What you'll learn

  • Match the cover to the customer

    Learn to work out what a customer really needs, whether that's warmth, less cleaning or lower running costs, and find the cover type that fits.

  • Understand how covers are built and installed

    Explore the materials and construction behind each cover type, how to measure a pool correctly, and the main installation methods.

  • Advise with confidence and accuracy

    Explain how covers affect water chemistry, support customers with maintenance, and understand what AS 5348 does and doesn't say about safety.

Course overview

  • Welcome

  • Module one - types and purposes of covers

  • Module two - materials and construction

  • Module three - sizing, selection and recommending the right cover

  • Module four - installation methods and mechanisms

  • Module five - water chemistry and cover interaction

  • Module six - maintenance, troubleshooting and safety standards

  • Completion and next steps

Why this course

A pool cover is one of the most effective products a pool owner can buy, but only when it's the right one. Recommend a solar cover to someone who needs heat retention, or a mesh cover to someone fighting evaporation, and the customer won't see the result they paid for. This course gives you a structured, product-neutral way to ask the right questions, match product to problem, and set realistic expectations. It also covers the safety message every customer needs to hear: a cover is not a safety barrier. Getting that right protects your customers, your business and your reputation.
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Recognition of Prior Learning

This course supports knowledge relevant to units within the CPP31218 Certificate III in Swimming Pool and Spa Service, and can contribute towards your RPL evidence portfolio.

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