Originally Posted by
Zackk
Have you ever owned a pool?
If spending $500 to heat your pool will allow you to swim in your >$5000 pool for another couple of months a year, then it makes pretty good sense to me. I don't care who you are, if you're swimming outside in October in central Illinois, you're not going to be comfortable.
My parent's pool has a solar panel that heats the pool. It was a cost upfront, but is free heat after that. And it lets us swim from April to late September, as opposed to June to August.
Heating a pool isn't stupid. It just lets you use your toy much, much more.
I guess I can see it in that case, but I have known people in warm parts of the country that heat their pools year round and it makes nosense to me to heat it in the summer time at all.
I haven't owned a pool myself but I have been swimming in unheated pools as late as mid october in nor cal which was pretty chilly but still tolerable for doing laps.