If you have a pool in your single-family house and you want to extend your period of enjoying it, you can resort to a solar installation, which will generate the enough energy to heat the water, without any energetic cost, it will not increase your electricity invoice.
The pool temperature control is a very interesting alternative to the thermic solar energy, we can use a specific installation with this purpose, or simply using it as a complement to a thermic installation of domestic hot water.
Uses
The pool temperature control by using solar energy can be used in every kind of pool:
Between all the uses of the solar energy, perhaps one of the more profitable ones, and one with the best technology, is the installation of the pool heating by flat collectors.
These collectors are used basically in uncovered pools, where the objective is to extend the swimming period, and so the cost of the building can be profited. However, the legislation in force allows the uncovered pool heating only by Heat Pump or Solar Energy.
From April to October, the temperature in the daytime is pleasant, the sunshine is high, buy nevertheless the temperature of the water is cold, and it needs more heat. With the collectors for pools you can increase a few degrees of the great water mass of one pool, and this increase is enough to achieve the appropriate temperature of the pool.
Advantages