Heat Pump-should I?

[papadoppa]

Howdy. One of the houses (I’m in luxury residential construction) I’m working on had a pool that wasn’t being used for 18 months. The new owner wants all new pool equipment and aside from the VSP and CCP being replaced simply because they’re rich they’re trashing a few heat pumps.

One is a Pentair ultra pump 140. My pool is only 10k gallons, this pool is giant in comparison, had 2 heat pumps, 2 heaters and numerous pumps. Many things being trashed for no good reason tbh.

Here’s my quandary-I planned on putting a heat pump into my pool as I have no gas and living in Phoenix it’d be nice to have chilling in the summer and cooking in the winter. That said I don’t have the $$ to spend on that right now. I was hoping to do it this fall/early winter.

Considering this house hasn’t had water in its pool for a while, the equipment hasn’t been ran and there’s the potential for this heat pump to not work would it be stupid to store it on my side yard and attempt to run it knowing that worst case scenario is I replace the heat pump and best case is it works?

I’m torn. Sometimes it’s just easier to buy new but the 5k savings is legit. That’s 5k to buy…food? Gas? Anything really.

 

[ajw22]

Howdy. One of the houses (I’m in luxury residential construction) I’m working on had a pool that wasn’t being used for 18 months. The new owner wants all new pool equipment and aside from the VSP and CCP being replaced simply because they’re rich they’re trashing a few heat pumps.

One is a Pentair ultra pump 140. My pool is only 10k gallons, this pool is giant in comparison, had 2 heat pumps, 2 heaters and numerous pumps. Many things being trashed for no good reason tbh.

Here’s my quandary-I planned on putting a heat pump into my pool as I have no gas and living in Phoenix it’d be nice to have chilling in the summer and cooking in the winter. That said I don’t have the $$ to spend on that right now. I was hoping to do it this fall/early winter.

Considering this house hasn’t had water in its pool for a while, the equipment hasn’t been ran and there’s the potential for this heat pump to not work would it be stupid to store it on my side yard and attempt to run it knowing that worst case scenario is I replace the heat pump and best case is it works?

I’m torn. Sometimes it’s just easier to buy new but the 5k savings is legit. That’s 5k to buy…food? Gas? Anything really.

For 0 cost your risk is low. Plumb it in and connect it to a 50-60 amp electrical line and see if it works. If not you have the setup for when you buy one.

 

[jark87]

chilling in the summer and cooking in the winter.

I’d also give it a go for free, assuming the transport/install costs are minimal. In regards to chilling, based on my research from several years ago, heat pumps in chiller mode are pretty expensive to operate, so keep that in mind. I went with a Glacier chiller because of that and couldn’t be happier, but then again, I didn’t have a free option.