Let’s Fan Fold That Loop Loc Cover Please!

The proper way to fold and store and in ground or an above ground swimming pool cover is to do what the call a “fan fold”. Basically a fan fold is when you fold the pool cover on top of itself over and over so that stacks nice and neat. We will show you below how to properly fan fold your loop loc pool cover.

You can see here that you will need two people top properly fold the loop loc swimming pool cover or any in ground cover for that matter. You will each want to find a corner or end of the pool cover.

Keep on “walking out the cover” as us pool guys like to call it, until you find the corner or the end of the pool cover as we mentioned above. Don’t worry you will find the end but it might take a few minutes.

Once you each find and end you will want to pull the pool cover towards each of you as you can see in the picture below. This will keep the loop loc cover tight and help the excess water drain off and through the cover.

After you have pulled the cover towards towards yourself like in the photo above you can now at the same time start to pull the pool cover back as show in the picture below. Make sure to keep the pool cover “taught” as you do this.

Once the cover is pulled back you can lay that section down on top of the section of the pool cover that is already laying on the deck or the patio. You will want to make each fold around 3 to 4 feet long and then do the fold as show below.

Keep On  repeating this process, keeping the pool cover pulled towards you and at the same time pulling it back fold it over itself. This is what they call a “fan fold” in the swimming pool industry.

After you fold the cover a few times you will reach the end of the pool cover. You can see in the picture below how the remaining water will drain from the loop loc pool cover once you reach the end. Take the end of the cover and place it on top of the pool cover that is already fan folded.

Once you have reached the end of the pool cover like shown above you can start to gather the end of the cover like show below. The next step after this is to tightly roll up the pool cover as you are about to see.

As you can see below you will want to roll the pool cover nice and tight so you will be able to fit it into the loop loc cover mesh bag that was provided at the time of the cover installation.

We meet in the middle of the cover and then folded one side on top of the other side. This loop loc cover is now fan folded and rolled up tight and ready to be slipped right into the mesh storage bag.

Ah….At last the Loop Loc Cover is all folded and read to go away for storage. Now you will know how pool guys fan fold the loop loc swimming pool cover.