Bestway Flowclear Swimming Pool Cover for Rectangular Steel Pro Pools, Multiple Sizes

Pool cover fitted well for pool and is ideal. Easy to put on and take off. Saves pool from leaves, seed pods etc.

Why did you choose this product over others?:Appalling quality. Don’t go anywhere near this. Stitching coming undone and reinforcing eyelets fall out before you even use it. Also no way of attaching the cover at the corners. Truly cheap and nasty.

First- to be fair, the cover is not the same brand as my pool. I have the intex 3mx2m pool but the intex cover was not available at the time of purchase, so i figured surely one cover would be much like another...?Perhaps not....This is basically a lightweight tarpaulin with shaped corners and some holes in the middle.It is impossible for one person to put it on without the edges / end going underwater, and running round the pool trying to hook on one corner, then another, then the first one comes off.... is like something from a comedy sketch!It has one eye in the middle of each short end, and 2 along each long side. These had metal rings to reinforce them, but one metal ring had already come off when i unpacked it, and 2 more have come off within the first couple of weeks of use, so the holes are now fraying slightly and i fear they would rip under pressure.It came with 6 short lengths of lightweight nylon cord.The eyes do not quite align with the side supports of the pool. Because the cover has a vertical panel / overhang tying it to the side supports does not really secure it well anyway as the cords simply slide up the side poles allowing the cover to shift.Because the cord is thin and smooth nylon it is impossible to knot it tightly- it just slides and the knots loosen themselves, It also started fraying immediately.I bought a different rope and zig zagged it through the eyes and down to the bottom of the side supports where they tuck into the flaps that protrude from under the base of the pool. This is a pain tho as it means i have to thread it and unthread it every time the cover goes on and off. I need to try with bungee cords, but i only have 4 and they are not the right length to be useful.It has no eyes at the corners, and no way to secure the corners, other than that they 'hook over' the corner pieces of the pool frame... but without securing they flip up in any light breeze.When it rains (which is often in the UK!!) water pools on the top and the weight pulls the cover out of place. Quite often i the morning at least one or 2 of the corners have come loose and are dangling in the pool.Again with single person operation it is impossible to get the cover off without it going in the water, so all the 'bits'- leaves, insects etc, that the cover is designed to protect the pool from, end up going in there anyway!! I did try very gently sweeping them off the top before removing the cover, but it's more or less impossible as there is not enough tension in the cover and it just shifts and sinks.I've never had this type of pool before, my only experience is of in-ground pools at places i've lived abroad, which have typically had floating covers on a roller that you pull out and wind up, so maybe this is completely typical, but all i know is that it's a pain in the bum!! lol

Functionality easy to use good quality thick pool cover

We use this on our Bestway 4m pool. It fits just right, but the corners don’t fasten and tend to blow up even though the cover is fastened along the sides and ends of the pool. We have started to use clothes pegs to stop the corners blowing up. We have added little one ended bungees to the legs of the pool to act as easy anchors for the cover. Does not pull tight and flat as the pictures show, the cover rests on the pool, if you were to try to pull it tight the seems would rip, just let it rest on the surface of the pool.

Was quite disappointed with this cover for several reasons.- It is much thinner than I realised before ordering. Very lightweight and easily disturbed by a light/moderate gust of wind.- That actual material that this cover is made from feels very poor quality/cheap and does not appear to be very durable. I will be very surprised if it survives to the end of these Summer holidays.- Fastening points… The cover TIES down with a flimsy piece of strings (which arrives unattached). The ‘eyes’ for the string to attach to are quite low quality and feel quite flimsy. Also, whilst the location of these eyes along the edges do match up to the pole locations, there are no fasten points on the corners which means, because it doesn’t fit snugly/tightly enough, the corners are constantly loose and just blow open all the time, making the whole cover effectively redundant.Overall then, it is pretty poor. Yes, it does fit over the pool adequately - but not tightly and the fastenings are a pain. Some elastic toggles or clips would have been much better than a little piece of string. It also has holes in the centre which I’m sure serves a function (otherwise why would they be there?) but I can’t figure out what that function is.

Fitted perfectly

Woefully poor product. 2nd day on and we have a moderate breeze, no way to tie down the corners and so it's clearly not staying affixed to the corners. It rained today while I was at work and so now the pool is contaminated with rainwater, and leaves. The corners that do tie down are done so on ring fasteners attached to this paper thin tarpaulin which already looks stressed around the fasteners coming out of the box - these rings are tied to pool legs with extremely short length thin thread, fiddly to knot as so short and thin, (think of embroidery thread)Designers should be sacked... this product is should not be sold, it is not fit for purpose.