How can I cool my 12,000 gallon pool 5 degrees? Can I do it with dry ice or ice blocks? It is 90 degrees now
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but if you need it done today then your better off with normal ice. Dry ice is quite expensive in the large amount you'll need and even then in your case you'll have to go right to an Ice house to order enough to get the job done
Use regular ice blocks. Dry ice is kinda dangerous. But if you are desperate, use dry ice because it is colder.
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It's going to take you close to 500lbs of ice to drop your temp by five degrees. Your ambient air temp along with sunlight are going to be your main deciding factors. If you can shade your pool completely you'll achieve the same results and have more consistent results.
I tell you what. send me 5,000 gallons of your 90* water and I'll send you 5,000 gallons of my 75* water!! This is crazy! You're trying to cool your pool down and I'm trying to heat mine! I've tried using a solar cover, 300' foot of black garden hose with pool water running through it while it sits in the sun, and cannibalizing a hot tub heater to use to heat my pool. It stormed here a couple of days ago, the air temp dropped like 15* and dumps so much hail I had to shovel off my deck!! Not to mention I left the windows in my car down and there was hail covering the front seats and the dash!!
There are multiple ways you can do this without the danger of dry ice (which will add carbon dioxide to the water which turns into carbonic acid and throws your pH, alkalinity, and calcium hardness completely out of whack!).
You can use a hose, circle through the pool in loops as much as possible and directed back out to a sprinkler. When the sprinkler is on you will have cooler water through heat exchange.
You can use an "ice box" type contraption. Build a box or an old chest freezer, loop the return line from the pump through this and turn the freezer on or fill it full of dry ice but ensure it doesn't touch the hose itself if using dry ice. You can also fill the chest with cold hose water and this will work for a little while.
If you have an old, working, refrigerator you can do the same type of exchange cooling by looping a lot of hose through the box and then back to the pool but this would be the biggest and most unsightly fix.
The exact opposite can be used to heat the water (loop the hose through a large chest painted black on the inside and out and covered with a clear plastic or lexan sheet). This works extremely well if it gets full sunshine.
The hose, other than the garden hose on the sprinkler, I refer to is inlet/outlet hose that you can purchase at your local pool store.
Won't help much, would take a half ton of ice to cool it Turn your nozzle on your water outlet from your filter, if you have one, so it sprays up and cools the water. If yours have a moveable nozzle, maybe use a sprayer and pump, to spray the water up and cool it.
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