I was wondering if people who have various small pools with currents who
tell me pros and cons about their brand. So far I’ve looked into
Swimex, Endless Pools and swimspas. We’re looking for a high-quality,
inground, outdoor pool at least 11×17feet which can be used as a pool, a
spa, as well as an exercise pool with 3mph minimum current. It should
also be affordable to heat year round in an environment that gets snow
in the winter. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Mark
pools with currents
May 17th, 2005 · 3 Comments
Tags: pumps
3 responses so far ↓
1 janis_40 // May 18, 2005 at 11:42 am
In a message dated 12/21/2003 11:28:00 AM Central Standard Time,
mark.kratter@… writes:
Thanks for all this info. It’s some good food for thought. I started
my research on epinions.com, and some people made it sound simple and
cheap to maintain an Endless Pool year-round. Thanks again and Happy
Holidays to everyone.
best,
Mark
Maintaining it during the winter is easy and it is cheap……………..it
is the heating part that hits the pocket book. A simple solar cover really
helps with the heating costs. It cuts down evaporation which is where much of
your heat gets lost.
Ken
2 Neva Marjory // May 19, 2005 at 8:37 pm
I have a 14×7x6(deep) Endless pool on the coast of Oregon. It costs
me approx $50.00 per month to heat my pool to 92 degree F. I use the
electric heater that comes with the E-pool kit. Oh yes, my pool is
indoors and is covered with 2″ of insulation when not in use. We
swim and exercise year around (2 hrs/day).
3 janis_40 // May 23, 2005 at 8:33 am
In a message dated 12/31/2003 11:35:27 AM Central Standard Time,
pne4us@… writes:
I have a 14×7x6(deep) Endless pool on the coast of Oregon. It costs
me approx $50.00 per month to heat my pool to 92 degree F. I use the
electric heater that comes with the E-pool kit. Oh yes, my pool is
indoors and is covered with 2″ of insulation when not in use. We
swim and exercise year around (2 hrs/day).
Cool but what I was talking about was a pool at least four times the size of
yours(4400 gallons) , outdoors, not insulated and uses gas for heat. With the
recent increase in gas prices heating your big pool during the winter even in
the southwest is an adventure in high finance.
When I still worked in the pool industry one of the manufacturers of heat
pumps has statistics on the cost of heating a 16,000 gallon pool year round with
gas and with a heat pump. The cost of gas was nearly $7,000 while the heat
pump was half that. Of course during the winter you needed two heatpumps at a
cost of over $6,000 to keep the pool warm and they were running 24/7 to do so.
The most interesting part was that using a simple solar cover cut the cost of
both systems in half. It seems cutting evaporational cooling significantly
reduces the amount of heat loss and that is why your pool costs so little to
heat.
Ken
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