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, its 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, 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 pumps’ 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 its squeezed more tightly in its container.

It then passes through a condenser, where the heat of the gas is transmitted from its pipe housing into the water. Being cooled by the surrounding water, the gas returns to liquid form, and runs back to the evaporator coil so that the process can repeat itself. The heated water goes back into the pool, disperses through it and so, logically, increases the net temperature of the pool.

All science aside, essentially what swimming pool heat pumps represent is a more energy efficient solution to the problem of keeping your pool warm year-round. They work better than other in ground pool heaters, such as those involving solar paneling, because they’re less seriously affected by changes in weather and the absence of direct sunlight. While they cost initially more than gas pump heating solutions, their long term cost is less due to their higher efficiency levels, in addition to which they have a significantly longer life span.

Of course, the way that Ive 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 installed 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 amount of money on your electric bills.

Even then, the prospect of a swimming pool heat pump running for hours a day is one that most people would find a little financially intimidating. You need to establish, prior to any installation, whether you’re willing to pay the cost your kids might create running the pump unchecked – the bills could start stacking up pretty quickly. One thing you may want to do is take a look at pump timers, that will switch the pump off if it runs for too long.

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