Hooked up a wood stove pool heater today. It's all sst and so far it's raising the temp by 1 deg. per hour. Now I will have to spend more time in the woods cutting wood for this stove. Oh shocks
Pretty cool, never heard of one. So, you go in the woods, cut wood, get tired and hot. Go home, split and stack the wood, get tired and hot. Then you get into the pool and find it is too hot ... Greg
Cool .............(warm) 86° pool temp the goal ? Will you need to run it most of the summer or will summer arrive & it can be shut down ? You got good dry wood to burn, makes it a "Great $$ saver" . Pool picture
Awesome. I have been wanting to make a wood heater for a hot tub. Anyway you could get a pic of the inside? That is going to be awesome, enjoy
Yup the boss likes a warm pool anywhere from 85 to 90 will keep her happy. This is our first year with a pool at the new house and it was up to 82 last Sat. just from the sun and sola blanket. Of course with the weather this week it fell to 64. If the sun comes back out and with the heater going it should be easy to keep it at her favorite temp. I am thinking we can swim in May and June with the heater. Then summer will take over. September and October the heat will go back on this will give us two and a half to three extra months over the house. Last night it hit 41 so the stove came just in time. They say you will use from 1 -2 bush cords per season but that is in Canada so I am thinking about 1 cord here. First time I ever hear it called a bush cord.
I've known a few folks who have heated their pools with wood and all love it. Seems like 1-2 degrees per hour is not a bad figure to aim at too.
That's pretty cool. Did you just hook in to the circulator pump used for the filter, so really no extra electric, right?
Yes the same idea as a boiler just on a smaller scale. This one is from Canada and shipped to my lumber yard was $2563.00 comes with all the plumbing needed to hook up the bypass from the filter. Correct no electric needed it just goes after the filter and before the salt generator.
Pool heater update: kids tru a 40th anniversary party for us on Saturday at our house of course. I fired up the new pool wood stove at 7:30 am the water temp was 69 five hours later at 12:30 water temp was at 79. That's right 2 deg. Per hour with the air temp in the upper 60s. We kept the fire going till 6:00 that night when the pool hit 88 deg. The mfg of the stove said I would get 1+ deg. per hour with a 24000 gal pool as ours is only 9400 I was hopping for more and am very happy with the results. Also had the fire pit going so my grandson could cook his first ever linguisa dog and a samor.
Hey, congratulations on your 40th year! Not many seem to make it that far any more. You can be proud.
