Swimming Pool Heating

If the water in your swimming pool is too cold, then you probably will not swim in it. If you want to enjoy your pool not only on sunny days, then you are best advised to choose an efficient pool heating system.

Without heating, the pool water will not get any warmer than 22 °C, or perhaps 25 °C on very hot days. Sports swimmers like to swim in pool water that is at least 26 °C.  Most pools are even heated to 29 or 30 °C.

Moreover, pool heating allows you to extend your swimming season. Without heating, you can only swim during the summer months, from the end of May until the end of August. With heating, you can easily swim for up to 4 months longer, from April until the end of October. With some systems, you can even swim the whole year round.

Using a heat pump for heating your pool water in fact provides numerous benefits. A heat pump is highly efficient, economical, easy to use, and durable. This type of heating is much more environmentally friendly than a gas or fuel pool heating system. In addition, heat pumps have a long service life. If you want efficient pool heating, you should choose a high-quality heat pump. A heat pump uses electricity to extract heat from the outside air and distribute it into the water. They generate up to 5 kW of heat for 1 kW of energy.

Heat pumps are therefore dependent on the outside temperature. Conventional on/off heat pumps can operate at minimal ambient temperature 5℃, however, DC Inverter heat pump can operate at minimal temperature even below -15℃.

There are three main factors which can impact the heating load of your pool.

Size of your pool

The size of your pool is one the most important things to keep in mind when sizing a pool heater. And this is because the amount of water a heat pump needs to heat (the size of your pool) directly correlates to how powerful it needs to be. So by that logic, the bigger your pool (volume), the stronger/bigger your heat pump should be. When you size a pool heat pump, you need the surface area of your pool.

 

Pool Location (climate)

Equally important as the size of your pool, is where you live. Specifically, the climate. If you live in a climate that’s mostly warm year round, then most of the time, your pool heat pump won’t have to work all that hard. For someone with an average sized pool, using a smaller to standard sized pool heat pump would be ideal. On the flip side, for pool owners living up north or in more diverse climates, it’s a little bit different. Pool heat pumps with advanced low-temperature performance, can help pool owners in colder climates stretch out their pool season even longer.