Pool water cooling

[Watermom]

The pittance this forum cost for registration is probably going to turn out to be the best money I'll spend on the pool from what I can tell so far.

I'm sure you're right about this! Thanks for subscribing and supporting the forum!

BTW -- Just like they used to tell you when you were in school, there is no such thing as a dumb question!

[mshumack]

I'm going to try a floating fountain. I see a few people recommending the fountain (and running it at night). There are some models that hook up to the pool return line and just sit out in the middle of the pool (I assume they have some sort of anchor).

The draw back is that I need to run my pump at night - but that's still alo tcheaper than selling my heatpump and buying a new heat/cool unit.

I think I "need" to run my pump/filter during the day since the sun is so strong in FL and I have SWG pool (meaning no chlorine production without pump running). I think I will end up no chlorine left in the pool during the daytime if I don't run the pump. So anyways I'll be planning on running my pump at night with the fountain and during the day too. Still cheapest soultion I think.

I'll let you know how well it works. It'll probably take me a week or two to buy what I need.

[waterbear]

Evaporative cooling doesn't work well in Florida where the normal summer humidity can approach 98%, even at night in August! Unless you are near the ocean and get the ocean breezes it might not work well at all.

[mshumack]

Thanks for the info. I'm in central FL so no ocean breeze. I guess it's back to the swapping my current heat pump with a heat/cool unit.

I have no confidence that the Glacier Pool Cooler will work - so unless I hear otherwise, I'm taking that option off the table.

[waterbear]

Thanks for the info. I'm in central FL so no ocean breeze. I guess it's back to the swapping my current heat pump with a heat/cool unit.

I have no confidence that the Glacier Pool Cooler will work - so unless I hear otherwise, I'm taking that option off the table.

If I am not mistaken the Glacier coolers are evaporative. They probably work very well in Arizona, where the company is located, with their very low humidity. Evaporative cooling is used in place of air conditioning effectively in such climates, but will not do much in Florida.
To give you an example, misters work very well to cool you off in dry climates and the mist quickly disappears and leaves you dry but in Florida all misters do is get you wet (as anyone who has ever visited Disneyworld in August can attest to!)

[stuckpipe]

I am having a sprinkler system put in and was wondering. Can I run 150 of 2" PVC in the trench they dig and connect it to my pool pump. Do you all think it would cool the water down a bit?

[Poconos]

Simple answer....no. PVC is actually a pretty good insulator, a lousy conductor of heat, and by just burying it in a trench the area around the pipe will eventually stabilize in temperature and lose any cooling effect. You need to constantly remove heat in some way.
Al