FAQ’s
Heating your swimming pool extends the swimming season, providing comfortable water temperatures year-round. It enhances enjoyment for relaxation, exercise, and family fun, while also boosting property value. A heated pool promotes a healthier swimming environment by maintaining ideal temperatures that prevent bacteria growth, ensuring a safer, more pleasant experience for everyone.
The heat pump works on a similar principle to your home air conditioning, but in reverse. Instead of absorbing heat from the outside air into refrigerant and then transferring that heat into indoor air, the refrigerant transfers the heat into the swimming pool water.
The basic answer to that is, the larger the body of water to heat the larger kw unit is required. There are a number of factors involved in the cost calculations.
- Amount of water and sq m surface area of the pool.
- Length of swimming season
The year can be defined as all year, 12 months, or extended season, 8 months.part of the quoting process is to find out as much information as possible, such as location of the installation, temperature required, does the pool have a blanket and in particular is the user prepared to be diligent with its use when the pool is not in use. Once the information is put into a calculator, a kw size unit is recommended along with typical running costs.
Also, if a unit of say 9 kw is suggested, this is a plug in model with no special electrical connection required. Above this size, an electrician would be asked to quote on the electrical connection.
It would be safe to say that in smaller pool, an electric heat pump would be a viable alternative to solar of an equivalent size in both installation and running costs.
This is reflected in the number of heat pump units being sold in the past 5 years particularly.
The noise from a heat pump is similar to that of a home air conditioner ( compressor,motor, condenser, and fan blades.
And there is no need to be concerned with any noise affecting neighbours, since the units are set up to run with your pool pump, filter, during daylight hours, when the conditions are optimal.
Absolutely. And guaranteed longer, more comfortable conditions for pool use.
The systems are combined and with the use of smart valves, the systems can compliment each other. Also the heat pump would come into its own in shoulder periods, before and after main swimming season. During the peak warmer months, the solar would generally heat the pool comfortably,with the heat pump only required occasionally to top the temperature up, thus further reducing running costs.
One of the most regular phone calls I receive is in relation to Solar matting leaking on the roof, along with a request to quote on repairs to the system.
After a series of questions to determine the problem, the same conclusion is reached in almost every case.
If it is in the ten-year-old range, the system has gone past its use by date, and it’s time to remove and replace the roof matting. To attempt repairs is a futile exercise, since the material becomes brittle and does not take kindly to being worked on. Perforations appear in the matting, nipples break off on the manifold lines and pipework becomes brittle after so many years exposed to the extreme elements.
This can cause leaking, corrosion and rusted gutters, a contributing factor being salt water from the pool.
Any attempt at repairs will be throwing good money after bad. It is not a sales pitch on the phone to sell you a new system.
The system is dead on the roof and will only cause further issues unless replaced.
Providing the solar pump and controller are functioning ,it’s a matter of quoting on the matting replacement by the metre,
The new material is PVC nitrile with a 15-year warranty.