How to make a Pool heater?

Charlie Bratton
by Charlie Bratton

What is the most efficient solar swimming pool water heater you can build yourself?

  3 answers
  • Barb Malloy Barb Malloy on Aug 16, 2018

    Go to u tube. There are lots of different kinds with different outcomes

  • Dwp7470b Dwp7470b on Aug 16, 2018

    Because heat rises rather than sinks, the most efficient of all Heat Sources for a pool is: install Solar Powered Heated Ceramic Tiles beneath the pool, used in conjunction with either:

    A. a Solar Powered Fountain or

    B. A Solar Powered Standard In Pool Circulating Pump


    If that is beyond your price range there are Heated Liners, that you can buy at your local Pool Product Suppliers.


    Granted, you can String together Aliminum Cans and Weave Aluminum Foils to look like a Solar Reflective Tarp, but really the one question to bear in mind, which some do not answer until these go through ALOT of Work to witness what they did, is:


    Do you Really want Post-Consumer Garbage Floating Around on the top of your Swimming Pool? Y/N.


    Most say NOPE after they spend days weaving together old scraps of Aluminum Foil these saved for Months from they Baking Potatoes.

    Thus if you want to Integrate those Post-Consumer Recyclables into your Scheme, you are best off to create DIY Solar Panels to create the Energy, so your Savings in Household Electrical Suffice the Finances or Budget to get a Solar Compliant Heater from a Pool Supplier.

    Also, you may want to look into either a black liner, or spraying your liner with Black FlexSeal.

  • Cynthia H Cynthia H on Aug 16, 2018

    Hi Charlie! When we had our pool, we used a solar blanket. But, this method looks like it would be easy to do:

    http://www.silent9.com/blog/index.php?url=archives/107-DIY-Solar-Pool-Heater.html&serendipity[cview]=linear