If you have an in-ground swimming pool, you may want to consider getting a cover for it. However, there is a variety of swimming pool cover options that you have to choose from. You basically have four choices of swimming pool covers.

* Solar Swimming Pool Covers

* Leaf Net Swimming Pool Covers

* Winter Swimming Pool Covers

* Safety Swimming Pool Covers

Which pool cover you select depends mostly on the benefit you want from it. In fact, you might even want multiple pool covers to satisfy multiple problems or needs.

Leaf Net Swimming Pool Covers

Leaf nets are basically large nets that are meant to capture only leaves. They are not going to do a good job of keeping much else out. In my experience, very few people are ever interested in a leaf net, and the only people who want one are those who have large amounts of trees and need to keep the leaves out even during the summer. If you want to cover your pool for the winter, go ahead and look into a regular winter cover or maybe a safety cover.

Winter Swimming Pool Covers

Winter covers are essentially giant tarps that you use to cover your pool when you close it for the winter. You can purchase them in the size meant for your pool.

Keep in mind that the actual size of the tarp is larger than the size of the pool so that you have a sufficient amount of cover on the perimeter to hold it down, either with water bags or some other sort of weight. The water bag type of weight can be a bit of a hassle and messy, but on the upside, you don’t have to worry about what would happen if it fell in the pool.