Pool Covers And Blankets

April 3 2017

Got Yourself Covered?

The easiest way to heat your pool is to install a swimming pool cover. Not only does having a pool cover keep your swimming pool clean, but they help to heat and trap the heat which in turn will reduce your energy costs.

When the weather gets chilly and you climb into bed at night – what do you do? Lie prone on top of your blankets? Or do you tuck yourself under the cover and pull it tight around you? Over time, we soon learn that if we are covered in bed, the closeness of the covers builds the heat that our body generates and keeps it close to us, keeping us warm all night. The same effect happens with an effective swimming pool cover.

Pool Heating NZ have access to a range of covers that can be installed on residential, commercial or school pools. The most common types of covers are the Solar Bubble, Debris Mesh and Thermal covers. Each type of cover provides your swimming pool with different benefits.

A Solar Bubble Cover will provide you with around 60% savings in your energy costs. Effectively, they are the best type of cover because whilst they allow the sun to heat your pool, they reduce evaporation and reduces your water usage. A Solar Bubble cover will also allow you to extend your swimming season.

A Debris Mesh Cover is a great option if your swimming pool is a family pool. Debris Mesh covers are a good preventative measure if you have small children as they prevent children from falling in. If you live in a heavy rainfall area, they are a good choice as they allow surface water to drain through while protecting the pool from falling debris. This makes them a good choice if your pool is situated by tall trees. Because debris is trapped, your time needed performing maintenance duties will be significantly reduced. And, as an added bonus Debris Mesh covers are lightweight and can be custom made to any shape which makes them a flexible option for many.

A Thermal Cover works best on indoor swimming pools. They are a great investment when you have an indoor swimming pool as they stop condensation and therefore reduce your need to dehumidify your indoor swimming pool room or area. Overnight, heated pool will tend to lose around 3-4 degrees of heat – having a Thermal cover will stop this. The added heat retention that you will observe with a Thermal Cover will also help you to save on energy costs.

So yes, there are options and very good reasons as to why you should consider installing a pool cover on your swimming pool. Pool Heating NZ can assist you with the right type of cover for you and help you to spend more time enjoying your pool and less time performing tiring maintenance.

April 3 2017

Pool Covers in Winter

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As the cold of winter approaches, you may be looking at ways to save money on your pool heating costs. Pool heating can become expensive when not carried out correctly.

You may be asking, “What can I do to save on heating my pool this winter?”

The number one thing that you can do is invest in a pool cover. Although they provide huge savings in energy costs, they are regularly overlooked by owners when installing their pool heating system.

How do pool covers provide financial benefits?

They reduce the amount of heat lost off the water’s surface, by providing an insulated barrier, reducing heat energy transfer to the colder air.
They reduce the amount of evaporation that occurs to virtually nothing. 70% of the heat lost from a pool occurs due to water evaporation.

Both of these things result in less energy needing to be used to maintain the pools temperature, however, the stopping of evaporation provides the biggest savings to energy costs.

An added benefit of pool covers, is they reduce the amount of leaves, dust and debris that enter and pollute the water. This also significantly reduces the amount of pool cleaning you will need to do, and the amount of chemicals required to treat the pool. A win – win situation!

Talk to us today, to determine the best pool cover options for your family!

April 2 2017

Is a Pool Cover Worth the Investment?

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Have you seen a pool cover on a friend’s or commercial pool? No doubt you are aware that they help to regulate your pools temperature, but you may wonder, are they really worth the investment? The simple answer is Yes!

How do pool covers work? Pool covers sit on the surface of the water, providing an insultated barrier between the warm water and the cool air above. This drastically reduces the heat transfer between the two, resulting in a warmer pool which requires less effort to heat, further resulting in a reduction in heating costs.

However, the biggest energy loss that occurs with swimming pools is via evaporation. Evaporation accounts for 70% of heat loss from a swimming pool.

What is interesting to note is that it takes 2.3 Kilojoules of heat to raise the temperature of 1l of water by ½ a degree Celcius. However, each litre of 26.5°C water that evaporates results in a loss of 2430 Kilojoules of heat

Using a pool cover, when the pool is not in use, is the single most effective way of reducing your pool heating costs, as evaporation virtually ceases to occur.

Furthermore, there are different types of pool cover types. Some are designed to heat the pool by allowing the use of solar energy. These covers not only trap the heat in, but help to reduce your heating costs by harnessing the free energy the sun provides.

The cost of investing in a pool cover is far outweighed by the benefits you reap in having a warmer pool, and significantly less ongoing energy costs for the 10-12 year life of the Pool Cover.

Would you like to have a warmer pool, but with significantly less heating costs? If the answer is yes, then a pool cover really is worth the investment!

We have a range of pool covers on our website, making it easy to find one that suits your needs.

Alternatively, you can ring our friendly team at Pool Heating Ltd on 0800 766 543.

March 29 2017

Keeping Your Pool Warm With The Elite Solar Blanket

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Does your pool lose heat overnight? An Elite Solar Blanket is the solution for this!

Elite Solar Blankets are the best available. This blanket looks like a sheet of heavy, durable blue bubble wrap, but is actually a large solar energy collector for your swimming pool.

The suns energy passes through the bubbles of the blanket, heating the water underneath. It then traps this heat in the pool, where you want it, via the insulation provided by the air filled bubbles, and the blanket sitting on the water’s surface.

The Elite Solar Blanket is the most cost efficient way to increase the length of time you can swim in the pool each summer. It can increase the usage by up to 3 months simply by harnessing the free solar heat provided by the sun.

An Elite Solar Blanket can:

Increase your pool temperature by up to 10° Celcius
Keep your pool cleaner by protecting it from dirt and debris
Reduce chemical costs as the pool is kept cleaner as a result of being protected from dirt
Basically eliminates water evaporation when used
Significantly reduces heat loss from heated pools by up to 75%
Reduces pool heating costs

The Elite Solar Blanket comes in two models. The Elite Super Bubbleä Ultra Heat Pool Blanket and the Elite Super Bubble Solar Blanket. It was designed in Australia to withstand their harsh sun conditions, so is the perfect product to cope with New Zealand’s similarly strong sun.

Over the past 10 years Elite has continued to develop their plastic formulas and colours to make them the best available on the market. As result you purchase the longest lasting and highest performing pool blankets.

Elite Solar Blankets can be crafted to fit any shaped pool. What’s more, they are very easy to both install and use with or without our handy rollers. These rollers can be manual, where you just wind the handle to remove the cover, or automatic.

Call us today on 0800 766 543 about an Elite Solar Blanket for your swimming pool!

March 27 2017

What is the Benefit of Having a Pool Cover?

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Swimming Pool covers. Everyone know about them, yet very few people use them. This poses the question: What is the benefit of using a swimming pool cover?

Pool covers are an important requirement when heating your pool for regulating the temperature. When a pool cover is not used, the heat held by the water is lost through the surface. This effectively means that all the energy put into heating your pool has gone to waste after the short amount of time you used it.

Using a pool cover hugely reduces the amount of heat lost from a pool, as it sits on the surface of the water (or just above) keeping the heat energy where it should be. It acts as a layer of insulation, stopping the heat of the water from being absorbed by the cooler air surrounding it. This is known as heat transfer. For naturally heated pools and pools with manmade pool heating solutions, it means that the pool can be kept warm for longer, without the need for further heating. It also results in keeping energy costs down for electrical and gas powered pool heating solutions by reducing the amount of energy required to reheat your pool every time you wish to use it.

If your pool is currently uncovered, and you wish to benefit from the use of a pool cover, have a look at our range, or call us today to discuss a pool cover solution to fit your swimming pool. No one likes jumping into a cold pool!