HI,

Can someone help me work out costs?

My wife bought a £30 8Ft Intex pool.

So this thing turns up, and takes 8 hours to fill and its HUGE!

Realised the water is cold, and afcourse its not a pool that can be emptied and filled for use!

So i need:

• Water Pump with Filter - £40
• Heater - £100
• Chemicals - £30
• Air Pump - £15
• Adapters for tap to fill tank - £10
  
• + other bits im not sure of yet.

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The heater is a 3KW heater - and been told it takes 12 hours to heat the water - can someone tell me how much this will cost in electric to have on for a 24 hour projects.

 

I don't believe yu can't work it to out yourself

 

At an average cost of 15pKW/H, so roughly 45p per hour £5.40ish a day.

160quid a month to run.... That's assuming its running full tilt all day every day, it will be slightly less this time of year on a hot day, but obviously cost more in the winter.

30quids worth of chemicals won't last a month either, and you also need. Test kits etc too.

 

Depends on how often the heater kicks in to keep the water at a constant temp. Assuming its on constantly for the first 12 hours theres about £5 worth of leccy to start with.

 

Maybe hes got solar

 

we have a v large Intex - take 4 days and nights to fill!!!!!!!

it came with a pump etc, the chemicals are not that expensive tbh

as for heating, after a couple of years we bought a special "heat cover" - which looked suspiciously like "bubble wrap" to me but it did make a bit of a difference

other than that - wetsuits

 

Solar electricity isn't worth doing anyway!

I run my hot tub off my solar/gas heating system doesn't really cost me a penny to run unless it is extremely cold as I put the tub inside

 

YouTube has plenty of videos of people "bodging up" solar panels (and pumping water through them)

a fun project if you have time - but it's wetsuits for us tbh

 

If you don't already have one, a solar pool cover would help reduce heat loss from the electric heater, and also capture some of the natural warmth from the sun:

(other brands and suppliers are available)

 

1. Solar pool cover as above.
2. Check out ebay for filter pumps and chemicals.
3. Buy a skimmer and a surface net, one pole needed for both.
4. I cleaned debris off the bottom by fixing a 4' length of rigid tubing to a garden hose, set up a syphon and syphon the muck down the drain. Takes half an hour to do, but more effective than trying to use a pool vac, whether hosepipe or electrical, also wastes less water.

I've just taken a 6m x 3m Intex pool from bright green to clear and usable with a quarter of a tub of chlorine shock, three cupsfull of Soda (low pH round here), and changing the filter every three hours during daylight hours. The filters are now lasting a week, at least.

DO NOT discard filters unless they are holed...wash out with a scrubbing brush with long bristles in a sink of hot water, leave to dry, re-use. Having one spare helps.

Friends also constructed their own solar heating for their pool, south facing sheet of plywood, flexible pipe, (cheap hosepipe), zig-zagging inside, small electric pump, spray the whole lot matt black, enclose with a couple of sheets of acrylic , total cost from Wickes etc, under £30. Works a treat in any sunshine, nine months a year.

I don't need one at the mo....last week the water temp was 88 deg............Fahrenheit, of course.

 

as if......


only a lunatic would throw out the old filter - I soak mine for a couple of days and reverse flush them with a pressure washer