Hi - I ran across this site quite by accident, but am very happy to have done so. We've been in our home for 13 years, and inherited our pool in the purchase. My husband always took care of everything having to do with the pool ... but he passed away 2-1/2 years ago. We didn't open the pool the 1st summer he was gone. Last summer we had a new liner installed, purchased a new heater and converted to the salt system. I had the work done, had them open the pool, as well as close it. I only had to maintain, which was actually not that bad. However, the boys kept cranking that heat up and our gas bill was as high as it was in the winter (in Michigan, that can get quite expensive 
) I'm looking for opinions on everything pool-wise, 
... but specifically I was searching for the best way to cut down on the heating bill without purchasing one of those huge, bulking, solar covers, that take 2 people to handle.
Thank you for this great site, no doubt I will be spending many hours here!
) I'm looking for opinions on everything pool-wise, ... but specifically I was searching for the best way to cut down on the heating bill without purchasing one of those huge, bulking, solar covers, that take 2 people to handle.Thank you for this great site, no doubt I will be spending many hours here!
, you only have a few ways to keep the gas bills down. Of course the easiest (or maybe not) thing you can do is keep the heater off. Next would be a solar heater, if you have plenty of south facing roof to install one on. Then there's that move to Florida. Ok maybe that last one was a little drastic. 
Unfortunately I believe that a solar cover is a must in order to keep the heat from escaping. A solar cover in conjunction with solar heat system is your best solution. Of course moving to Florida is the better solution however I suspect this would be very costly 
