Looking if anyone has specific recommendations for cooling down my pool a bit. I'm in Florida, and the pool gets full sun pretty much starting at about 9:30 or so. Currently getting up to about 93 degrees. I would like to get it between 86-88, or at least not above 90. I don't really want to drop thousands on big time cooling mechanisms. I typically run the pool during the day, however I read about running it at night can help cool it. I ran it last night from 2-7. I have a bubbler and ran the bubbler from 4-7. This morning the temp was at 90 degrees before the sun is even out, so I anticipate the pool will at least be 93 in a few hours. Is there anything else I can do? I see these products that are basically PVC pipes that you put into a return jet or the polaris port and they run a fountain that can cool the pool by a couple degrees. Does anyone have experience with these? Would my bubbler not be able to do the same thing? Any other ideas? Thanks
Cooling pool
- Thread starter Zplayer
- Start date
- May 3, 2014
- 62,696
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
The evaporative coolers you see in the article above I believe do more cooling in the daytime. That's when the temp/dewpoint spread is at it's greatest and that spread is what they need to cool the water.
Thank you for the link. My only other question is how concerned should I be over lack of water circulation if I am putting something into a return jet?
Not at all. You are still returning water, just not quite as fast or efficiently. Not enough that you could measure any change in your pool.
I have tried MANY ways of cooling our pool temperature . Full Sun, Georgia. Hot like bath water! I went as far as purchasing a fountain to run at night. That worked- but only for the early hours during the day.
We ended up putting in posts to fly a parasail over the pool. We also have an umbrella we can boom over it. Keeping the Sun from directly heating the water has resolved this for us. I also float pool floats on occasion to keep it cooler.
We ended up putting in posts to fly a parasail over the pool. We also have an umbrella we can boom over it. Keeping the Sun from directly heating the water has resolved this for us. I also float pool floats on occasion to keep it cooler.