I plan on heating the pool with my Pentair MasterTemp heater with the cover on. What is the best practice? Leave the autocover on while heating then open? Or heat with the cover off. Just don’t want to mess up any water chemistry or cause any issues. First time pool owner and I have nightmares of water chemistry that I messed up before I found this lifesaver website!
Heating with autocover
- Thread starter sodfather
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Leave the cover on so that expensive heat won't go up in the air. Undercover heat won't affect chemistry enough to notice, if at all.
Your only worry might be the vinyl cover softening from the heat. It won't. (Unless climate change accelerates more rapidly than predicted, then you won't need to use the heater anyway.)
Your only worry might be the vinyl cover softening from the heat. It won't. (Unless climate change accelerates more rapidly than predicted, then you won't need to use the heater anyway.)
an1vrsy
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- Jul 10, 2018
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You’re in IL, you want to heat the pool? I’m curious when did you open? What is the water temp?
I ask only because here in the desert today my pool water was up to 88 degrees. I have an auto-cover which I close so I do not get the overnight evaporative cooling. When the air temp was 103 jumping into 88 was still refreshing.
I ask only because here in the desert today my pool water was up to 88 degrees. I have an auto-cover which I close so I do not get the overnight evaporative cooling. When the air temp was 103 jumping into 88 was still refreshing.