How To Make a Pool Solar Heater
Heating your pool with the sun's energy is a great way to keep electrical costs down while keeping the water warm. The sun warms the components of the heater and transfers the energy into heating the water. By making your own solar pool heater, you'll be able to keep water warm for a whole season.
Supplies
- Black PVC T joints
- Black PVC piping
- PVC cement
- PVC caps
- Plumbers tape
- Threaded connector
- Water pump
- Lay out your PVC pipe T joints in a row next to one another. Connect them together with short, straight pieces of additional PVC pipe.
- Glue the pipes and the T connectors together using a PVC waterproof cement.
- Hook a PVC pipe on the right hand side of the completed row of glued T connections. Install a cap on the left end of the pipe.
- Lay out the other half of the PVC joints and repeat the process above for connecting them together. Position your line of T connections parallel to one another so that each of the bottom T connections is aligned with another. Set up the T connections so one of the caps is on the right side, and the other is on the left.
- Connect longer PVC pipes between the bottom T connections on each piece. When correctly completed the grid will resemble a series of bars.
- Use your PVC cement to glue these connectors together.
- Apply plumber's tape around the threaded connector and install the connector into the output end of the pool's water pump.
- Install the PVC pipes together on one end of the fitting, and cement them together.
- Connect the solar heater into the pool's filtration system, connecting the pump on one side to the pool's intake and the PVC pipe on the other side to the output. This will circulate the warm water throughout the pool.