Thermosmart Heat Pumps

A pool can be a great thing to have, certainly in the summer for garden parties and barbeques but also in the winter for some exercise or to warm up after a hard days work: of course for this it will need to be heated. Spas are also popular but they need to be heated as well and many people find that this can get very expensive. Electric heating of water is very inefficient, gas isn’t very much better and the gas boiler equipment for a pool is quite bulky and is simply impractical for a spa meaning most run on electric.



Electric or gas are of course as well as being expensive are also not environmentally friendly. There are environmentally friendly options available though and these being run from renewable energy are therefore also run from free energy. The main three sources of renewable energy for heating pools are solar, geo-thermal and the heat in the air, which is in a way solar.

Solar heating of water though generally means where you have water from your pool being pumped through glass tubes where it is heated by the sun if there is any. Unfortunately though sometimes there isn’t very much sun and so the use of solar heating is limited to the summer really and it takes some time to heat up a pool full of water, even a small one, with a spa you probably won’t get the temperature hot enough at all.



With geo-thermal though you go the other way it is very efficient and can provide as much hot water as you want using heat from the earth’s mantle: if you only want a little hot water though, a standard home pool’s worth for example, you may find investing in geo-thermal isn’t worthwhile. Geo-thermal is good for large public pools though and it could easily heat your pool and a few neighbors’ pools if you got together. A heat pump to heat you pool may be a good option though for something reliable and practical. The size isn’t even that prohibitive being a similar size to a large air conditioning unit. A heat pump uses ambient heat in the air and uses a compressor to take that heat and intensify it so that it can heat refrigerant to 100 degrees.



This can be done even on a cold winters day and even in below freezing temperatures. The refrigerant heats the water through a heat exchanger very efficiently and you have hot water returned to your pool and spa controlled by a thermostat to give you the right temperature; the right temperature may change of course though. Sometimes you want to sit and relax in your pool and so want it hot, other times you want to exercise and need it cooler again or want to use it on a hot day to cool down. This can be done by reversing the heat pump if necessary so the water is actually cooled down: very useful during the summer where the sun can make the water too hot on occasions. In a spa as well being able to change temperature is useful and with a heat pump surprisingly fast. Different spa users often like different temperatures and kids may need the water cooled down a good deal before they use it.



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