For people running a pool heat pump, how much does it actually stretch your season on both ends? mornings here still drop into the 60s in june
trying to figure out how much a heat pump would actually buy me on each end of the season. north carolina, 18k gal inground. it's june and the water still drops into the 60s overnight, so morning swims are out and even afternoons take a while to warm up. by the time it's comfortable the day's half gone.
i keep going back and forth on a heat pump. part of me says summer's basically here, why spend now. the other part says i've already lost spring to cold water and fall's going to do the same in reverse.
for people who added one: did getting a heat pump partway through the season still feel worth it, or did you wish you'd done it in spring or waited til next year? i mostly care about extending the comfortable months on both ends, not heating it to bath temperature in july.
also is an inverter one actually worth the premium over a basic on off model for just stretching the season? that's the part i can't get a straight answer on.