Pool Maintenance

Sweet!

When's the party?

 

If I added a solar heating system, would I have to upgrade the 3/4hp pump?

 

Pour some money in a hole and throw a boat in it...

 

Does it hold water yet?

 

i usually skip the small stuff, like leaks and plumbing...so the answer is

 

To answer your question solar heating is not real effective in the North East, think gas heaters are most used.

 

you could buy ALOT of wetsuits for the cost of a pool heater!

 

A dark pool bottom/sides would aid in keeping it warmer...midnight blue or something like it. Seafoam green sheds light, so, cold, but a dark forrest green would work. The typical light "pool blue" is hard on the eyes when it's bright out and it's not really conducive to warmth, either.
Black, if you wanna get your freak on.

 

Ummm no, the heat from sunlight is released in the first couple inches of water, it never makes it to the bottom of the pool.

 

I beg to differ. Every dark pool I've ever been in has had noticeably warmer sides and bottoms when exposed to the sun. Dive in, feel the bottom for yourself.

 

I have in the multiple pools I have owned. It is not because of the color of the pool.

 

Then educate me. What would be the reason?

I'm pretty sure the laws of physics would state that a cement hole full of water whose surfaces are dark is gonna absorb more radiation from the sun, than one with light-colored surfaces, and conductively transfer that extra heat.
The first time I felt it I knew I would never have a light-colored pool...their sides are as cold as the water.

 

This thread suddenly has my interest.

 

Roughly 5.5 degrees of difference at most. And that most is probably 1 degree too high.

That is comparing a white pool to a black pool.

 

That's more than enough to be used for inciting a global panic.

 

Try a solar blanket.
http://www.intheswim.com/c/solar-blankets-reels

 

Since you asked

Now would you like to discuss the weight of air in the back of your pickup truck?

 

Refraction isn't reflection and the material that is the "liner" will have an effect. Is this liner paint/tile/gunnite or is it as it sounds, a synthetic liner that simply provides a waterproof membrane like in an above-ground pool or cheap fix for an in-ground pool?

I wasn't wrong with the air in the truck bed. I just didn't elaborate to say that same pressure (weight) was also pushing up from beneath. It's 14.7lb/sq" all around.

 

Let this one die. Seriously.