Clear

This solar cover really works! It’s more like 19ft for and 18ft round pool which worked well for me for 2 reasons. 1 being as big as it is it went up the sides of my pool protecting it from flying debris as I was mowing my lawn and 2 it brought my pool temp up over night 6 degrees. My pool went from 81 degrees at the time I put it on at 5pm to 87 degrees by 9 am! Perfect swimming temp! The difficult part was getting it to separate to get it to roll out across the pool. It was easy to remove! Easy to use! This is my 1st season using it so I don’t know about the longevity of it but feel like if you take care of it it will last!

I bought the 12ml clear solar cover for our 18 ft round above ground pool. It is larger than that, but better than too small. I like that it goes up the sides. Maybe helps to keep dirt out. It heats the water all the way down and it stays warm thru the night. If we want the water cooler, we could remove or expose it awhile before getting in. Add more cold water. I prefer it warmer. I definitely recommend this cover. I've had both clear and blue in the past. Still have a smaller clear one we used before purchasing this one. The clear will last years vs the blue.

Works great for keeping leaves, bugs, etc out of my pool, and for retaining the water temperature overnight when it would cool off some otherwise. When we had a couple days of super hot weather (temps over 100) here I actually had to leave this off of the pool because it was getting too hot, it felt like a hot tub! It's not going to work any miracles and heat your pool to the right temperature on its own, but it does definitely make a difference. I have an 18' round pool, and I ended up trimming almost a foot of material off in order to make it fit properly. That wasn't really a big deal to me I guess though, it only took a few minutes with a scissors. Here's a tip... don't just pull this cover off the pool and leave it laying flat on your grass. If you do that for a couple hours, the grass under the cover will be baked by the amplified sun's heat and your grass will be dead. I had a big brown circle of dead grass in my yard for a while. It works better to fold/roll the cover up after you remove it. Here's an update after 2 years. The cover has failed at the seams and is now in multiple pieces. I could have maybe got another year out of it if I was more careful. I'm going to replace it with a cheaper version. I think I'm also going to get a big pipe to roll it up with when removing it.

I will say that as soon as I opened this, I was skeptical. It looked like a bubble wrap you use for shipping, but just a large size & slightly thicker. My kids wanted to pop them 😂 But after one use during summer, I was sold! It kept the pool warm & debris out! It has held through one summer so far & we’ll use it again this summer. The material is durable to my surprise. My only complaint if I had to would be that it is heavy once it’s wet & takes a couple of people to take out of the pool. Otherwise, I would buy again. Hopefully not for a long time, but if something happened to ours, I would purchase again.

The cover itself is very sturdy material. It floats nicely on top of the water. The bad part is that it started coming apart at the seam quickly. It's almost as if whatever they use to glue the seams together isn't very waterproof. Within the first two weeks I could see the seams starting to split in the middle and by then I had thrown away the box that it came in. I made the best of it and was very gentle putting it on and off the pool. I live alone and I'm the only one that uses the pool/ cover. Regardless it ended up coming apart completely at the seam. It didn't work out real well. The cover itself is pretty heavy duty. I was concerned more about the thickness and wasn't thinking about the seams. I'm not sure why they didn't bother to use a better waterproof glue when they assembled this. Didn't even keep the pool warm. Didn't keep the leaves out. It was a lot of money to spend and if I would have kids in the home I would have assumed that they were too rough and damaged it. This is a product that should have been made better. I'm pretty certain that anyone that's bought one and used it three times could tell you that the seams are coming apart. Starts in the middle. And it's so big and heavy it would be very tough to return and they know it.

The product is coming apart at the seams, on the edges and in the middle. I had to cut it to fit my pool. Much too big. However, it warms the water very well.

The cover looks to be well made and hopefully will last numerous seasons. It works very well to keep heat in at night. It definitely helps warm the pool during the day. I purchased the 18 foot model. It’s cut about a foot or so wider, so it drapes slightly over the edge of the pool. There really is no way of securing to the pool though. But don’t be concerned about that. If you have a little water on top of it, along with the natural suction of the water beneath, that will be enough to hold it in place. I live in Iowa and it made it through the Deracho just fine!

Larger than 18 foot pool but edges fold up under edge of pool & it helps keep debris out of pool. The material seems thinner than my previous one but no problems with it thus far & keeps the pool warm when the nights cool down. Keeping my pool temp in the 80s.

I have a very nice 18' above ground pool with a large filter, a heat pump heater and an excellent salt water generator (Zandy Aqua Pure). I usually end up with solar covers that last about 2 years before destructing in some way. I bought this cover and have to say it is the most effective cover I have ever owned. It retains water temp better over night to a noticeable degree and also helps heat the pool on sunny days. It is the thickest I have ever bought. This makes it heavier and so is more difficult to roll up but it is well worth any extra effort. Buy it. I will update this at the end of the season.

Pour ce qui est de la durabilité il est trop tôt pour le dire mais bonne épaisseur semble être de qualité

Starting 3rd season with it. Works as it should. Bit of work because our pool does not have a roller to take on and off but we get out exercise doing it. Well worth it for the keeping the heat in as we live in the northern part of a province in Canada and are close to water so get a lot of wind and short season so this helps a lot.

It really works! First off, it is pretty decent thickness - any thicker and it would be too much for one person to maneuver. But, every (sunny) day the pool DID warm up a few degrees. After 5 days, you could feel warm spots where there wasn't shade. Great buy!

We have only been using this a couple of weeks but it did bring the pool up by around 5 degrees. We ordered the 18 foot because the pool was called an 18 foot round pool. However it was 1 size too big. We cut it down to fit.