heating a swimming pool

[geoff]

Who was it did that heating a swimming pool project using black water pipe a couple of years ago ?

[Peter Scott]

I'm thinking of using an old radiator painted black and propped up at the optimum angle. I have an inflatable pool with a filter pump. I intend to pipe the pump's output to the rad then back in. With a cover on it should add a few degrees given a week or three.

Peter Scott

[Lobster]

Not me.

hth David

[geoff]

I think that we're an order of magnitude or so out of sync here

[geoff]

That narrows it down somewhat, then

[John Rumm]

This one?:

[The Medway Handyman]

Wasn't me either :-)

Years ago, when God was still a boy, I worked for Karcher. My mate had an outdoor pool & impending party.

I arrived early with my demo steam cleaner, converted it to direct suction, filled the tank with red diesel & left it running. It sucked water out of the pool, through the heat exchanger & back into the pool.

Several beers later the fuel tank ran out, but we had a substantial increase in pool temperature for a small outlay in red diesel. Can't remember the figures now, but it worked a treat.

[geoff]

problems ATM, so I can't see the construction

I'll check tomorrow,

cheers

[John Rumm]

Try:

[1501]

I think he's trying to heal the hole in the ozone layer; not enlarge it.

[dennis]

So he needs a UV steraliser rather than chemicals to keep the pool clean. Nothing to do with heating it. You should be able to run a UV steraliser off solar power as you only need about 100W.

[meow2222]

[Peter Scott]

Not necessarily. Unless you are willing to spend hugely on heating, a solar system is the only option. A simple system will take a while to heat up the large mass of water. Even my 3m pool has about 3.5 tonnes of water in it. Just takes a bit of planning. Do it before you need it. Until I try it I have no idea what speed it will work at. Theoretical calculations are useless without knowing the efficiency of the absorption of heat energy.

Peter Scott

[geoff]

cheers

[Peter Parry]

Doing one at the moment with a neighbour if you want to pop up and look at it. Not fully finished yet but the collectors are in place.

[geoff]

It's my brother in Wiltshire that's doing it

... but I shall have to pop over to Hemel when it's a nice sunny day and supervise for a couple of hours, if there's some beer in the fridge