![]() Cut way down on chemicals and cleaning as well.Product innovation has always been the core fundamental at Aquamatic, and we take great pride in how we have raised the bar in the pool cover sector and continued to be the leader in the industry, and have done so throughout our history.Īquamatic holds more patents relative to automatic and manual swimming pool safety covers than the other cover companies combined. Dark brown, covering the pool except when the pool was being used, except in high summer and then mostly uncovered, +/- some. In the future we can always add solar.Your experience is very similar to mine. We are sticking with what we have and will save $4000. I can't imagine that having the water warmer, in say March, would have mattered - it was never warm enough in March for me to want to jump in the pool - I don't want to swim in cold weather! Now water temperatures are in the upper 80's - prefect for swimming! By May the water temperature reached 78-80° without any long stretches of hot sun and lots of clouds and even rain almost every week between mid April and mid May. Over Spring break it was just warm enough to comfortably swim. During March our temps crept up from the winter 50°'s to around 68°, by early April it hit the mid 70's after just one hot day. The pool with a dark green automatic safety cover in place most of the day doesn't look like it will need additional solar heating. I thought I would update my thread based on our spring pool experiences this year. Granted this is our warmest time of year generally. Since it is already almost October and the pool is staying in the low 80's temp wise. ![]() Just last night our low was in the upper 50's and we did lose a few degrees on the water temp - but much less than I expect would lose without the cover. So not only will a cover keep the pool warmer, it will save you water.Yes we have an automatic safety cover, and it seems to be helping a ton with water evaporation (thus even more heat is retained), lower filtration time, lower chemical needs - and it seems to keep the pool really warm. That's a mighty big number when you are limited to just 11,000 gallons a month. Taking just the low number on my 10,000 gallon pool, that 100 gallons a day, or 3000 gallons a month. As most of California is under water rationing, a pool cover will cut down on the amount of water lost to evaporation.įrom my limited and frustrating research there was an article from a water district the claimed evaporation could be from 1% to 4% each day on a uncovered pool. My neighbors have pools, one has no heater, one uses his heater only in the winter and real off season. One or two pool and solar "sales people" talk about how great solar is, but then when you talk to installers and pool construction supervisors, who see everyday use, they mention that the actual usage people get from the solar panels is less than expected in our area. I guess I wanted to see what any other Bay Area people have experienced. Our automation doesn't support it but I am trying to figure out how to do it without manually switching valves. I have even looked at using the solar for nocturnal cooling - and based on our small sample this summer if we ever get an extended heat wave with our pool we could certainly benefit from that it seems. We will just do Solar if/when it looks like it would give us a big advantage for extending our swim time. I don't think we will do a gas heater at any point. ![]() See how it goes and if needed, start adding something like Fafco panels or get a CH4 fired heater if solar thermal is uneconomical or impractical.Thanks for the reply - yes I think we are going to see where this season and next years spring season puts us heat wise. mts., but a pool cover ought to extend your season by ~ 4-6 weeks on the season tails. Albuquerque is sunnier than the Santa Cruz. I installed a CH4 fired heater that was never used. The pool was covered except when in use or for heat dumping. from about April to the end of Oct., with summer heat gain requiring nite heat dumping as you describe. It needed replacing when I bought the house and got replaced with a dark brown cover, thus sort of doubling as a pool heater. I had a motorized pool cover in Albuquerque. Keep the cover on the surface when the pool is not in use, day and night. ![]()
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