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radiant heating a pool in Mexico

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kudriavtseff
kudriavtseff Member, Email Confirmation Posts: 1
edited April 2021 in Radiant Heating
Have a concrete pool 5" deep and 240 sq feet of surface. Adding a 800 sq foot patio around it and want to run plastic under concrete. Any ideas if this will work

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  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 22,137
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    what are the ambient temperatures that you need heat for a pool in Mexico?
    You want to use the patio slab as a solar collector?
    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
    Derheatmeister
  • Zman
    Zman Member Posts: 7,569
    edited April 2021
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    The PVC roof collectors are so effective in warmer climates, not sure using a slab would be worth it.
    Can you provide more details? Where in Mexico? I've got some vacation time coming up! B)
    "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
    Albert Einstein
  • Tim_D
    Tim_D Member Posts: 128
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    I designed a system years ago for a client in Hawaii. We put PEX into the tennis courts to absorb heat for a very large pool. Worked like a champ. In your case, 800 sqft is not a lot of surface area. The pool you described would require just over 40,000btu per hour on a day with an average temperature of 70f and a target pool temperature of 85f assuming 12 hours of usable sunlight and zero wind. A 10 mile per hour wind takes it to slightly over 100,000btu per hour. If the hours of daylight are decreased the load goes up quickly.

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