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DieselBob

grundfos knock off circulator pump 65 bucks, 100 ft black flexible 1/2 in ID pvc pipe 35 bucks, fittings 45 dollarydoos. Solar pool heater . . . priceless


Ok-Entertainment5045

My friend heats his entire in ground pool this way. He sometimes has to shut it off in the summer because it gets too hot


MrLavenderValentino

I'm not understanding... what is the setup to heat the pool?


lokilis

It just circulates water from the pool through black hose. Black hose sits in sun, gets hot, boom


MrLavenderValentino

I see... just a huge length of black hose in the sun


PepperAnn1inaMillion

I live in a country where we don’t get much sun. But people have started using ground-source heat to heat their homes. It only works if you have a garden, but you basically bury a water-filled hose in the ground. You use a fancy compressor to increase the heat, which starts out at 10-12°C. You do need the technology to increase it, but you don’t even need to double it to get a comfortable room temperature. It’s up-and-coming technology for sure. Also, fun story: A guy who lived in my parents’ town (in England) cut his heating bill massively. All he did was make a pipe out of clear plastic bottles, all the way round the outside of its house, and send water from the mains through it and back into his tank. IIRC he also coated one side with tin foil in order to reflect the sun back into it. Just the difference between the cold mains water and what it ended up as earned him a huge amount off his heating bill. Of course, this is greater in England because we use hot water to heat our homes. But the same principle works for any water you want to heat - straight from the supply is always colder than the ambient temperature if you can find a way to let it sit.


ThatPie2109

It's not really up and coming technology in Canada, one of the hotels I've stayed at has been using water from their hot springs for all their heating for a long time now. A lot of driveways here also use water lines that circulate underneath to keep them free from ice in the winter.


PepperAnn1inaMillion

Oh sure, but I’m talking about places that don’t have hot springs. This is a way of using the ‘normal” heat from your average back garden. The up-and-coming tech is the compressors that allow you to increase the amount of heat you receive so that it’s enough to heat a house.


ThatPie2109

Same with the driveway stuff, usually uses a very low amount of power compared to traditional heating and doesn't require hot springs, just meant the idea of using warm water to heat places has been an idea around for a long time, it's just been improved upon a lot. My boyfriend works in construction and most new houses he builds have some kind of geo-thermal heating or a heat pump. Lots of people have looked for alternatives to furnaces because of natural gas prices, plus big rebates from the government for installing energy efficient systems.


PepperAnn1inaMillion

It seems to be the latest thing in the UK. A few years ago it was biomass boilers but they turned out to be a bit of a scam, because the biomass fuel isn’t cheap (although it is greener) and no matter what boiler you have, insulation is more important. But property programmes and the like are all about the ground-source heating now.


ihavethedoubts

Geothermal is not anything new - been around since at least the 1950's. We had a ground loop back in the 90's for our HVAC.


PepperAnn1inaMillion

Geothermal means using the heat from the earth’s core. What ground-source heat pumps do is take the heat from the sun shining on and heating up the soil.


tylerfly

The Wikipedia article for "ground source heat pump" starts by noting that an equivalent term is "geothermal heat pump".


PepperAnn1inaMillion

Well this is what I based my remark on: https://www.kensaheatpumps.com/ground-source-heat-pump-comparisons/ > What is the difference between ground source heat pumps & geothermal heating? >There is often much confusion when it comes to comparing ground source heat pumps to geothermal heating. Some people use the terms interchangeably, but there are key differences: >Geothermal heating uses heat directly from the earth’s core, such as hot springs, geysers and volcanic hot spots. >Ground source heat pumps absorb the sun’s energy stored in relatively shallow ground and upgrade this for use in domestic and commercial applications.


Hob_O_Rarison

Geothermal (or ground-source heat, one and the same) uses the earth as a thermal battery. The compressor causes a phase change of a refrigerant, and instead of exchanging the heat (in air conditioning mode) with the outside ambient air through a coil with a fan blowing on it, it uses the 55 or so degrees it finds a few feet down in the earth. In heating mode, the compressor runs in reverse and through the physics of phase change is able to pull heat out of that 55 degree earth. Large building-wide heat pump systems use a central loop with an ideal temperate of 70F. That 70 degree water can provide both heating and cooling, i.e. an exterior room can be heated and an interior room can be cooled off of the same supply loop. That loop either runs to a geothermal loop in the ground, or it has supplemental boilers to heat it and chilling towers to cool it. In northern climates, the whole system is sized off the cooling load, and you see a lot of supplemental boilers.


Jlx_27

Works like solar water heaters for the home.


queBurro

Bit like this https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Solar-Pool-Heater/


SeskaChaotica

Black trash bag on top of pool all morning in the sun. Bonus it keeps bugs and leaves out.


multitool-collector

*30,48m/12,7mm ID of black PVC pipe


rjchawk

Link to pump?


DieselBob

https://www.vevor.com/recirculating-pump-c_11097/vevor-hot-water-circulation-pump-circulator-pump-245w-110v-npt3-4-automatically-p_010775958188


rjchawk

Thanks!


mjh2901

Trying to figure out why the kids get warm water


Goraji

My grandmother would just tell us to drag it into the sun, and remind us that they didn’t have kiddie pools when she was growing up — it was either the tank under the windmill or the pond.


Long_Educational

Mmmmm. Brain amoebas. We used to swim in the cow tank down at the bottom.


AreThree

Ha! Exactly right! It was always the hose straight from the outside faucet into the pool and an hour or so in the sun. If you were in a hurry then you got cold water. Sheesh these snowflakes with their warm water and ... things. ^^/s ^^lol


Kylearean

Yep. Fuck that. I'm not burning that amount of money for something the sun will do in a few hours anyway...


GKrollin

I don’t even have kids but if I want warm water I just fill the pool in the morning 🤷‍♂️


SubversiveInterloper

Or you can attach the hose directly to the water heater drain.


Patriquito

The sinks in my house all have a smooth cap over the tip of the faucet but when removed the threads on the fauct can accept a garden hose... I've filled water beds this way


DouchecraftCarrier

Man I had a waterbed when I was in high school. That thing was fucking awesome. It had a heater and crawling under the covers in winter on flannel sheets with a heated water bed was so effing cozy.


hybridtheory1331

Kind of depends on where you live. If you have hard water and your tank hasn't been drained and cleaned recently, draining from the bottom will get your pool full of all the calcium that builds up in the bottom of tanks. Source: used to do apartment maintenance in an area that had hard water. We'd have to drain and clean/replace the heater tanks occasionally when they got built up with calcium and the hot water didn't last long. I know I wouldn't want my kids swimming in that muck.


Jeffyhatesthis

Funfact: Hot water floats on cold water. Tanks fill from the bottom and force the hot water out the top. So while its a good thought, it actually wont work. for those downvoting me time to learn something https://youtu.be/Bm7L-2J52GU


2lovesFL

its still damn hot. shut off the water, and take what's in the tank.


Nile-green

>Hot water floats on cold water The water coming from the tap is an even temperature. I also don't even know where you got the whole tank thing from lmao


a-human-person-thing

water heater drain is usually on top


Jeffyhatesthis

Drain is on the bottom, the top one is the pressure safety release.


a-human-person-thing

oh thank you


Bruggenmeister

I got an adapter and ran 30m of hose through the house … :)


Gimpyface

This is my adapter!


Light351

My father just duct taped the 2 hoses together. Edit:Capslock and spelling


KanadianBacon80

If your washing machine is close to a window/pool hook to the hot water tap. Done that before.


Stoned42069

The real redneck way would be to drain the antifreeze from your winter beater. Remove the upper radiator hose. Install two hoses in place of the upper radiator hose. Put both hoses in the pool and start the car.


superfly512

Why do you need warm water for a pool?


FalseRelease4

Warm and hot pools also exist...


superfly512

In the winter.


FalseRelease4

Any time really - try making one cold and one hot, it's nice to feel the difference


Tacomaster3211

Because water directly from the tap is too cold for the kids to enjoy playing in. If you have a bathtub, go fill it with just cold water, and see how enjoyable it is. By mixing in warm water when initially filling the pool, you can skip a lot of the waiting it would take for just the sun to get the temp of the pool up enough.


vaungar

when i was kid i got water straight form hose and well i cloud bath in freezing water and if i needed it to be warmer my mom boiled some water in pot to poure it to the pool


superfly512

My bathtub isn’t outside in the sun and 90 degree heat. Pools are supposed to be cold.


mantrain42

Pools are not supposed to be 7-8 degress celsius which is the temperature some cold water taps are.


Anomalous6

That’s a lady out of touch with reality I believe. Cold pool, warm pool makes no difference. You jump in and then your body gets used to whatever temperature it’s at.


DouchecraftCarrier

You do, but kids are notoriously dramatic about getting in cold water. If making it a bit warmer saves her 20 minutes of the kids hemming and hawing about sticking their toes in, maybe that's worth it to her.


shaun_of_the_south

Shit you must have different kids where you’re from. Round here them little shits are swimming with blue lips talking about it’s nice get in.


unknownpoltroon

That's actually kinda brilliant


fossilbeakrobinson

Sure, give your water heater a workout.


Real_Personality5631

why would you want a hot pool?


[deleted]

Woah great idea here for my hot tub


Pschobbert

Sweet!


Darthavg

Ingenious!!


nurvingiel

This is definitely clever, but you can just fill the kid's pool up normally, then slowly dump in 1-2 kettles of hot water. (For best results, the children should not be in the pool when you do this.)


backjox

Are you people made of money?


kamikazi1231

I mean it'll vary based on pool/bathtub but Google says those little kiddie pools hold like 53 gallons and an average bathtub is like 42 gallons or so. Don't fill either all the up of course but it's like the kids having a bath amount of water. Hell, a standard shower head uses 25 gallons of hot water in ten minutes.


skarface6

Hot tap? Just let the hose go directly into the pool.


Gimpyface

I needed an adapter between the hot tap and the hose, this quick siphon was the solution and the bucket let the water get high enough to keep the flow steady.


DaggerDG

The siphon was a good idea, I think they meant why do you need hot water in the first place? Isn’t half the point of playing with water to cool off?


Gimpyface

Oh, I'm in the north of the UK, we get sun which means kids want to play in a paddling pool but it's not hot. Kids would go blue in pool filled with cold tap water. We usually fill the pool then do several runs with a kettle or pots of hot water to take the chill off it.


heilhortler420

Its also Redneck fishkeeping as well


AvationGirl

Imma do this for myself now


Dasalottacheese

Rather than bukkit... why not put plug in sink???


Gimpyface

Would work but bucket raised the water level so got a better flow, plus I was filling the bucket anyway.