During times of ever rising costs and greater consumer awareness of the world around us, providing a simple way to save energy, reduce expenditure and help the environment is always going to be a good thing.

Choosing the right installer when looking to get a swimming pool put in, to maximise your peace of mind, must be done carefully and meticulously. There are a range of factors that need to be considered.

What is winterising? It’s the term for closing your pool during the coldest months of the year. Unless you live in a part of the world that enjoys year-round sunshine and balmy temperatures, you’ll eventually have to learn how to winterise your swimming pool.

It should come as no surprise to most of us that swimming has innumerable health benefits. What might be more surprising is that the benefits are wider ranging than just “fitness”.

One of the most common questions we hear when pool builders are considering fitting a heat pump is, “what breaker does it need?”.

It’s a sensible question! Often though, we do hear about heat pumps being installed with the wrong type of circuit breaker, and this can lead to issues further down the road.

A large number of repairs that we see are not due to faulty units, but due to poor maintenance of the cleaner. Proper, regular cleaning can often be the difference between a large bill for parts and labour, and a functioning machine.

Put simply, there’s next to nothing in the way of “serviceable” parts in most swimming pool heat pumps – indeed most air source heat pumps in general. The part of any heat pump that does the hard work is its refrigeration circuit, which is a sealed loop. If this goes wrong, which is thankfully rare, it needs specialist attention. It’s not something that is otherwise touched.

It is entirely normal for air source heat pumps to frost, especially in cooler weather (start and end of pool season). All air-source units have some form of defrost function for this reason.