They serve the purpose are a little flimsy and I’m not quite sure I like how they sit on the pool but they seem to do the job. You get what you pay for I guess, it take a little skill to assemble. You have to drill into your pool frame which is a little scary but as long as you have some skills with tools and can drill, screw, and assemble with a steady hand your fine.

I wondered if it would really be worth it. IT IS!!! Pulling the cover off bit by bit and placing it in the holders is very easy (I'm over age 55). But the real shining thing is being in the pool and easily pulling it across before you exit. SO much easier it's crazy. It was tougher without this and sometimes I'd just skip swimming because it was a chore. Not anymore! This is low tech and perfect! No clumsy reel, no manhandling needed. It's a must buy!

This is just what we were looking for to hide our solar cover when taking it on and off. Install went quick and it came with all the parts.

Placing solar cover off the pool. Tired of heavy rollers or burnt grass from laying cover on the ground. Easy to use.

I purchased these for our 27 foot above ground pool in the hopes it would keep the large solar cover off the ground and out of the sand. It came with 5 pieces which required spacing the brackets quite a distance apart for our size pool. By doing so the cover itself sagged significantly between brackets and although was not completely in the sand sections were still hitting the ground. Additionally, the brackets were not deep enough to hold the large size cover within its hook design and were a bit flimsy, only being held to the pool with two smaller screws which we had to drill through the pools upper trim. Overall this product would probably work quite well for smaller size pools such as 12-18 footers where hooks can be placed close together, not a great solution for larger pools.

If you are a DIY type person you could probably make this for much cheaper but if you would rather have it all done and ready to go for you to just put it on... Get it. This gives me the ability to put on and off my pool cover by myself, otherwise I would have to have a second person to help me so the cover wouldn't be damaged. It keeps it up off the ground and kept neatly. If you manipulate the cover and let the water drain off from rain or pool splashing it reduces bacteria or mold growth on the cover from allowing it to dry. Worth every penny and more! It will give you more life out of your solar cover

We have a 27 ft round pool and always used a roller before. Over the years, I've probably bought 3 different rollers, with the last one being considerably more expensive.The size we needed was the largest roller they made. But it was so wabbly with a solar cover rolled onto it and it was a huge hassle every spring to put the straps on and get them just right, etc.So, after our last roller got ruined last fall we decided to try these hooks instead....considerably cheaper than a roller!!So far, I like them. It's usually just me removing the cover so it takes 5-10 min but sometimes it could take that long to deal with a roller also.I would recommend these hooks, but after using them for a month now, we are going to space them differently. Right now they are evenly spaced. But for a round pool, that doesn't work with the hooks on the ends. The cover falls off of those 2 hooks. We are going to move the outer hooks (both of them) about a foot closer to the one middle hook, and maybe move the two hooks in between, closer to the one middle hook as well.

This isn't a bad product (yes it is - update below). It's exactly what I ordered, and it came on time and packaged well. It just isn't as helpful as I was hoping it would be. We just got a new solar cover for our 24-ft round above ground pool. I really wanted a reel for it, but they're all so dang expensive, and the reviews aren't great for any of the large ones, so we went with this instead. It does what it says it will - holds the solar cover off the ground - it's just very inconvenient to use.For starters, I had to go to Ace Hardware and get different screws to mount it. It comes with two lengths of screws for attaching it to the pool, but neither of them was even close to long enough. If you've got a metal cap on your pool edges, it will probably work fine - not plastic caps though. It seems they didn't think about the fact that plastic caps have support ribs on the underside to keep them from bending. The longest included screws were just long enough to almost reach the bottom of the support ribs, not long enough to go through the bracket they're for, and certainly not long enough to have any threads left for the nut to grab.Those support ribs made them a bit difficult to install too. You have to mark and drill holes for the screws to go through. Unless you really trust your measuring skills to be accurate within 1/4", you can't do that from the top to make sure the bracket will be centered properly. With the ribs underneath, you can't really mark it from the bottom unless you've got a really skinny marker. I had to just hold the bracket in place and drill up through it from the bottom. Manageable, but not particularly easy.Also, no matter what your measurements say, install the endmost brackets closer than the rest. I centered each set of brackets on the next panel are of my pool. I measured a couple of times to make sure, and used a 24-ft long string to wrap around and make sure it wouldn't be too far, and it all checked out. However, I didn't think about the fact that only a few inches of the cover are 24-ft since it's round. When I pulled the cover off and into the bracket, it did reach past the end brackets, but not far enough. There wasn't enough cover hanging past the brackets to keep it from falling down in between the brackets. Now my only choice is to leave it as is with the cover hitting the ground on the ends, or put more holes in my caps to move the brackets closer. That's my own fault. The instructions do mention something about possibly needing to mount the end brackets closer. I just thought I had it all figured out and was wrong.After all the work of installing it, the big disappointment is trying to use it. When a solar cover is used properly, the bubble side is down, and the smooth side is on top. To get the cover off the pool, you have to drag it up and over the side, then back down again into these brackets. Trying to do that without ripping the bubbles off as they catch on the edge of the pool while also keeping it fairly centered and straight so it will lay in the bracket is a big pain-in-the-butt. I'm a pretty big guy, and it was a struggle for my 16 year old son and I to do together. I can't imagine how tough it would be for the kids and my small wife to have to do it themselves while I'm at work.Then, pulling the cover back out of it to lay on the pool is the same process, but even harder because of all the kinks it gets in it as it tries to unfold from the brackets. It would take at least three people for it to be an "easy" job: one in the pool pulling it across, and one at each end outside the pool constantly lifting it up over the edge of the pool and untangling the kinks. Seriously, it's a pain-in-the-butt. It's a "$400 for a good reel isn't looking so bad" kind of pain-in-the-butt.Other than the hardware, I can't fault the product itself. It seems to be decent quality capable of doing what it's designed to do. However, it's just not very practical for how difficult it is to use. I'm already starting to work on building my own reel out of spare bicycle parts instead.UPDATE:I've now downgraded this to just 1-star and removed it from my pool. It's pretty much useless. On top of all the other difficulties I already mentioned, another one we've discovered is the way it holds water. Since the cover just folds over itself, all the water that was on the cover after laying on top of the pool just pools up inside the folds where the cover sags between the brackets. That means the third person who has to be under the middle of the cover to make sure the cover slides smoothly over the outside edge of the pool is guaranteed to get soaked with cold water and all the crud that was laying on top of the cover. We ended up not using it and just laying the cover out on the grass while using the pool - much easier in every way.I finally uninstalled this and bit the bullet and ordered a reel. While uninstalling, I found a couple of bent brackets and several bent bolts. Due to the flexibility of the plastic top caps on the pool, and the way the folded cover would kink and get stuck in the brackets all the time, things got bent and twisted a lot - and we are definitely not the abusive types that just yank things around. I also found that despite having the rubber caps on them, the pipes had water inside them meaning they would surely have eventually rusted out too.Overall, my assessment is the same: it's a decent idea, but it just doesn't work in execution. It may be good for smaller covers on smaller pools, but not a 24-foot round.On a positive note, I was able to use the U-shaped brackets to replace the broken plastic hand rails on our steps. That saved us a couple hundred dollars on replacing the steps at least.