Use hula hoops to keep your swimming pool warm year-round using the sun.
Thanks go to Edward Hujsak for the original article in MAKE, Volume 23.
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I’m a new in-ground pool owner and while the previous homeowners left me a solar cover that’s essentially heavy-gauge bubble wrap, it’s so large that it’s impossible to wrangle by myself. So I’d love to try this, but before I sink time, effort, 7 (albeit not too much) money into this project… do these really help warm your pool?
They certainly wouldn’t have the insulating effect that your giant bubble-wrap cover has. So if you depend on your cover to prevent the temperature from dropping at night-time I doubt these will help much with that.
During the day, though, if they’re black and in the sun they pretty much can’t help warming things up.
My DIY redneck pool heater would be a lot less fuss.
http://www.redneckpoolheater.com/
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