Building your Own Pool Solar Heaters - Easy and Worth it!
Are you ready to build your own pool solar heater and extend your swim season? Do you want to get your heater and save money doing so? You can do this and more because the pool solar heaters that you can build are also very environmentally safe because they do not waste energy.
You will be able to save a nice sum of money and you will have your own pride of doing it yourself. It is not hard to do and it will do the same or better job than a heater you would buy. Here is what you need to know about putting together your solar pool heater.
First, there are some things you will need to purchase. Get yourself between 100 and 150 feet of black tubing that is about one half inch in diameter. Also, get some pvc piping, around 15 feet that will fit nice and tight into the end of the black tubing. You will also want to pick up a shut off valve to put on the pvc pipe.
You need to get a pump as well. This will be how you get the water from the pool into the tubing and back into the pool at a higher temperature. You want a pump that is strong enough to move the water out of the pool and through the tubing, but nice and slow. This will allow it to heat up more.
Next, you need to get a few two by fours and some brackets to hold them in place. The idea is to attach the black tubing to the two by fours by running it back and forth through them. You have to do this without kinking the tubing, but you want it to be nice and long.
You will want to mount this part of your heater on a rooftop that is in direct sunlight, a shed, a barn, a garage, or anywhere else that is in direct sunlight. The hotter this gets the better. It will heat the water inside and if you have it pumping nice and slow you will get a nice flow of hot water bringing your pool up to the temperature you want.
The last step is to put the pvc pipe on each end of the black tubing. This is where the water will return and be sucked out of the pool. Put the shut off valve on the return side and mount the pump on the side that will suck the water out.
When the water leaves the pool and is sent up through the black tubing nice and slow it will be heated to a nice hot temperature. Then, it will return to the pool and help you get the desired temperature you want for your pool day. This will also increase your swimming season and all with pool solar heaters.