Every year swimming pools are wasting BILLIONS of gallons of water that could be saved, and it's time to make a change. There is a better way for covering pools to save water. Half covers are the industries solution to water conservation.

The Problem with Whole Covers is Solved !

Why aren't all pools using a cover? The overwhelming limitation to cover usage is that historically the only device sold for handling pool covers has been the deck reel, an expensive bulky towel rack like device that sits at the end of the pool consuming valuable deck space. The problem with deck reels is they do not handle curvy free-form pool covers very well, or pools with limited or no deck space, but for the most part are only good for rectangular inground or oval/round aboveground pools. All the other custom free-form pools have been going without...until now.

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That said, as things stand today, less than 30% of all backyard swimming pools have a solution for taking the covers on and off the pool, which is much like having invented breakthrough inflatable rubber tires for the auto industry, but no jack to remove them with. And in the wake of water shortages and rationing in many parts of the country there is a pressing need to require pools to conserve water with a pool cover, yet nothing really has been offered as a practical solution for handling custom shaped covers...until now.

For all those millions of pools without a jack, there is an innovative product that can assist in the removal and handling of half pool covers for pools that can't use a deck reel. Because most custom free-form pools cannot use a traditional deck reel, many of those pool owners are already splitting their bulky pool covers to make them easier to remove by hand, and are doing so at the advice of pool shops who want to sell them a cover, but cannot sell them a reel. The Split-Cover System™ just takes this a step further and is completely different from anything on the market today.

Leading the Way: Efforts to change the way pools are covered will revolutionize the distribution and stocking of pool covers, leading the industry to change it's distribution model which will dramatically conserve precious water. In the half cover distribution world, retailers and wholesalers will never be out of stock utilizing the revolutionary just in time stock on hand half cover distribution model. Retail stores will more than ever have an incentive and the ability to stock covers at the store for immediate sale, rather than special order from the warehouse requiring customers to come back for pickup, and Wholesalers will move more inventory out of the warehouse and into stores. The customer will be able to get what they want, when they want it. And the warehouse will benefit because they can enjoy the same profit margins, but move stock immediately out to retailers rather than waiting for delivery in their space constrained warehouses.

About the Rolling Device

The key to the innovative half cover solution is the patented Split-Cover System™ that rolls half the cover at a time, so almost all pools up to L-shapes are able use a pool cover. The patented system comes with two individual free-floating Solar Rollers that are fastened directly to the underside of the buoyant half covers, each roller spanning the middle of each half cover. Custom locking fasteners are used that button the rollers to the covers and are removable if you wish to detach the covers in the off season. The lightweight free-floating adjustable length rollers span across the middles of each half cover (similar to how reels are placed across the middle of a round pool) but are directly fastened to the underside of the cover. The rollers are supported entirely by the buoyancy of the cover, so nothing attaches to the pool and is completely free-floating with the cover.

To operate the system, the customer just pops on a removable crank handle to one end of the roller tube to begin the rolling process. By turning the crank, the roller pulls both ends of the cover into the middle to wrap around itself right on the water, resulting in nice compact floating roll that, once the water drains from the end, weighs less than a three year old child, and is easy to handle. When not in use the device is completely hidden so is not an eye sore to your beautiful backyard pool setting that you paid so much for.

Being adjustable, the actual Solar Roller ® Cover Stick ™ rolling device is a single SKU one-size-fits-all device for backyard pools up to 20x40ft, and comes bar-coded ready for retail in a box that weighs only 8lbs with dimensions of 42x5x3 inches. There is over 42ft of adjustable tube to a system to use what you need. At six systems to a shipping case, the case weighs under 50lbs and is easy to stock for stores taking up almost no room compared to bulky deck reels that come in two separate boxes with heavy tubes over six feet in length. So then this product already has a great advantage for distribution and stocking in the stores.

In short, this innovative split cover remedy adapting half pool covers to so many pools requires no deck space, accommodates almost any shape pool up to L-shape pools, is light/compact and completely hidden, and is easy enough that a kid can do it in under thirty seconds. The switch to half pool covers endeavors to help the millions of custom pool owners by providing them a practical solution and a choice they never had before to help us all do a better job at conserving precious water.

Thank you,

David Hoff , Inventor CEO
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