How To Increase Your Gas Pool Heater’s Life

Pool heaters are essential to ensure you can get the most out of your swimming pool, no matter what the temperature is outside. However, new pool heaters are also quite expensive. So, to make sure you’re not forking out an excessive amount of money on your swimming pool this summer, you need to learn how to prolong the life of your current pool heater. Make sure to service the gas pool heater in a timely manner.

Firstly and most importantly, the easiest way to take better care of your pool heater and increase its lifespan is to get it serviced by a professional once per year.

Not only does servicing prolong the life of your system, but it also ensures that your pool heater is operating efficiently and properly heating your pool.

Apart from just servicing your pool heater, here are some other top tips to lengthen your pool heater’s life:

• Keep the water warm but not spa warm

• Keep the temperature low when the pool is not being used – if the pool is not in use for long periods, turn the heater off

• Check the pool filters and rinse them often

• Use a pool cover where you can – it helps the pool retain heat

How Long Does A Gas Pool Heater Last?

Depending on how well you take care of it, gas pool heaters will typically last between 5-15 years. We understand that’s quite a large range, but the life of your pool heater can be influenced by a number of factors. Here are a few:

• How well you follow the steps above to lengthen your pool heaters life

• How often you get your pool heater serviced

• What brand/make/model your pool heater is (some last longer than others)

• How often you use it to heat your pool

• Where it’s stored (outside vs undercover)

• Luck: sometimes you just unlucky and things break

By taking good care of your gas pool heater, you might be able to triple its lifespan. If you don’t take good care of it, you might have to fork out a lot money on a new pool heater every few years.

What If My Pool Heater Is At The End Of Its Life?

Unfortunately, you can take the best possible care of your pool heater, but eventually, it’ll still break. When this happens, you’ll know about it because the heater won’t be heating your pool properly (or at all).

If you’re unsure whether your pool heater can be repaired or you need a totally new unit, book in for a service and get a professional around for a look. If you live in Victoria, you can book a service with us.

For one of our recent customers, their old pool heater was in desperate need of an upgrade and we were able to help them. Here is what their old pool heater looked like.

Here are some photos that we took as we were installing the new heater.

And finally, here is what the new pool heater looks like (a huge improvement).

Now that this happy customer has a brand-new pool heater, they can follow the steps at the top of this page to increase the life of their pool heater.