Recent content by jel3412

Wow Uncle Dave - good thing you get the math because math was never really my strong suit :). Thanks for the insight. I will just keep plucking away and hope that my cover shows up sometime. Unfortunately it didn't show up today.

Thank you for your responses. I believe my cover should be here today. In order to get the pool up to about 85 degrees, I guess I am not sure if I should run the pool pump and heat pump 24/7 or just run it during what would have been normal pump hours (for us would be 7 a.m. until 10 or 11 pm)...

We recently installed a solarium 105,000 BTU heat pump that I purchased through poolheatpumps.com. The temps have not been great here in KS this week only in the low to mid 60's with on and off rain, not much wind. I have run my heat pump 24/7 since Friday morning and the water temp as of...

I did notice that the heat siphons were discontinued right now. I was looking at the 105000 btu solarium from rome.

I did talk to the guys at poolheatpumps.com and I think we have decided to get the Rome Solarium heat pump. Hopefully this is a good choice. If anyone has info - good or bad on the Solarium heat pump let me know.

Thank you so far to everyone who has responded. At this point doesn't look like anyone has experience with the little giant or coates - still holding out on some hope of hearing about those regardless of whether the feedback is positive or negative.

We have an 18 x 36 lagoon/kidney shaped sports pool (shallow on two sides, 6' deep in center) approx 19000 gallons. When we first moved to Kansas the summers were crazy hot, so when we installed the pool 3+ years ago we did not think we would need a heater so we ran no gas lines. As luck would...