Please read this if you are in NY and have a swimming pool solar heater that was installed by a L.I. company.?

Question

We have a 15X30 above ground pool and would like some info from people who already have a solar heater.

How many degrees does the temp of your pool water go up from May-September?

Our pool is in the sun most of the day. Unfortunately our neighbor's tree blocks the sun from part of our pool right in the middle of the day. We're considering a solar heater and don't know if it would do much to help since our entire roof doesn't get sun all day (1 half gets sun part of the day, the other half the other part of the day; same with our yard). There are only a couple of dealers on L.I. that install pool solar heaters. The 1 we got an estimate from didn't do anything to survey our yard to see if it is suitable for the solar heater.

I'd rather have a solar heater but I'm also strongly leaning toward a heat pump since I haven't been convinced that the temperature of our pool water will rise more than 4 degrees above what it was last summer (didn't get above 80 the whole summer.

Answer 1

get a heating pump. L.I did a bad job installing mine