No matter the size or style of your swimming pool, electric powered inverter pool heat pumps can be a smart way to keep water warm throughout Adelaide’s Mediterranean seasons.

It can be hard, choosing between solar pool heating, gas pool heating, and electric pool heat pumps, but I’ve got three considerations to share with you to help make that choice easier.

They revolve around these factors:

• Availability of roof space for solar pool heating systems
• Ambient heat in the atmosphere in Adelaide
• Applying science to pool heater capacity selection

Let’s dive in.

A top-down approach for choosing electric inverter pool heat pumps

It’s fair to say that solar pool heating is an area of ongoing technological development and there’s a lot of interest in that approach to pool heating.

However, as we explain to people, almost daily, solar pool heating systems rely heavily on having adequate roof space for either the rubber systems or rigid panel systems currently on offer.

If your home does not have enough space for installing the correct amount of solar or an expansive array of solar panels, your pool will rarely make it to your preferred temperature. This is where electric inverter pool heat pumps provide a sound solution.

For example, on a project in Seacliff, we determined there was not enough roof space for maximum coverage of solar pool heating.

So the Adelaide Pool Heating team was able to remove the under-capacity solar pool heating system and replace it with a 35kw Vortex Pro series inverter.

Within two days, our client was swimming in 29 degree water and that temperature didn’t drop below that point until mid-Autumn.

This is what we do every day. We discuss requirements with every pool owner we meet and then develop a system that will be the best match. In this case, it happened to be electric inverter pool heat pumps for the win.

We later heard their children’s birthday parties in autumn and winter were able to be celebrated around (and in) the pool because the water temperature was “just right”.

As a further point to note, choosing electric pool heating gives you the option of having us mount your heat pump on a roof or even on a wall, keeping it discrete, neat, and tidy.

And they run as quietly as a dishwasher, so your envious neighbours won’t become angry neighbours.

Do you like solar pool blankets?

The next question to help you decide if electric inverter pool heat pumps are a better choice for you is do you like solar pool blankets?

We love solar pool blankets because they make any pool heating system more efficient and effective, by trapping warmth in the water and preventing heat loss, as well as helping reduce evaporation and chemical loss.

However, we’ve also been around long enough to know that you might be a pool owner who doesn’t like pool blankets or, more likely, really want to show off your pool as a key feature of your home without being covered up.

If you really don’t want to use a solar pool blanket, we will steer you towards a solar pool heating system. Without a blanket, your running costs of an electric pool heating system will skyrocket to about tenfold, which blasts the efficiencies and savings they can bring out of the water (so to speak).

For pool owners in Adelaide and South Australia, choosing an electric inverter pool heat pump in use with a solar pool blanket is a very smart option, because this combination benefits powerfully from our Mediterranean climate.

You see, 80% of the (heating) power for your pool comes from the atmosphere. So, the warmer it is, the better your electric pool heat pump works – and that’s further boosted by your blanket. This does make pool owners in Melbourne and Hobart quite jealous of their SA cousins!.

Does the capacity of your pool heater match the volume of your pool for the period you want it heated for?

This is a crucial question for any pool heating solution, but for this article, I’ll focus on electric inverter pool heat pumps.

As with all heating appliances, the tool you choose needs to be up to the task. For example, a small bar heater is perfect for someone living alone but a large family with a larger living space might need reverse cycle air conditioning the spread the warmth efficiently.

It’s the same for pool heating and, sadly, we visit many pools where previous heating systems were installed based on price not purpose! Meaning heating solutions will struggle to achieve temperature targets or will need to work overtime to get there and end up having shorter life spans.

Inverter technology in electric heat pumps works in the same way as it does in your refrigerator. By leaving it on, it can efficiently maintain the temperature, using less power overall.

While smaller systems might be cheaper at first, in the end, nobody wins because the pool temperature is never right and the heater needs to be replace before it should be.

When you chat with us at Adelaide Pool Heating, we’ll visit your site to size up exactly the KW range you need to warm the volume of water you have.

But it’s not just a simple volume to KW power equation. We use pool heating data produced by the CSIRO and University of New South Wales, which also takes into account:

• pool size
• standard air temperatures in your area
• number of swimmers
• amount of shade or lack thereof
• use of a pool blanket
• desired swim season
• desired water temperature

This means that when we make a recommendation of the level of kilowatts your electric pool heater  will need to heat your pool and maintain its temperature, it will not be a guess. It will be based on solid data.

I suppose this is a lot to consider but it’s exactly the sort of situation we help pool owners digest and understand every day, and we’d be happy to do the same with you.

We have a good range of reliable electric swimming pool heat pumps of various sizes and brands to meet your budget and your requirements in South Australia, so you can dive into decision making with confidence.