Heat Pumps For Swimming Pools: Save On Heating Costs

Swimming pools are quite popular these days. Everyone owning a house wants to have a swimming pool of his own. Celebrities cannot do without swimming pools. There are innumerable benefits of having a swimming pool. You can spend hours swimming and relaxing. You can also read a magazine while relaxing on a floating lounge in your pool.

We all know how refreshing a swimming pool can feel during extremely hot summer weather, but did you know that you can also swim in your outdoor pool during winter? By installing a heat pump, you can. Many people are unfamiliar with the heat pumps. A heat pump works on the principal of taking heat from one area and transferring it to a cooler area.

Heat can also be pulled from water as well as the air. If you are thinking about taking a swim during the winter months, you need to think about a heat pump for your swimming pool. This can mean many more months of the year of happily swimming in your pool.

Many models of heat pumps for swimming pools are available for purchase. These heat pumps warm the water in your swimming pool in winter. It is especially nice to know that heat pumps for swimming pools are economical to run due to their efficiency. Heat pumps are less costly to operate because they move heat from one source to another rather than creating heat.

Heat pumps for swimming pools are not only energy efficient, they are environmentally friendly as well. Whether you need an in ground pool heater or an above ground pool heat pump you will find that heat pump technology does a great job reliably heating your swimming pool while saving energy.

A great deal of energy is required to heat a swimming pool. Most conventional pool heaters are inefficient. An efficient heat pump will cost 20 to 25% less to operate than gas or electric. Eco-friendly, a swimming pool heat pump can potentially save you thousands on your heating bill.

Swimming pool heat pumps use a small amount of electricity to capture heat from the air and transfer it to the water. They don't generate the heat themselves. The heater uses a fan to intake air and direct it over the evaporator coil which is filled with liquid refrigerant. The warmed liquid becomes a gas which runs through a compressor which increases the heat. This hot gas then runs through a condenser which transfers the collected heat to the swimming pool water.

Heat will move naturally from a warm area to a cool area. This physical law allows heat pumps to provide large amounts of heat with very little energy input. Only small amounts of electricity are necessary to run the heat pump's fan and compressor. Heat from outdoor air (even in winter) is transferred to the refrigerant which is circulated to heat the swimming pool water. Many units of heat are moved to the pool for every unit of electrical energy required.