solar covers for pools

solar covers for pools

There are many benefits to using solar energy to heat your pool and raise its temperature to levels that make it pleasant to swim when normally, at that time of the year, it would be too cold even to think about it. The process of using a solar pool heating system with its solar collector - whether a homemade one of PVC pipes or an industrially manufactured one of solar pool panels - for heating your pool is relatively straightforward. The proviso is, of course, that there is enough sunlight around to allow the solar pool heat system to do its work well.

Limiting yourself to solar heating your pool without having extra safeguards in place, however, is rarely enough to ensure the best and warmest results especially in more temperate zones. There are several laws of nature at work that begin to undo the heating your solar pool heat system has done for you!

Heat loss is an issue and it happens because of a few perfectly natural processes.

• Evaporation is a big one. It is responsible for causing significant heat loss because evaporation is intrinsically a cooling process. Just think of how perspiration and its evaporation are natural ways to cool the body.
• Evaporation not only causes heat loss, but also water loss of between 50% and 70% depending on the climate where you live. Having to top up the water level of your warm pool means that you are constantly pushing cold water into it, dropping its overall temperature once again.
• Heat transference, in Nature's relentless quest for balance and equilibrium, will be at work to try and reduce the temperature difference between the cold air and the warmer pool water rendering your pool water colder if it is left unchecked.

What is the most effective way to preserve the heat your pool solar heating system has generated?

A solar swimming pool cover is just the thing to give your solar pool heating additional leverage for maintaining pool heat. 

What are solar pool covers all about?

In a nutshell, they are specially designed pool covers with solar heating capacity added to them so that the whole surface area they cover (your pool) also manifests heat absorbing properties. It then transfers this heat to the water below it. Even without being part of a larger solar pool heat system, a solar swimming pool cover can increase the pool temperature by a few degrees, but when used in tandem with a solar pool heating system, it makes a noticeable difference - easily a 15+ degree rise in water temperature and. equally importantly, the generated heat is retained and not lost to the elements. 

Not only is the starting temperature of the water passing into the solar collector warmer at the beginning of each day, but the pool solar cover will prevent the inevitable cooling effect of evaporation because it stops the evaporation process almost completely. Thus, covering your pool with a solar swimming pool cover when it is not in use means that heat is retained, water levels don't have to be topped up as often and heat transference is minimized. These benefits alone are enough to make a solar pool cover an indispensable part of your pool heating system.

Other advantages include keeping your pool cleaner and freer of debris, rendering your pool safer for young children and unsuspecting animals when it is not in use, and saving money on water bills.

All these factors make pool solar covers one of the most useful swimming pool solar accessories to have for your pool.

The Solar Pool Heat experience is something worth pursuing. For more information about all aspects and benefits of swimming pool solar heating, swimming pool solar accessories, solar pool covers and the like, please visit my website at http://www.solar-poolheat.com.

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