Without question, there are few pools you're likely to find to be at a good swimming temperature year-round. While a chilly dip can be fun once in a while, its still preferable to be able to warm up your pool at will. Kids love a warm pool – most of them will never want to leave. You'll find that, with the addition of a swimming pool heat pump, you will not only be increasing the value of your home, but making space for a lot of family fun and memories.

First off, though, lets be clear that the proposition of heating an entire pool needn't be as drastically power-consuming as it sounds. Heat pumps for swimming pools aren't equipped with heating elements to make their own heat. Instead, as the swimming pool's water gets pulled through the pump, the heat pump's fan draws in surrounding air into a chamber with an evaporator coil, which is hollowed out to contain some kind of liquid refrigerant. When this refrigerant substance absorbs the warmth from the air it becomes a much warmer gas, which is then channeled to pass through a compressor chamber. When the gas get compressed, the particles in it get closer together (remember high school physics?) and so the gas gets even hotter.

It then passes through a condenser, where the heat of the gas is transmitted from its pipe housing into the water. Being cooled by the surrounding water, the gas returns to liquid form, and runs back to the evaporator coil so that the process can repeat itself. The heated water goes back into the pool, disperses through it and so, logically, increases the net temperature of the pool.

All science aside, essentially what swimming pool heat pumps represent is a more energy efficient solution to the problem of keeping your pool warm year-round. They work better than other in ground pool heaters, such as those involving solar paneling, because they're less seriously affected by changes in weather and the absence of direct sunlight. While they cost initially more than gas pump heating solutions, their long term cost is less due to their higher efficiency levels, in addition to which they have a significantly longer life span.

The biggest concern when installing swimming pool heat pumps is whether the job is being done by a qualified professional – obviously any device involving gas and heating coils is not one you want poorly installed, especially if you have kids running around. Also, proper installation can optimize the functionality of the pump.

Even then, the prospect of a swimming pool heat pump running for hours a day is one that most people would find a little financially intimidating. You need to establish, prior to any installation, whether you're willing to pay the cost your kids might create running the pump unchecked – the bills could start stacking up pretty quickly. One thing you may want to do is take a look at pump timers, that will switch the pump off if it runs for too long.

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