heating pool with pool deck

Jack

"Let's take a flyer on this" and see where it leads us. We had a client who was on board. It did work well but took some time to get started in the late spring and ran out of gas in early October (N CA). There are cetainly more effective options but we tried all kinds of things. Some were pretty neat, some, well, ahem...we can discuss another time! Maybe!

R. Swatton

heeating pool with pool deck

I know some of you have tried this.

How is it working. Iam going to do an install this fall and have some questions. Should I use a flat plat heat exchanger?
the deck will be about 8,000 square feet concerete and the pool about 12,000 gallons.

Jack

I did this

on a system 28yrs ago and used pvc piping and circulated the pool water thru the system. Basically I made the parallel grid of a solar collector out of pvc and reversed returned the six grids I made. I made two grids up each side of the pool (you decide based upon the dimensions available) and one at each end. It worked well. Make sure you have really good exposure and not a lot of shading. To my knowledge the system worked for many years until the property was purchased and a new mega-home was built.

hot_rod

summer time only use?

because an unglazed, un-insulated concrete collector may not add much energy when the air temperature drops near of below pool temperature.

If it is a 3 season system, regular thermal panels, evac, or flat panels would be a better installation.

hr