Villa Roquette is in Languedoc, near Adge, Beziers, Narbonne Montpellier and Pezenas. – tourism agencies here call this area “Sud de France” to explain, we are South of the South of France and get more sunshine (lots of sunshine makes great wine).
Call it what you like, Languedoc gets more days of sun (and has more good wine) than the rest of France
So it seems daft not to use it for heating. I have been wanting to do this for a long time, but never got round to it, until now – next week (if it is not raining) I will start on building and installing a heating system for our Swimming Pool.
Through the Internet I have got plans and designs which are simple, inexpensive and work – I found a calculator online which takes into account pool size, latitude, sun, shade, and a host of other factors and reckon I need about 15 square meters of solar heating to give me a very comfortable pool temperature and this will extend the use of the pool from April through to October.
Making and fitting the system is not complicated, materials cost abut 100 euro, I already have most of the items in stock, piping, plastics, tubing, mountings etc – so, hopefully the cost will be very small and the befits enourmous.
I will make notes and write up the progress.
Here is our pool as it is – next time I will outline the first stages of construction and installation of the heating system.
The Pool In Villa roquette
Hello Tony,
How’s the pool solar heating going then?
Regards
andy
What a brilliant idea! I would love to be able to do that, sadly the South of England is not QUITE as toasty as where you are! Saving pennies and the planet, good on you