Pool Covers Melbourne
Made to Measure for Melbourne
Give us your pool’s dimensions and we do the rest: every cover is Australian-made, cut to order, dispatched within 2 business days and delivered free across Melbourne and Victoria — tracked by StarTrack Express from factory to front door.
Exact pricing comes from the Pool Cover Wizard — your measurements in, your price out, ordered in minutes.
Stretching the Melbourne Season
Melbourne gives a pool maybe five good months — a pool blanket hands back several weeks of them, lifting the water +4–7 °C in summer and +3–4 °C in spring while cutting evaporation by 97%+.
Ours are built to keep doing it — Australian materials, high-grade UV stabilisers, built-in resistance to damage from pool chemicals. How they compare with imports is laid out in our guide to Australian-made vs imported covers
Running a heat pump? Our 5 mm foam thermal covers are designed to hold that hard-won warmth through Melbourne nights.
- Let Us Measure Your Pool Right Now
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- Sizing & Shape to Match Your Pool
- Huge Savings on Pool Shop Prices
- Premium Australian Quality
- Free Delivery - Next Day Dispatch
- Real Warranties - Up to 12 Years
Outstanding Advice & After Sales
Our customer support is second to none – users rave about how we don’t rest until every issue is solved to their satisfaction.
Highest Customer Satisfaction
We currently boast an industry leading client review rating of 4.9 with Google. Clients most appreciate our speed and pre sales advice.
Secure & Safe Online Shopping
Clients receive a unique transaction ID directly from Pay Pal (even if paying by credit card). Don’t receive the goods? Refunds are simple.
Fast Free Aerial Pool Measure Service — We Will Recommend Cover Sizing
Completed in only 2 hours
We recommend the right cover size and shape from high-resolution aerial images — taken regularly from aircraft.
Over 95% of Australian homes are already imaged, and we measure to within 5–10 cm.
- Submit your details below to get our sizing assessment and discount pricing within 2 hours
- Floating Solar Covers Vs. Tie Down Covers? - Distinct Strengths
| Key Issues for Pool Owners | Floating Solar Covers | Tie-Down Mesh Covers |
|---|---|---|
 Keeping Out Leaves / Debris |
 50-75% |
 100% |
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Time To Remove / Put Back |
2 & 2 minutes |
 5 & 15 minutes |
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Reduces Maintenance Work |
Yes |
Maximum |
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Evaporation Reduction |
98% |
50% |
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Summer Water Temp |
Increases 6-8oC |
Increases 3-4oC |
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Added Safety |
 Marginal |
Considerable |
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Compatible with a roller |
100% |
If required |
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Australian Quality |
? Depends on what and where you buy |
100% |
Fast Aerial Pool Measurement and Quote
We can recommend cover sizing and shape, based on High-Resolution Images (already taken from aircraft).
A fast and free, same day service
A Pool Express Exclusive
We access High-Resolution Aerial Imagery (taken regularly from low level aircraft) – 95% of Australian homes have been imaged.
We can measure your pool within an accuracy of around 5 to 10cm. That is far greater accuracy than could be achieved from “Google Earth views”.
We can then recommend cover sizing – We can even design your cover. Simply provide your details in the form below.
- Submit your details below:
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You will receive our assessment &
suggestions today
Our report will also include discount prices for the highest grades of pool covers on the Australian market
- Submit your details below:
- You will receive our assessment and suggestions today
Our report will also include discount prices for the highest grades of pool covers on the Australian market
Pool Cover Benefits
One Pool Cover - Many Benefits
A cover will offer all pool owners multiple benefits. The durability of our covers means you can enjoy these benefits for years to come.
A summary of the main benefits will include those shown below:
To enjoy those benefits you will need a good and reliable roller in order to deal with the cover on a daily basis. We offer a range of well designed and thoroughly tested roller models to suit various pool sizes and design style preferences.
- A longer and more enjoyable swimming Season
The gain in average water temperature can transform how your pool is used. You can start swimming much earlier in the swimming season (and also much later).
You will also be tempted to use your pool much more often during the regular swimming season.
- Almost total elimination of evaporation water loss
Most Australian pools suffer serious daily water loss from evaporation, especially during summer.
A good cover will almost eliminate evaporative water loss altogether (by around 98%). This not only saves cost, it saves work and stress having to constantly monitor the pool’s water level during dry periods.
- Less work with leaves - You can even use a garden blower
A pool cover can make a dramatic difference to the work of dealing with leaves. A pool cover will keep leaves “above the pool” and out of the water.
If leaves do not just later “blow away” in the next strong wind, you might just “blast these away” occasionally with a garden blower. Not even an option without a cover.
- Reduced chemical and treament expenses
You can expect a cover to eventually pay for itself from savings on other pool costs. Putting a cover on a pool is one-step away from having an indoor pool.
With care, you can certainly reduce filter running times, chlorine dosage and other chemical requirements.
How does a pool actually lose heat?
Your pool will gain significant heating from the effect of sunlight simply striking our pool cover. But further heat gain benefits result from the ability to “retain heat”.
Most pool owners do not realise how much pools can “chill” every day (and especially overnight) by heat lost from evaporation alone.
Worsening the situation – the warmer you pool gets, the greater the evaporation and heat loss. Water temperatures far lower than ideal are the natural result.
Why Quality Matters
Don't Waste Work & Money
- Wasted, Early, and Repeated Expenses
Experienced pool owners agree: Investing in a high-quality pool cover is a smart decision.
- While cheaper options may need replacement every 18-36 months, superior covers can last nearly a decade. This longevity not only saves money in the long run but also spares pool owners the frequent hassle of purchasing and installing new covers.
- While cheaper options may need replacement every 18-36 months, superior covers can last nearly a decade.
- This longevity not only saves money in the long run but also spares pool owners the frequent hassle of purchasing and installing new covers.
Cover Quality - How Other Covers Fail Early:
- Poor Quality Ingredients - Covers Damaged Quickly by UV and Pool Chemicals
- Poor Quality Ingredients - Covers Damaged by UV and Pool Chemicals
While various pool covers may appear similar, such as “blue plastic bubbles,” they can be made from substantially different ingredients. This significantly impacts the cover’s performance and durability.
Our covers utilize an optimal combination of anti-oxidants (to resist damage from pool chemicals) and UV inhibitors (for years of protection in outdoor sunlight).
- Poor Design From the Start
Each brand of pool covers has its own distinctive bubble profile, which plays a crucial role in determining its lifespan.
Our bubble design is optimized for performance and maximum durability, a level of detail often overlooked by other manufacturers.
- Rapid, Poor Quality Manufacture
To save costs, inferior covers often employ overly rapid manufacturing techniques and pay little attention to quality control. This compromise typically leads to lower cover quality and durability.
The material formulation of our covers, particularly the anti-oxidants, results in a high-quality and consistent product after the high-temperature molding and formation process.
- Australian Covers Universally Better than Imports
Based on our experience, all Australian-made pool covers are significantly more reliable than imported covers, which are primarily sourced from China and available online through forums such as eBay, Temu and Catch.
Of course, there is nothing inherently wrong with products made in China. However, when it comes to pool covers, these products are manufactured at the lowest possible expense, resulting in severely compromised quality. Such covers should be treated as “semi-disposable,” requiring frequent replacement, accompanied by substantial work and mess each time.
- 100% Made in Australia
Melbourne Pool Cover Guide
Melbourne Pool Covers, Grade by Grade
Think in seasons: each micron grade is warranted for the years it’s built to serve, so the table reads as a menu of lifespans with prices attached.
GradeWarranty
Pro-rataTypically
Used For
As a guide, our Australian-made solar covers run from $14 per square metre (250 micron) to $25 per square metre (600 micron top-of-range) — your exact price depends on your pool’s shape and size. Our Pool Cover Wizard gives you an instant figure in under a minute. Compare those rates with any pool shop retail quote and you’ll see how we offer both better value and advice.
Also available: 5 mm foam thermal covers from $39/m² — Our solar covers already provide excellent insulation and help retain pool heat. Our thermal covers take this a step further. They are most often used on pools heated by a heat pump, where reducing overnight heat loss is more important than gaining heat from direct sunlight.
Even Melbourne’s mild summers drain a pool
Melbourne evaporates less than the northern capitals — and an uncovered 8 × 4 m pool here still loses around 46,000 litres a year on long-term Bureau of Meteorology figures: more water than the pool holds.
What it costs depends on your retailer — Melbourne’s three water companies all run tiered pricing, and higher-use households pay the upper rates — but a year of evaporation can reach roughly $275 in top-up water.
The bigger prize here isn’t the water, it’s the season: a cover adds up to seven degrees through a Melbourne summer — 97%+ less evaporation, weeks more swimming at both ends, and a purchase that repays itself within a couple of summers.
How much difference does a cover make in Melbourne?
Measured in degrees: +4–7 °C in summer, +3–4 °C in spring. Even four extra degrees effectively turns a Melbourne pool into a Queensland one — and in practice it means opening weeks earlier and swimming weeks later.
Most of a pool’s heat escapes through evaporation, so the same cover that adds warmth also stops it leaving — which is why the gain holds on cool nights, not just sunny days.
Warranty & Peace of Mind
Every grade is backed pro-rata — 3 through 12 years — and claiming is simple anywhere in Australia: a few photos by email, handled by us or taken straight to ABGAL, the manufacturer with 40+ years behind the product.
Pool Express has been by far Australia’s leading retailer of ABGAL pool covers across 20+ years of trading.
Cut to order, delivered free
Melbourne covers are custom-cut at our Australian factory and dispatched within 2 business days, then travel with StarTrack Express — tracking emailed at dispatch, delivery free to every suburb and across Victoria.
No showroom mark-up, no middleman — the cover comes straight from the maker’s floor to your door.
Your pool, measured free from the air
Don’t know your dimensions? Send the street address and we’ll take the measurements from high-resolution aerial imagery, sizing the most economical cover for your pool.
Free, no site visit — the report is usually back with you the same day.
Simply submit one of the forms on our website and provide your street address. We’ll zoom in on your backyard and provide our report the same day.
Custom-shaped pool? We template on-site
Our Pool Tex tie-down mesh covers seal the entire pool off from leaves and debris — the off-season answer for leafy suburbs. Rectangles order online; curved and free-form Melbourne pools can book our on-site service, where a specialist takes a digital template and the cover is made to that exact outline.
Above-ground? Leaf Stop is ready to ship, straight over the top.
