Unheated pools

[SunLover]

Pool heat, as others have said, is a personal preference, but I would add, regarding your comment that pool heat is "expensive", that when it is taken into consideration that electricity and gas prices in the USA are absolutely astronomical, pool heating is in fact extremely good value for money.

[blott]

The pool water is normally 10F below the level of the air temperature without pool heating so, in June/July/August the pool water temperature is going to be around 80F or so.

If you can imagine heating water about 65 times the volume of your home hot water system for around 8 - 12 hours a day, then you can imagine that this is fairly expensive! Given the high charges in Florida for gas and electicity, the prices charged seem a bit of a bargain for me for a whole week of this.

[Cruella DeVilla]

Just put ours on this morning, so we shall see what the difference is like[msneek]

[DisneyDreamer]

We are planning an Xmas visit next year, the villa has a solar cover over the pool...do these make any real difference?

[chrizzy100]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by SunLover
Pool heat, as others have said, is a personal preference, but I would add, regarding your comment that pool heat is "expensive", that when it is taken into consideration that electricity and gas prices in the USA are absolutely astronomical, pool heating is in fact extremely good value for money.
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I can back you 100% about the high cost of Electric and gas.......[msncry][msncry][msncry][msncry]

[Tonish]

I'm going in August and I've asked our villa owner to have the pool heating on. I think she was a bit surprised because no-one had asked her for it at this time of year before. Maybe we're all softies in our family, but we've always needed the heating on even in July/August. The couple of times we tried it without heating we were very quickly on the phone to the agent to switch on.

Also, we've got four children who will happily play in the pool all day every day, so I prefer it to be "comfortable". This year, we're bringing my parents, who are well into their seventies and we want them to get good use of the pool as well.

Tonish

[Gamedude]

Thanks for the opinions about pool heat. When I meant expensive I meant the total extra expense to me financially as we are going for 4 weeks. I can understand why it costs so much but this is a lot of money to me and so wanted a few points of view to help me decide.

Thanks all.

[pango]

I was over late september/October last year and did not have the pool heated so I would be very surprised if you would need it heated in July/August.
I thought the temperature was just nice.
We had Kids aged 3-11 with us and we could not get them out of the pool at night.

[Ruth]

No, thankfully it had already gone when we moved here. I now spend at least 4 hours a week at the Burntisland pool as the children go to swimming club but it is now a beautiful modern facility well protected from the elements

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by drew2

Ruth did you use the old Burntisland open air pool that drew water straight from the sea - I think the temperature rarely got above 40degrees even mid summer. We used to travel about 20miles by train to swim there - it was awful.
Drew
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[resorthomerentals]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by DisneyDreamer
We are planning an Xmas visit next year, the villa has a solar cover over the pool...do these make any real difference?
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The solar covers on the pools in the winter months make a HUGE difference. Not in heating the pool up - you need a heater to do that, but in keeping the pool warm when not in use. Without the solar cover, the heater can be running all day just to get the pool up to temperature, but since the heater doesn't run at night, the pool cools down very quickly. The end result is a cold pool the next day, and the heater having to work overtime to warm it back up again. The pool will cool off much more quickly than it will heat up.