Hi Adam and thanks for your kind words
I'm a frequent shopper on the net and use to import items from the US. Unfortunately have our currency droped quite a bit the last 6 months.
And if that´s not enough our custom nowadays never miss to charge me with tax wich usually is around 30% of the total cost (including handling and shipping). So it's not feasiable anylonger from a economic perspective, not when our currency is as low as it is. Not long ago (seems like few months only) I payed like 5 swedish krona for a dollar and now I have to pay over 9 krona for the same dollar
So if It possible to find a reseller here it's to prefer.
Thanks to the tremendous mas985 8) who gave me a link to a european reseller of pentairs products in another thread, I might be able to get both the intellflo pump and pentairs cartridge filter here. It's a bit to drive, but I will go there in business in a week so. I will have a chance to look up the pump and filter then.
To answer your question Adam! Even if the number of resellers of pool supplys more or less has exploded the last 2-3 years, are we still way after you guys. So I can't get all brands that you can choose from.
Hi Gooserider!
I have actually droped the plan to heat the pool with our wood pan. I have bought a heatpump for the purpose since I saw many advantages with a pump over the wood pan. To be able to wake up to a warm pool and take a morning swim without the hassel and wait-time for the woodpan to do it's job, is something I value. Since the heatpump runs when the temperature is high outdoors the effect it produces is also high. On my pump I get 5kw from 1kw in.
I don't know if it's hold any thruth but on a swedish poolforum where I participate every now and then is a common opinion that solar panels (the simple kind where you just pump in the pool water and let the sun do the job) is more or less waste of money. Since they only work when the sun is shining when many people prefer a little lower temperature in the pool in contrary when it's hot outside when the solarpanels gives more heat then you may want. That type of system also need a controlsystem that many seems to forget/skip due to the extra cost. So I have never really taken solarpanels in consideration for our situation. But again I really don't know much about it.
I've built a extra part of our house a couple years ago and there I molded in water hoses in the ground so I don't need any radiators in that part of the house. Radiators is what we have in the rest of the house for heating. floor heating works very well if you have enough isolation underneath the concrete. 300mm of celluar plastic is what we recommend over here if it should be worth while. But still if you have that amount of isolation you have to decrease the temperature 1-2 degrees if you gonna save energi on it. Since you experience a room with a heated floor warmer compared to a room with radiators it's possible to do so. What talks against it is a study I've read(and also from my own experience) that once you get use to a warm floor you a more willing to keep the heat on for longer in the spring and for that reason the total economy becomes negative. But it feels good though :-D
My heat pan is connected to a accumulation tank of 2400litre water, with a heat exchanger where tapwater is running mounted in. The water in the tank is a closed system and it's water runs in our radiators and in the floor. It takes 1,5 loads of wood to heat the accumulation tank from 35 degrees C to 90 degrees. That amount of water usually last 2 days in the winter and 6 days in the summertime when we only use it for tapwater.
Regards Mats
