eaganchickens
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I need ideas for making a homemade pool heater for a 5,000 gallon pool. I was thinking of doing something like this http://www.coloradowindpower.com/page.php?26
homemade pool heater?
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MorelCabin
Quilting Extraordinaire
The people I know just run a couple of black garden hoses on thier roofs and it does great!
Try using a series of 15-foot black rubber hoses, tightly coiled, inside a wooden frame. Cover the coiled hoses with black plastic and install on a rooftop. Pump the water through the coiled hoses and into the pool. As the pool water moves through the hose it picks up heat. This lets you run a lot of piping into a small space.
Try using a series of 15-foot black rubber hoses, tightly coiled, inside a wooden frame. Cover the coiled hoses with black plastic and install on a rooftop. Pump the water through the coiled hoses and into the pool. As the pool water moves through the hose it picks up heat. This lets you run a lot of piping into a small space.
miss_thenorth
Frugal Homesteader
I posted a pop can solar heater as a thought to heat a chicken coop. Not sure how you're thinking ti could heat a pool though, as it heats air. Why not use black tubing coiled on a south facing roof, hooked up to the pump, and then put the pump on a timer to run every other 1/2 hour for daylight hours. I have seen it done this way many times, and after my addition to the barn is completed, this is what I will be doing, unless i see other better ideas, to heat my pool.
miss_thenorth
Frugal Homesteader
oh, and by the way, 
