I thought i’ll revive this thread. We saw a nice house we liked in PQ with a pretty nice, decent size pool/hot tub combo.

Thanks for all the useful tips, about chemicals and solar cover.

I am kind of scared of the few hundred bucks a month utility costs. And I don’t know how much we’ll use it. Though I suppose if you have it right in your back yard, you use it. We probably won’t use it during the winter. A friend that lives in PQ claims he never heats the pool, just the spa and uses solar cover which in summer keeps the water at low to mid 70s.

I abhore cold water in the pool and so I am thinking I’d heat up the pool 3 days a week to low 80s degrees and run it the whole day (with solar cover while we are gone from home), so I can enjoy it morning and evening. This only from late spring to early fall, i.e. 6 months a year.

How much do you think I should budget in utilities for the pool heating and maintaining in those months, as well an in the off-months?

Many thanks!!!

P.S. How much a solar heater consumes to heat up your pool?