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The best insulator we make. An Airlon closed-cell foam core holds heat in the pool overnight, when a solar blanket has nothing left to give. $42 per square metre including GST.
Worth being clear about, because it changes when you'd use it. Thermal Shield is opaque, so it has no solar gain — it won't collect the sun's warmth the way a bubble blanket does.
What it does instead is stop heat leaving. Most pool heat is lost overnight, when the air drops below the water temperature and the surface gives up its warmth. A 5 mm foam core across the pool is a far better barrier against that than a layer of air bubbles.
So it's the blanket for holding temperature — on a heated pool, through the cooler months, or anywhere the nights are cold. If you want the sun to do the heating, a solar blanket is the right product.
Thermal resistance compared across blanket types. Higher is better.
Thermal Shield is the only blanket we make with an Airlon core — a cross-linked closed-cell polyolefin foam with a tough double water-resistant skin and unusually thick cell walls.
That matters more than it sounds. Foam blankets absorb water over their life, and a waterlogged blanket can end up carrying up to twice its original weight — heavier to handle, harder on your roller, shorter-lived, and worse at the insulating job you bought it for. Airlon takes up around three times less water than other foam cores on the market, so it keeps working the way it did when it was new.
The outer membranes are a high-UV, high tensile strength, water and chemical resistant woven HDPE in deep blue, and where the pool shape allows we build the blanket reversible to get more life out of it.
Enter your pool's length and width. Thermal Shield is charged at $42.00 per square metre including GST, rounded to the nearest whole square metre, with no minimum charge.
Measure to the nearest 0.1 m at the longest and widest points. Order your pool size — we add the extra material.
Ready to order? Take these measurements across to our pricing calculator, where you can add a roller, overcover or installation and check out.
We strongly recommend a reflective overcover with this blanket. It shields the material from UV while it's stored on the roller, which is where most blanket damage actually happens.
They're not competing products — they solve different halves of the same problem. Some customers run a solar blanket in season and switch to Thermal Shield for the cooler months.
See the solar blanket range if heating the water is what you're after.
Tell us about your pool — whether it's heated, how you use it, and what months you want to swim — and we'll tell you which blanket makes sense.