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Originally Posted by tophcfa

Our concrete pool with waterfalls was installed by T&D and we love it. No gas where we live so we went with solar and a back up heat pump as well with a cover that stores under a small door inside our pool deck. We decided to have a rectangular shaped pool because it gives us more pool space and it is super easy and quick for one person to cover and uncover the pool. With the solar, we only need to use the heat pump during the winter months and we were very pleasantly surprised at how well it heats the pool on even the coldest days when the cover is kept on the pool when not in use. And running the heat pump in the winter costs no more than running the A/C in the summer, so our electric bill is about the same year round. Our pool is salt water, and we learned that during the winter we have to turn down the setting on the chlorineator when the cover is on because the cover holds in the chlorine and elevates the levels. The sun also reduces chlorine, so in the winter when the days are shorter and the sun is lower the pool looses less chlorine.

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