Jerseygirl

The heater for the pool has died so OH is looking for a replacement...any suggestions/recommendations. This was discussed last year and some recommended air heaters...the guy at the pool store said they are not viable for the NE climate. Can't really understand that comment as now through to September...traditional pool season in the NE...the weather is about as hot and humid as Florida.

Ray

Depending on you pool size .. and presuming you want a heat pump rather than gas ...
none better than ...

http://www.jandy.com/html/products/heatpumps/ae2500.php

and get rid of the chlorine and go salt ...

Elvira

Pool heaters...WTF... what's wrong with solar???

Ray

good ..but need the electric boost ..

Jerseygirl

We enquired about that a few years ago...too expensive for the volume of water. I wonder why solar energy isn't used more here given the amount of sunlight all year round.

Jerseygirl

Our current heater is gas. The pool is 40 ft x 20 x 6.

Elvira

we don't...

Ray

for gas ..
http://www.jandy.com/html/products/heaters/

there is a calculator there to work out the size you need ..

Ray

If you did you could extend you swimming by a month ot two each
end of the summer ...

Elvira

Is that you then...

mozoo

Hubby built one of those a couple of years ago and it works beautifully. We have an above ground pool, one of those EZ set ones, and the temp of the water is anywhere between 78º-82º. It was only an experiment and he really didn't think it was going to work very well but we're happy with it.

Dan725

The facing of your house and roof space/other space impacts on solar heaters too. For examle, the ideal placement for the panels on our house is facing the wrong direction, neighbors house casts the shadow at the wrong time of day, trees are in the way, etc - if you put the panels on the wrong facing, you need bloody loads of them to get the same effect as perfectly positioned panels.

franc11s

Or keep VERY LOW Chlorine and almost zero maintenance / other chemicals as I do with :-

http://www.nature2.com/whatis.asp and http://www.nature2.com/testimonials.asp

Had it for 3 years and the testimonials could all have been written by me. To say the water is CLEAR is an understatement. It's spooky how CLEAR it is, like almost 100% you can see from one end of the pool to the other with no particles.

Patrick Hasler

Are you going soft Hun ?
We just let the sun warm the pool up, no whimpy heaters or solar covers............. Get a whisky down ya and jump in

Jerseygirl

After pricing the various pool heaters...my husband decided to try to fix it himself. He stripped it down...cleaned it and now it's working.

Thank you everyone for your advice.