Swimming Pool Heat Pumps - A Great Way to Heat Your Pool

Without question, there are few pools you’re likely to find to be at a good swimming temperature year-round. While a chilly dip can be fun once in a while, it’s still preferable to be able to warm up your pool at will. Kids love a warm pool - most of them will never want to leave. You’ll find that, with the addition of a swimming pool heat pump to your pool, you will not only be increasing the value of your home, but making space for a lot of family fun and memories.

Now, to be clear - swimming pool heat pumps don’t make their own heat. Rather, they use electricity to catch heat and shift it from one place to another. The swimming pool’s water is circulated through the pump, and as it does so the heat pump’s fan draws in outside air, sucking it onto an evaporator coil, which holds a quantity of liquid refrigerant. This refrigerant substance becomes a warm gas when it absorbs the air, passing through a compressor and growing hotter as it’s squeezed more tightly in its container.

Passing then through a condenser, which transfers the gas’s heat to the cooler water coming from the other end of the heater device, the gas returns to liquid, and goes back to the evaporator to repeat the cycle. The water returns to the pool, dispersing through it and adding to the pool’s overall warmth.

Now what all this science winds up meaning to you is that while a swimming pool heat pump might cost a bit more to install when you initially buy it, it’s less likely to be affected by shifts in the weather or the absence of sunlight than solar-paneling solutions, and will be more energy efficient than the majority of heating pump systems out there - the simple fact is that, since they’ve been around for so much longer than other forms of inground pool heater technology, they’ve matured in their design and are now better thought out and put together.

Of course, the way that I’ve described heat pumps for swimming pools above is a gross oversimplification designed to illustrate the details of the process for the layperson. The real-life complexity of a swimming pool heat pump means that you really don’t want anyone but a fully qualified pool professional (yes, believe me, there are such things) working with them. Think about it - any device reliant on hot gas is simply not going to be safely adjusted by amateur hands. Ask your family and friends if they’ve needed to hire such a person in the past, and if there’s anyone that they can recommend. Proper installation will optimize the functionality of the heat pump, and ultimately save you a good sum of money on your electric bills.

After this concern, you need to consider whether, regardless of the initial price of installation, you can afford to have a swimming pool heat pump running and eating up electricity. As efficiently as it may operate, if your kids are left unchecked running the heater they could well rack up phenomenal bills unless you establish some way to regiment the amount of power the device uses. Consider buying a pool pump timer to cut off power use at a particular number of kilowatt hours.

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- Ryan McCall