Heating your pool

Heating your pool

If you like to swim comfortably in your pool then you need to heat your pool water using one of various pool heaters on the market. The traditional gas and oil boilers have been the most popular type of pool heating method and they are fairly economical. The boiler works by heating the water as it passes through pipes in the boiler; the size of the boiler needed for your pool depends on your pool volume and the desired temperature.

Gas boilers need to be installed by a registered gas engineer and can either use natural gas or propane. The other much less economical way to heat a pool is to use a electric heater which heats the water as pass through using a number of immersion elements, the size of the heater depends on the pool volume and desired temperature but they are very costly to run.

We recommend pool heat pumps to all our customers who are upgrading their pool system or looking to build a new system. Pool heat pumps extract the surrounding air and convert this into heat used to warm the water. The pool heat pump works by pumping cold air into a compressor which concentrates this air into heat which is passed to the heat exchanger condenser. The main reason we recommend pool heat pumps is because they are very efficient and most models can provide a co-efficiency of performance of upto 5:1 which means for every 1 of electricity the heat pump will give 5 worth of heat.

Pool heat pumps work better in warmer air as they dont have to condense the air so much but some models can see achieve 5:1 co-efficiency at temperatures of just 10 degrees. We have various heat pump models but our brand new range of Nirvana heat pumps are the best on the market. They are reliable and have had a 2% failure rate but are still backed by a 10 year warranty on the titanium heat exchanger and a 3 year comprehensive full parts and labour warranty for peace of mind.