Why you should consider Main Drain Cover Replacement
Non-compliant Swimming Pool Drain Cover
Do you know the importance of proper pool and spa drain covers? Well…improper pool and spa drain covers can be incredibly dangerous and are known to result in the drowning deaths of children and adults. Long haired children or adults have had their hair sucked into the drain holes and become trapped or tied to the drain when unable to untangle their hair.
Drain Entrapment is the result of a swimmer’s hair, limbs, body or clothing becoming entangled in a faulty or flat drain or grate. The best way to make sure Entrapment does not happen is to prevent it before it happens by installing federally-compliant drain covers and inspecting your drain covers regularly to ensure they are properly installed.
Regular drain cover inspection to make sure it’s not missing or broken is crucial to the safety of users of your swimming pool
Named for the seven year-old granddaughter of Secretary of State James Baker III, who drowned due to just such an entrapment, the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act was put in place due to the rise in serious injuries and drowning deaths as a result of suction caused by poorly designed or fitted swimming pool and spa drains.
Compliant Swimming Pool Drain Cover
What this means to consumers is that every commercial pool and spa in the U.S. must be fitted with anti-entrapment safety drain covers compliant with ASME/ANSI A 112.19.8 standards. The deadline for fitment of these new drains was December, 19, 2008 or the pool and spa should have been closed until the correction was made.
9 years later – is your pool compliant?
There are newly designed and affordable anti-entrapment drain covers that are compliant to the Act and are easily retrofitted to existing drains in the effort to prevent future devastating injuries and drowning deaths.
If you do not have a federally-compliant drain cover we highly recommend to prevent an unnecessary death or accident that you have us replace your drain cover with a federally-compliant type of drain cover.
Serving Sacramento and Solano counties, Woody’s Pools can address your drain cover service and installation options. Contact Woody Now!
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Do these covers work with aqua-bot pool cleaners or do they get stuck on this drain cover
Sorry, I can’t really answer that question. All of the VGB main drain covers stick up higher than the originals and can be a problem for suction cleaners and robotics. Sorry I couldn’t be much help. You can check with the manufacture, Aquastar.
Thanks for your inquiry!
Mark