What most of us want from our pool is a comfortable temperature for as long as possible, without needing to refinance the home to meet the heating bill. Luckily one of the most efficient alternative heating options there is is solar water heating, so solar heating for swimming pools is the perfect solution.
If you can afford the initial outlay, they seem almost a dream come true - free heating. One of the things that can potentially put a damper on your swimming pool solar heating project is what to do with the (big and ugly) solar panels. A really popular choice is to stick them out of sight on the roof of the house.
This is a fine solution, providing you take a bit of care. If you spend a bit of time getting this right then you can save yourself problems in future.
These solar swimming pool heaters carry water through pipes, and use every trick in the book to capture the radiated heat energy of the sun. This means two things - they will get heavy, and they will get hot.
Many solutions are called roof penetrating, which means the panels are fixed through the roof and into the structure of your home. So remember that hot materials (the panels) expand, then later contract. Make sure the fitter has some credible solution for this potential problem or rainwater will find ways into your house.
There are solutions to these problems, and they certainly should not deter you from going for solar heating, which will make your pool and even greater asset.