Greetings:
We bought our current home a year and a half ago, and it came with a pool. We're learning the ins and outs of pool maintenance--I have even replaced the pump motor, thanks to INYOpools--but we're having a problem that has me stuck--like our pool cover.
We have an automatic pool cover, which is great, as we have small children. It worked all last year, and part of this year, but is now getting stuck when closing--opening works fine. As you can see in the pictures below, it's getting bound up on the left side/cover motor side. It's like taking a nylon rope with a core, and pulling that core, while holding the outer sheathing; it gets bunched up and stuck from going any further into the track guides:
https://goo.gl/photos/wYk2DD5E3p9HnBae7
https://goo.gl/photos/BWJ4s1kj7rnfZxYx5
What we end up having to do is have one person turn on the motor for a second, feed the cover into the guides, and then go down to the other end of the pool and pull it tight, so that it is balanced with the other side:
https://goo.gl/photos/QeapkqhxgQCPCFmg9
It's a bit of a pain as it takes a half hour to close along with a lot of tugging and pulling. Any idea what is going on here? I believe that the cover is original, so it's around 20 years old, but we're hoping to get a few more years out of it.
Thanks,
Eric
