What is the cheapest way to heat a swimming pool and is an indoor pool cheaper to run than an outdoor one?
Question:The pool is surrounded by 8' walls at the moment and not roofed. The size is 30' x 50' of which about 20' x 40' is the pool.
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No doubt an indoor pool is cheaper to run than an outdoor one if you're heating it. No contest, close it in. I had a pool outdoor, difficult/expensive, to continually heat. Enclosed, the building it was in would have trapped heat from the sun, retained heat from the pool, the wind wouldn;t have been a factor whipping across the waters surface and freezing near naked people at the same time. I would NEVER consider having another pool, unless it was indoors. Another big factor is, with an outdoor pool, you spend half your life keeping the thing clean, vaccuming etc, Amazing the rubbish that blows in every day, leaves, dust, spiders, grubs, water boatmen/beetles. If you are on mains gas that surely would be the cheapest option to run a pool heater that you have control of.. If you have large area to utilise plenty of black "hosepipe" so that the pool water can run through it and absorb the suns heat that is indeed cheapest of all, but you're reliant on the sun being "out" Good luck, enjoy.
I'll have my butler look into it and will get back to you!!
Solar power is the cheapest. Not always the most attractive.
There are several systems, but the one I've seen most often is black pipes are placed on a roof allowing the sun to heat the water as the pump circulates the water.
As for your second question. I'm not sure what would make it cheaper, the money you save in the tiny amount of chlorine that the sun breaks down in your pool would be spent in circulating the air in the pool enclosure. (if you don't circulate the air, it would become too humid inside and cause premature rotting or rusting of your ceiling and roof.)
In door pools are great and you could probably increase the length of time you could swim by a month or so at least. Especially if you heat the pool also.
Many years ago I had a house with a pool. Although not heated, we discussed heating it with a heat mat which would be laid on a nearby flat roof. I suppose an early form of solar panel. Therefore, would solar panels be any use?
The absolute best way to heat our pool has been with a solar cover. After the initial purchase of the cover, it's free heating! It works much better and quicker than heating the whole pool (at least in California).
If you haven't seen these before, they are a huge sheet of what looks like shipping bubble wrap. Leave it over your pool a couple sunny days and it will be so nice! We left ours on for a couple weeks one summer and the water heated too much! we had to leave it off a day or 2 to cool it down.
An indoor pool will stay clean all the time & it will not be exposed to the temps outside so the temp in the pool will stay consistant but not necessarily warm. U won't have to worry w/it in the fall
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