[laceylady]

We had a pool built last April. It has an electric heat pump. Grandkids were here 10 days in 12/2014 when the air temps were I. The 70's and approaching 80. It cost us $125 to heat the pool for parts of most of these 10 days. That equals $375/mo. The pool faces SE and gets lots of sun. For the past few days with the heater off, the pool temp. has been about 6 degrees higher than the air temp. We are thinking about adding solar but I would like your opinions, especially if you have both solar and a heat pump or just a heat pump.

1. If you heat your pool with only a heat pump in the winter, what is the average monthly cost?

2. If you use both a heat pump and solar in the winter, what is the cost?

We have been quoted a price of $4,000-$5,000 to add sollar. I am trying to figure out the break even point for this. Thanks for any help you can give me. We heat the pool to around 85o.