Choosing a Pool Heater in Australia: Why Your Postcode Matters
There is a particular kind of advice that gets recycled endlessly online, written by someone in a completely different climate, and applied confidently to backyards it has no business commenting on. Choosing a pool heater in Australia is a geography problem before it is a product problem. We span the tropics to the temperate south, and a system sized comfortably for Townsville will be visibly out of its depth in Tasmania. Here is what actually changes as you move around the country. The three things climate changes Before the state by state part, it is worth understanding the mechanism, because it explains everything that follows. How long your unheated season is. Every pool has a window where it is comfortable without help. In the tropics that window is most of the year. Down south it can be a handful of weeks. Heating is what you buy to extend that window, so the shorter your natural season, the more work you are asking the heater to do. How fast your pool loses heat. Heat loss is...