Personally, I can't get into a pool until it's at least 86º but I have heard a lot of people complaining lately that their pools are too hot. LOL ************************************************** Maggie Galehouse The Arizona Republic Jul. 20, 2005 04:53 PM
Tired of feeling like a cooked carrot in warm chlorine stew, Chandler's Rick Gerloff turned to the Internet for a solution to his utterly un-refreshing pool.
What he found, at www.glacierpoolcoolers.com was a pool cooling system that promises to drop the temperature of a pool by 10 to 12 degrees in as many hours.
"If you kick on the cooler Friday night, by Saturday morning the pool is cool all day," said Rick Argovitz, founder of Austin-based Glacier Pool Coolers. Argovitz relocated to Scottsdale three weeks ago to expand his private company in Arizona, which boasts more than 300,000 residential pools. advertisement
Soaring summer temperatures make Arizona and California key markets for pool coolers, Argovitz said.
When it's 114 degrees outside, a backyard pool can be as hot as 90 degrees, at least 10 degrees warmer than you want it.
His cooler, which costs $1,495 plus installation, sucks pool water into a 4-foot-high tank at a rate of 30 gallons a minute. A fan cools it over a set of plastic coils. The chilled water then drops into a reservoir and is pumped back into the pool.
Running a pool cooler costs about $2.50 a day, the same price as running a ceiling fan.
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Uhh... just leave the cover off the pool and it will evaporate so quickly the water will keep itself cool.
Even if the water is 90 degrees you can still get hypothermia.
Posted by Carl Wood (Member # 1223) on :
Wow - I have yet to encounter a "Pool too hot" - - I've been in a few chilly ones, though! As well as some pretty warm ponds frog gigging & such. You could always head for the natural springs in Florida - year round 68-72 degrees. I've checked out 10 or 12 of 'em, all good & outstanding scenery & wildlife. Saw my 1st bear in the wild in Florida by the Rainbow River. Those are my favorite all time swimming holes - I just wish Cypress Springs was still open. When Jacque Coustea dove in Wakulla Springs, (Where they filmed "Creature from Black Lagoon" as well as most of the early Tarzan movies),he pronounced the visibility as "Forever". Wakulla is one of the world's biggest, deepest, & clearest freshwater springs. You can throw a penny in the main pool & watch it sink 163 feet & see it on the bottom. . . .sorry to go off on a tangent - -just caint see how "Pool Water" can be too hot - -iff'in it's wet that's good unuff for me - -
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Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
...and they laugh at us 'cause we plug in our cars in the winter... Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
Duncan..... Posted by Jackie B (Member # 186) on :
Believe it . . . we use ice in our pool. If it get's that extreme. Our pool water has gotten warm, but then enough evaporates from the sun that we can usually just put the hose in and fill with cool water. Ours is just an above-ground - nothin' special, but big enough (15'x30') to keep us cool. Besides, we dip in the pool, stay wet, and then go in the house and turn off the a/c and just use fans. It's really cool that way, and saves energy. Almost $1500 plus $2.50 a day? Plus the cost of running the pump & filter for 8 hours? I'll stick with the old fashioned method of ice and cool refills. (of course, we only get up to 105 here, at the most). Anyone wanna go swimmin'? Bomba-Dear
Posted by Ken Holden (Member # 5653) on :
Cool site Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
Thats pretty neat Kim but... we purchased a "fountain" that plugs into the return nozzle (inside the pool below water level) it throws the water in the air (any where from 2' to 20') and cools it...this time of year our pool will get to 90+ but with this fountain it stays at around 82 to 84...if it gets too warm we leave it run all nite and it cools the pool at least 10 degrees.
Astheticly it's nice too...just to have a fountain in the back yard!
This unit cost us $120.00 /10 years ago and we've been using it every year with great satifaction ever since.
$1,500. is a bit steep for me!
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Posted by William DeBekker (Member # 3848) on :
I want to know what ceiling fan costs $2.50 a day to run. I have 5 in our house so that would give me a $375 electric bill a month without anything else. Mines not even half that and thats with the AC going 24/7.
Plus we don't have a pool. I wonder if it would cool down our Creek.. Sometimes that creek can get to 60* or 70*.
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