Dan Espen wrote the following on 8/15/2012 10:43 PM (ET):
Duesenberg writes:

Anyone have any pool heater info they wanna share with me?

Wifey has been lobbying for a heater and is armed with her mother's
chequebook. In the interest of staying married I've caved in and
decided that a heater might be a good thing for our kids... I just
agreed to this 15 minutes ago, so haven't Googled anything yet.

Pool dimensions are 16 x 32 x 10 feet deep (3 feet at shallow end).

Ontario Canada. Typically our water is heated by the sun to 23 or 24,
which I think is 76F. In hot days it can get to 80F. Want a heater
that will give us 29 to 30 which I think is 85F but if not, at least
to maintain 80F.

Natural gas. Chlorine, Sand filter.

One other question, are these things power vent or pvc exhaust or are
they stack exhaust? Want to keep indoors but wonder about air
breathing.

For 15K gallons above ground, I use Hayward's smallest gas heater.

I'm in NJ but only get a few hours of sun on the pool.
Somewhere around 86F the pool becomes very comfortable.

Like all things pool related, heaters don't last forever and
need occasional repair. I'm on my second one.

I don't find they extend the season at all. Who wants to
use a pool when the air temp gets below 75F?

The same type of people who clean the snow off the cover of their hot
tub on the rear deck in the NE winter so they can get in the warm water.
But in the pool, you can do laps. You just don't get out and stand
around while wet. :-)




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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
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