How Swimming Pool Heat Pumps Work

Swimming pool heat pumps provide a very low cost method of heating your pool by harvesting FREE energy from the air and using it to heat your pool

Pool heat pumps use technology similar to air-conditioning units. They use a fan and compressor to take heat from the surrounding air and transfer it to your pool. The fan blows air through the heat pump and in doing so, air is drawn over the evaporator coil (the fins on the rear of the heat pump). This then transfers heat from the air to the refrigerant gas inside the refrigerant pipes.

The compressor compresses the refrigerant gas which causes its temperature to increase considerably. This hot gas is then passed through a built-in titanium heat exchanger which has the pool water flowing around the hot refrigerant gas causing heat to be transferred to the pool water

Energy Savings from a Swimming Pool Heat Pump

For every 1kw of electicity that our pool heat pumps consume, they return approximately 5-6kw of heat to your pool making them around 500% to 600% efficient. Newer inverter driven heat pumps can give up to 13kw of heat for every 1kw of electricity used. The electricity to the heat pump simply powers the fan and compressor. The system takes FREE heat from the surroundng air and transfers it to the pool using the refrigeration cycle to give you a very Low Running Costs to heat your pool.

Installation of Swimming Pool Heat Pumps

Our pool heat pumps are very easy to install. They are completely self-contaned and only need an electrical supply and a supply of swimming pool water to operate. .

We have lots of tips on how to install your pool heat pump on our Installation Tips page

Wooden Pools

We also sell an excellent range of wooden swimming pools. Please see our sister company The Wooden Pool Store at www.thewoodenpoolstore.co.uk

Questions?

We will be happy to help with any questions you have about heating your pool, from sizing a heat pump, selecting the best model or to answer any technical support questions that you may have. Please Contact Us to speak to our friendly, knowledgable team.