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We have solar panels on our roof. Our pool is always lukewarm.

@regberadaisy: nooooo....I haven't even gone in yet. We just opened it a few days ago against my will. I hate the pool because LO can't swim yet so it is just a hazard at this point.

We have a pool, it's 26,000 gallons in ground, we're in the northeast. We just bought the house, so we haven't owned it in season yet, but we have a solar cover. We also had a heater, but it was broken and we haven't replaced it yet. We're trying to see if we can get by without it. The only reason I would strongly consider getting one is to extend the season, but as we learned with an April opening this year, it's a huge pain to clean the leaves that fall into it, given that the pool is surrounded by trees.

Growing up I had an in ground pool. It had a built in heater, but we never used it because it was astronomically expensive. We just used a thermal cover. Unless you want the pool to be like bath water, it should be fine in the summer with all the warm temps.

@MrsCB: thank you! That was helpful.

@Alivoo01: are they significantly cheaper than blankets?

@looch: haha I have no idea! This is our second summer only with a pool!

My parent have had their in ground pool for over 25 years and we've only ever used a solar cover (looks like thick blue bubble wrap) They live in NJ and luckily the yard gets almost full sun for most of the day. They keep the cover on a roller at the deep end of the pool and it takes about 10 minutes for 2 people to roll up the cover. My dad will typically keep the cover on during cool nights, rainy days and if he knows there will be a stretch of days where no one will be swimming (vacation, busy weeks) so that if will be warm when we return. Typically the water is in the high 70's low 80's by mid summer we use the cover less and less. Typically they open the pool the week of memorial day and its closed at the very latest the last week of september. The cover also keeps a lot of leaves and debris out of the filter system.

@looch: I was thinking of the small round ones! DH said roughly 18x36 and 29K gallons.

I was wondering how people in colder regions use pools during the summer (I didn't realize pool heaters were so common I guess....)! We don't have a heater for the pool...its already 86 degrees in there and it'll only continue to get warmer. Today's high is 109 and tomorrow is 111 so, no heater other than our weather is needed.