ONE HEAT PUMP FOR EVERYTHING: HEATING THE POOL, HOUSE AND AIR AT ONCE

The owners had wanted a pool for a long time. At first the idea was a small plunge pool, but over the course of the project it grew into a built masonry indoor pool that can be used in every season. It is precisely this year-round use that makes the difference. An outdoor pool is heated for only a few months, whereas an indoor pool requires a constant, controlled climate throughout the year.

Adding the pool brought new needs the house had not had before:

• heating and cooling the pool water,
• heating and cooling the floor around the pool,
• heating, cooling and dehumidifying the air blown into the pool room.

All of this had to be added to the functions already in place, namely heating and cooling the living areas and preparing domestic hot water.

One of the functions that had to be provided when the pool was added is dehumidification of the air in the pool room.

With indoor pools, a general principle applies: managing the air is no less important than the water temperature. The pool room is therefore not merely a warm space, but a space with a controlled climate – the air must be suitably warm and, at the same time, adequately dry. A warm floor around the pool adds an extra layer of comfort. This is exactly why it makes sense for these functions to be covered by one coordinated system rather than several separate units.

During the renovation, the owners chose a geothermal (ground-to-water) heat pump, the KRONOTERM ETERA. The old heat pump was removed, additional boreholes were drilled, and a new geothermal unit was installed that now covers all the needs of both the house and the pool.

A geothermal source offers a special advantage in systems like this. It acts not only as a heat source, but also as a heat store. The heat drawn out of the house and the pool room in summer can be stored in the ground and, once the heating season begins, pumped back out and reused. Energy is not lost but circulates within the system.

Geothermal probes are an investment that pays off over the long term. They age together with the house and are amortised over the entire lifetime of the building, so if the heat pump itself is replaced later, the probes stay in place and do not need to be installed again.

The biggest advantage of this approach is not only that a single unit can do more, but also that everything stays simple to use.

You can think of the heat pump as the all-in-one kitchen machine of heating. In one unit it combines a range of functions: it heats and cools the rooms, prepares domestic hot water and pool water, and looks after the floor temperature and the climate in the pool room.

If such a system were assembled the conventional way, you would quickly end up with a complicated collection of devices – one heat generator, separate wall-mounted air conditioners, a dedicated pool heat pump. Each with its own manual and its own control logic. The user would have to know how every one of them works.

With a unified system, all functions are managed by a single heat pump in one place. The user controls it all from a smartphone, tablet or computer, through the user-friendly CLOUD.KRONOTERM interface.

Thinking about a system that connects your whole home into one? Contact us and together we will find the right solution.