Solar Heated Swimming Pool Will Save You Money

What’s involved with a solar heating swimming pool? The amount or size of solar collectors directly reflects from the size of your pool.  Collectors are heat solar panels, solar heaters.  Collectors collect heat from the sun to heat water.  The heat of the sun is necessary for heat exchanging.  We exchange cold water for warm. We are exchanging the heat.  The water is collected and run through these heater panels that the sun heats up and run down back into the pool. It is similar to a regular pool pump.  It takes the water from the pool and pumps it back through the filter and into the pool.  If you have a pool heater, it pumped it through a propane heater exchanger.  That propane tank heated up that water and it flowed back to the pool.  But it used propane to do that.  Solar heated swimming pools are more efficient and will save you money.

One customer called me interested in solar power.  He has a swimming pool that was heated by propane and is paying over $1800 a year to heat his interior pool.  That’s a lot of money, in my book.  This customer would be limited to the amount of collectors that is available.  With the calculations that I came up with, the collectors would raise their pool temperature to 80 to 85 degrees.  They indicated to me that that wasn’t enough.  They wanted it hotter.  I asked the customer if he is pursuing a reasonable way of give and take which would help the environment and also help him to get a better bill or do you just want to pay the higher bill.  You must give a little for efficiency and for the environment while not being unreasonable.  If you must have it, you can get it, but at what cost?

This customer would be eligible for the Louisiana rebates.  His actual payout for his system would be only $3000.00.  In a matter of 2 years, he would have paid for the system and not paid the propane company.  What’s better, $1800.00 per year or $0 per year?  Duh!  He would not be renting or buying gas while heating his pool to the extent that he wanted it heated.  I think that 80 degrees is normal high heat when you have a circulating area.  But this customer wanted a higher temperature, at least 90 degrees.  Why?  Just because.

This customer has an existing pool and wants to have it 5 degrees warmer than what the solar collectors can provide.  They are not happy with the solar idea that I suggested because of their limited roof space where the solar collectors would be placed.  To me, that’s like saying you want to be fuel efficient and yet drive a gas guzzling Hummer.  You want to drive a Hummer but yet you want the mileage of a Volkswagen.  That is not being money conscious.  Dollar for dollar, that doesn’t pay. Why don’t you switch to a solar heated swimming pool?