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Originally Posted by Love2Swim
The good commercial pools have water chillers which are turned on in the summer in Florida. There are terrific pools in Clermont and up in Gainesville that are chilled. You won't find that in The Villages, too cheap.
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I priced out the installed price for a chiller for a typical neighborhood pool a number of years ago. It came to around $5,000. I had called a major supplier of pool chillers in the USA. He said his company has sold many chillers in places like Arizona and many in Florida as well. You can usually lower a pool’s temperature around 6-8 degrees. So if the water is 94 you can lower it to 86. I mentioned that the price may be an obstacle, but then he said that when you go to replace a heater for your pools, just replace it with their heat pump that both heats and cools the pool. Excellent idea. Cost of electricity was modest for running the heat pump.