When it comes to the comfort afforded by your pool, having heated water to swim in is a luxurious, highly sought-after way to enhance an existing investment in a quality recreational swimming area for your family. Depending on the method used to heat an average sized, residential swimming pool, you could be spending as much as $10 an hour to keep your pool heated. This is, of course, using the traditional method of propane or natural gas to heat the water – a method of heating that is obsolete for those who live in Florida.

In a solar pool heating system, solar thermal energy (heat energy) is captured by specially designed arrays of hydraulic tubes mounted in such a way as to maximize the exposure the water has to direct sunlight. The transfer of heat energy from the sun to the water requires no combustion of any kind of gas, which means that the operating cost of the system is effectively zero. Based on how frequently the pool is used, the benefit of the solar thermal heating system can vary. For those who actively use their pools throughout the year (or at least when weather permits), using the sun to warm their pool water makes perfect sense. Obviously there is a price to be paid initially, but the savings on energy bills accumulate over time, and the end result for most customers is a system that pays for itself in just a few years.

The specific system designs will vary from pool to pool and from home to home. No two solar pool heating systems are exactly the same, and the first step to ensuring a safe, reliable install is completing an assessment of your pool and surrounding property. If there is an older, traditional heating system already in place (e.g., propane), we can advise on how to replace it with a solar heating system that may actually outperform the old system. If you want to know more about the benefits of solar pool heating, get in touch with us today and let’s start the conversation.