Solar Pool Heaters

Solar pool heaters offer a number of advantages over fuel based heaters.

1. Solar pool heating systems give you a longer pool season. They get you into your pool earlier in the year and they let you swim comfortably into the fall. A solar pool heater can raise your water temperature by 10- 15 degrees.

2. A solar pool heater is a capital improvement to your home and you may recover some or all of the cost at the time of sale. The other option is to use a fuel heater of some kind which means you pay out money as expense - never to be seen again.

Solar pool heaters use your existing pump to circulate water.

3. If you already have a gas heater or heat pump, solar pool heaters can work with them to reduce your fuel cost. Its hard to beat the cost of sunlight.

4. Solar pool heating systems don't require fuel so the cost of operating them is very low. In many cases, the breakeven point for solar pool heaters is under 36 months.

5. Solar pool heating systems are very easy to operate. They use your existing filter pump to circulate the water so there are no additional moving parts. Once the water is warm enough, the water is pumped into your pool instead of into the solar heater.

6. Most solar pool heaters are mounted discretely on your roof but other options are available if that isn't practical.

7. Once installed, solar pool heaters are environmentally friendly. They don't use any fuels or refrigerants like other pool heating technologies. Sunlight is still free and some of our pool heaters operate at 80% efficiency or more.

8. Solar pool heaters last a long time. It is reasonable to expect your system to last over 20 years and our manufacturers offer warrantees to back this up and more.

The size of the system you need depends on a number of variables including how long you want the pool to be in use each year, the typical winds in the area, the local humidity and the tilt and orientation of the solar collectors.

For more information, call us or come by our store on Route 1 in Searsport. We look forward to serving you.