Heat Your Pool Quickly? Exposing 5-minute Craft.

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[macrumpton]

Cold water sinks and hot water rises. If your thermometer is hanging low it is in the colder water. In any case it would take more coverage, and several days to get 10 degrees of change, and that is without your pool being shaded by trees.

[psychorc]

Best way for a cheap solar heater is to use a 3/4 hose bib on your plumbing after the pump and filter and run a black garden hose out onto your roof or a shed roof. Or around the deck. Where ever you have sun all the time... Obviously run the other end back into the pool. Ive seen people use an old vaccum line to return it back to the pool but you can do it basically anywhere. Make a little fountain back into the pool if you want

[mrskimthomas]

As you said, the way these work is to trap in heat and prevent it from escaping. To do such you’d need to make enough of the Lilly pads to cover the entire water surface of the pool. The larger the gap, the more heat that will be lost.
Even if they did actually HEAT the water, the equivalent of what you did was to put a candle under a 60 quart pot of water and expect the water at the top of the pot to be boiling after 45 min.
Try it again with a kiddie pool and Lilly pad that covers the entire water surface. Check it again in 24 hours and you’ll see the temp has gone up.

[harleyrdr]

I'm in Arizona and I've used the full surface bubble-wrap style pool covers in the past. You can leave them full (rectangular) size and put something on the deck to hold the extra part down (wind). This works well it you have leaves or other stuff blowing into the pool. --OR-- If your yard is free of that kinda crap you can trim it so it fits the shape of your pool and it touches the water surface completely. The trimmed up version seemed to outlast the non-trimmed one since I guess the water keeps the sun from baking the bubble wrap and disintegrating it. The drawback is if stuff DOES blow onto the thing, the wind will get it to the edge and it will get into the pool sooner or later. TRADEOFFS! So the bottom line here in AZ is you can extend your pool season by a month or two on each end. With kids it's worth it, but now that my kids are grown and out I don't bother. On another point, even with the hot-ass AZ sun and a full pool cover it takes several days to make a notable change in water temp. So floating those little thingies won't do shit. Not even here in Phoenix! So yeah, those people are full of shit. Just my humble ass opinion of course. ;-)

[anbjoeri]

I have tested the same thing in my pool. Its a much smaller pool, and I only have it up in the summer. I agree with youre conclusion. It does not work

[flp]

I did this last year and it worked great. I just used black leaf bags and noodles. I did it again this year.

[JasonECI]

By floating it on surface, the heat dissipates to air even if it did absorb some from solar. Sinking it into bottom of pool might improve a little, but not expecting too much unless you paint the whole pool black... get a cooking pot of water under the sun to see how much warmer it gets.

[floridapoolpro]

I am a pool technician in Florida. I am getting ready to start producing content to refute the misinformation out there about pool cleaning and equipment and to set the record straight about the "tips and tricks" you see out there regarding pools and spas. The pool blankets do not heat. They are intended for overnight use, ONLY WHEN YOU ARE HEATING THE POOL, and are intended to be taken off during the day because leaving them on too long can result in algae as well as decreasing the life span of the blanket due to the eventual dry rot caused by the sun. Your water has a very delicate chemistry balance and part of that balance is the water's exposure to sunlight. Heaters also vary in ability and cost effectiveness. The primary pool heaters are gas and electric. Electric can be cheaper than gas depending on the region you are in, and gas is the quickest type of heater from my experience in this field. Solar panels are also an option, however the time of year can change how effective they are, and generally they are better used in tandem with another heater type. It is best to run your primary heater to raise the entire temperature, and then turn on your solar panels to aid in maintaining the heat level in your pool. This is easiest done with a modernized automation system with temperature computers, sensors and motorized valves able to activate and deactivate heaters depending on the heating demand. Alternatively, you can monitor the heat via thermometers and change the valves accordingly as time goes on. This will decrease the cost of heating, though given the amount of work that goes into manually alternating heaters most of our customers with standard systems opt to run one heater at a time and accept the additional cost as a luxury expense.

[southurnstar]

Most interesting way I've seen someone heat their pool is to put a pipe (inflow) at the halfway point (between the shallowest part of the pool and the deepest part). The water is pumped from there and the pipe passes through their outdoor fireplace and back down into the pool at the deepest point of the pool (outflow). Still takes ages to heat the pool but it does work. They also installed a split system on the section of pipe that returns to the pool after the fireplace, that they can turn on/off. They use the same method to heat the water in their outdoor spa.

[drizzydew]

Not surprised it didn’t work. My dad has one of those big blue bubble wrap looking sheets that we pull over the pool overnight and when we don’t use it in the day and it keeps the pool mid 80’s. My moms the same way she hates a cold pool. You might have to cut it to size cause your pool isn’t square but they actually work super well! Worth the investment. Also keep the cover over the roll when it’s rolled up if you get one cause the uv breaks it down way quicker when it’s not on the pool

[alliesmhee]

Mine worked. Took a week or so but I was able to enjoy the pool a little longer last summer.

[led]

The problem with your pool is that it has too much shade. We have the same problem. When the pool was installed 30+ years ago it would heat quickly in the spring. Now that the surrounding trees have grown and shade the pool with partial shade it always seems cold.

[bobnardo]

I almost tried to make these. Glad I saw your video first! I guess I'll have to stick to lugging around the large solar cover.

[ashley]

Cheers for the test, saved me making them. I was going to make a butt load of them.

[jasonstruthchannelsearchin]

I threw a bunch of black plastic crates in the pool awhile back and the dark color is what made it warmer.

Also, it made cleaning the pool easier with all the leaves in patches and less dead bugs as they were able to get back out after having a drink.

Crates are nice because they heat a foot deep where the dark plastic sits under water.

Like black pebble tec pool bottoms will raise the temperature only a few degrees not tons.

[ashow]

5 little lilly pads in a pool that size for only 2-1/2 hours? I'm not surprised it didn't do anything. But I bet if you made 20 of them and waited 3 sunny days in a row you would notice an increase compared to not having them. It's an alright solution during the weekdays, but on weekends you should heat the pool with a bonfire heater.

[ThatKyGirl]

Enjoyed the video! If I may make a suggestion, make 5 or 6 or more. If u want to see a temp increase for the size of ur pool u need more. Btw beautiful swimming pool! 🏊‍♀️

[physiques]

You could cover your entire pool with those things and you won't see a very noticeable difference other than finding it hard to swim 😂

[carolmason]

Thank you for going through all of the aggravation. I only have two comments. First, I noticed you have a lot of shade, that might be one reason your pool never heats up pass 80.
I am making these hula rings for this year. Maybe they will or wont make a big difference in temperature but I'm doing it because i hart the big solar blanket.
We'll see if it's a good idea for me.
Thank you again