Redneck pool heater

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Convert a fire pit or old grill into a wood burning pool heater water heater. I bought a 16' x 4' pool, but found that a gas or electric heater would cost more than the price of the pool itself. I also had a lot of limbs and split wood from a fallen tree in my yard. This made for a very easy and effective combination. Now, when I burn wood in my fire pit, I also heat my pool.

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Years ago, redneck pool heater, Dick Hill melted a heat exchanger like this in moments without flow. A House for Noah by garywojnar in Backyard. You will need to first place your coil on the inside of the lid to check for size.

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Redneck pool heater

One very common way pool owners can extender their pool season is adding a heater. Going the traditional route involves permits, gas lines, electric lines, excavation, and re-plumb pool lines. It can quickly become a large expense. A simpler and more affordable way to heat your pool is buy making a DIY pool heater. Here is a step-by-step guide to how to make a simple solar-powered DIY pool heater. A DIY pool heater uses the heat from the sun to warm water in a hose that then goes into your pool. The success of your solar pool heater depends on the amount of solar exposure in your area. The warmth and efficiency of your DIY pool heater is affected by sun exposure, so placement is extremely important. Always be sure to wear and use proper safety materials such as goggles , gloves, long sleeves and long pants while working with any hand or power tools.

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Ricky Burning Hunk. I don't think that would happen in this type of system because the chlorine in the video is in a gaseous state, here it is mixed with water, although I think heat causes it to off gas, I still don't think it is any where as extreme as the video. LOL If it does break down over time I do treat my pool for metals weekly, so any copper that makes its way to the pool will be removed. We have a small pool out back, and are contemplating replacing it with a bit bigger one. Someday I'll get all of my projects posted up. Hmmm, so it's either loved or I'm an idiot. By bizydad bizydad Follow. It is exciting, really! This is similar to how a standard hot water heater works. This was much more efficient and allowed me to maintain a smaller fire to keep the water output in the range of F. Running a long single run of copper in a boiler like this offers a bit more potential for localized boiling.

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Redneck Pool heater. It is exciting, really! It may not display this or other websites correctly. I see what you're saying about the coil. Glad the pool is so warm. They also dramatically boost the water temperature coming out of the heater. Cold water was also piped to the standard shower mixing valve. The discharge hose is zip tied to the ladder and would become very obvious, very quick if something went wrong. I added the second half of the water hose to the outlet. Check me out on youtube; wannabejeeper tom; thanks for the heads up. When I was a wee lad I worked at a high country outfitting service and we had a water "system" that was a piped intake high up a creek and this pipe fed a steel tank above a campfire that then fed the showers. Momentary loss of flow with this kind of fire would flash the water to steam in well under a minute.