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If you think of buying a pool in the same way you think of buying a new car, consider a heater the same way as adding a radio or air conditioning to an automobile. It’s an extra convenience you don’t use all the time, but it adds immeasurably to your enjoyment. With a pool heater you can swim anytime you choose. So although, there are definite costs that go into heating a pool they are necessary benefits that Carlton Pools would have you consider. Carlton Pools is familiar with the many ways to heat your pool – from the sun itself to gas-fired, oil-fired, electric and elaborate solar heating systems.

The most widely used type is the direct fired natural gas heater. This is especially popular because of its low cost, dependability, simplicity of operation and the wide availability of natural gas. Where natural gas is not as widely available LP gas or propane gas many be used.

Oil-fired pool heaters are a good choice in areas where natural gas is unavailable but home heating oil is. Electric heaters are generally much less efficient and more costly to operate than natural gas heaters, unless the electricity is hydroelectrically generated.

Solar heating ranges from simple “passive” solar – the familiar pool cover that absorbs and transmits some of the sun’s energy to pool water – to “active” solar heating systems.

Used alone, the passive heating technique merely serves to help keep pool temperatures at existing levels by retaining natural solar heat and preventing its loss. It cannot add heat to build up water temperature beyond what the sun supplies. Active solar uses traditional pool motors to move water from the pool through a system of solar collector panels for heating by the sun. This increases the amount of solar heat added to the pool.

Written By: Phillip Thow