DIY Pool Heater - $50 Solar Heater

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  @DoItWrongYourself · 6 years ago · pinned

  Check out the DIY Pool Build we built this heater for: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiqEcp5LHLA">https://youtu.be/xiqEcp5LHLA</a>

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  @Tikolico · 5 years ago

  I&apos;m going to loop my pool water through my gaming computer, cool the rig, heat the pool, two birds with one stone!!.

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  @Rlprime · 5 years ago

  Scrap piece of plywood for free. <br>- said no one ever in 2021

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  @Team204 · 5 years ago

  I seriously thought Steve Buscemi started a DIY channel by hearing your voice! &nbsp;Love it!

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  @psd9850 · 3 months ago

  I have no swimming pool. I have no intentions to ever make something like this.<br><br>Yet, here I am.

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  @luanfs · 5 years ago

  I wonder how it performs and cooler weather conditions... like 70s

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  @mobyander · 5 years ago

  If you like this video, share it with your friends. If you don’t like it, share it with your enemies. Very clever. I love it

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  @nkitner · 5 years ago

  2021 Lumber costs turn a $250 DIY project into a $750 DIY project lol

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  @erikrempel · 3 years ago

  &quot;Do it Wrong Yourself&quot; that was enough to get my sub.. Irony, I love it. I appreciate the no-nonsense video, top notch work. Backyard builder approved.

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  @dimash244 · 3 years ago

  Instant temperature probe would be a great addition to this video

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  @bellashealingartistry · 4 years ago

  That was cute at the end when the girls said bye at the same time.

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  @markwisner3972 · 3 years ago

  I built my own version. I did some thing differently that make mine easier to deal with. I live in NC. All we need is to get the pool up to temp when we open it in April and allow us to stretch our season a couple of weeks in the fall. We do use a solar cover to help keep any temperature gain through the night. We don&apos;t want to look at the heaters all year so we need them to be portable or more portable than your version.<br>1) I made two 4&apos;x4&apos; heaters. Each heater has ~200 ft of 1/2&quot; irrigation tubing. A 4x8 panel is way too cumbersome for me to move around by myself. <br>2) I added two non-swivel casters to one side.<br>3) I added a handle on each of the other sides. <br>I can roll them away when I want to store them. The coils hold several gallons of water at 8lbs per gallon. They are pretty heavy. <br><br>I run a 500 gallon/hr pump and get a 10 to 12 degree temp increase. It may not sound like that but I am doing a pretty good flow rate. My pool is around 10K gallons. I am able to increase the pool temp 15 to 20 degrees in little over a week, depending on sun and outside temp. &nbsp;If the tubing feels warm then you are not absorbing as much heat as you could. <br><br>In the winter, it does go below freezing. We usually close our pool at the end of Oct. and reopen it the first week in April. If any water is left in the tubing, it could freeze and split the tubing. You could take an air compressor, get a garden hose air compressor connection at any RV store, and blow out the lines. But if you don&apos;t get all the water out, you could have a problem. I plan on pouring a couple of gallons of RV/Marine food grade antifreeze into a bucket with my pump and pumping it through the solar heaters. I will flush the antifreeze out with water in the spring.

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