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Safety, convenience and energy saving – this
Dripool overcoping cover in an attractive
outdoor location sums up the popularity now
of automatic pool covers
POOL COVERS
immune to the downturn?
Automatic pool covers have a triple consumer benefit – safety
convenience and energy savings which probably explains why automatic
pool covers are proving more popular and seemingly immune to any
pool building downturn. Today everyone with a pool wants an
automatic cover which makes the consumer more demanding
he slump in pool sales has left at least Many manufacturers, retailers and Says Ian McMath: ”With our main
T
one aspect of the industry unscathed: builders report that cover sales are up, launch of the new Driglide Infinity Cover,
the market for covers. By most from 10% to 15%. both trade and end user alike seemed to
accounts, the product has become immune One thing helping drive the growth in be singling Dripool out to source more
to discouraging news. pool covers is a renewed focus on safety. information on how Dripool have finally
Whether it’s for safety, convenience, Pool owners across the country increasingly ‘gone round the bend’ with our fully
aesthetics or energy savings – or a want multiple layers of protection to automatic, under coping safety cover,
combination of all four – the fact is that decrease the risk of drowning. designed specifically to ensure safety,
traditional and automatic pool covers are The effects of natural wear and tear on cleanliness and heat retention on an
proving more popular to consumers covers also helps keep business brisk. infinity edged pool.”
every year. While safety concerns are important to Another trend appears to be towards
consumers, so is saving energy in today’s renovation of existing pools, both
greener political and social climate. Less domestic and small commercial. Dripool‘s
water evaporates from a pool with a expertise in retrospective installation with
cover, especially an automatic one that all works taking place away from the pool
can be easily unfurled. A pool with a area causing minimum disruption and
cover is also easier to keep chemically newly developed “big drive” system for
balanced and warm. existing pools up to 30 x 10 metres is in
A common complaint of builders used to demand.
be that the demand to incorporate a pool Dripool Ltd are the UK’s only designers
cover in the design limited their creativity. and manufacturers of fully automatic covers
But a few manufacturers make automatic with over 100 years of combined experience.
covers that can accommodate almost any “We pride ourselves on offering an
vessel shape – even vanishing-edge pools entire project management service from
– which makes it easier to sell the feature inception through to commissioning. All
to the consumer. systems are fully automated and are
Pool cover specialist Dripool found the designed to keep the pool completely safe
biggest increase in interest at the recent and clean when not in use, whilst retaining
Ian McMath from Dripool: “We pride ourselves on
SPATEX stand was for the infinity edged the heat in the pool,” adds Ian.
offering an entire project management service” pool covers. The Dripool over coping system is the
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