Why should evaporation reduction and heat/chemical loss be promoted?
New pool owners are especially apt to crank up their heaters, so they can get into the water sooner. That said, the last thing a builder wants is for the new pool owner to call and complain about their energy bill, or the fact they must keep adding water and chemicals into the pool. Therefore, it is important to remind clients when the air temperature is cooler than their pool water temperature, invariably, steam will begin to rise off the surface of the water. When this happens, it is not just the pool water evaporating into the atmosphere—it is also the heat and the money the homeowner will need to spend to rebalance their water chemistry upon introduction of new source water. That said, many pool owners—new and old—may not realize heat loss and evaporation can be quite expensive. Preventing water evaporation is one of the most cost-effective ways a homeowner can reduce unnecessary top-offs, chemistry adjustments, and heat loss. Further, with the many supply chain issues and shortages of chemicals, both homeowners and pool professionals should be doing everything they can to conserve chemicals and keep pool water balanced. Recommending an easy-to-use liquid cover solution is also one of the simplest methods pool professionals can suggest to their clients to help them save water, money, and energy.
Belcourt says liquid solar covers can do wonders with respect to preventing evaporation and, in fact, has several customer testimonials to support this claim.
For example, one of her clients who had success using a liquid solar cover product was one who had a cottage with a vanishing edge pool which was fairly remote and required water to be trucked in to fill it.
“This client hated having to put a solar cover on her pool because she had it built to enjoy its visual esthetic in her yard,” says Belcourt. “She told me it depressed her to see the solar blanket on her pool, but without it she would lose about 25 mm (1 in.) of water a day to evaporation and she couldn’t afford to keep trucking in more water.”
Belcourt sold this client a liquid solar cover product and, as a result, by simply adding it once a week the client was ecstatic, as it allowed her to enjoy the visual appeal of her pool all summer long and she did not need to add any water for more than eight weeks.
