Working with the sun since 1981

Solar pool heating in Southern California

Actually enjoy your pool.
Without the gas bill.

Solar pool heating from a Riverside family business. Free heat from the sun — no gas, no new power bill.

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Licensed, bonded & insured — C-46 Solar Contractor #924564 · Riverside, Orange & San Bernardino counties

40+Years in solar
ThousandsSystems installed
12-yrPanel warranty
5.0 40+ Google reviews

It starts on your roof

How solar pool heating works

Your pool pump sends water up to black solar pool panels on the roof. The sun warms it on the way across, and it comes back down into the pool a little warmer every pass, all day, on its own.

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The whole system as a model: the pool pump sends cool water up the side of the house to the solar pool panels on the roof, and warm water comes back down to the pool
  1. The pool pump and filter beside the house, with a pipe running up the wall to the roof

    01The pump

    Cool water goes up

    The pool pump you already own sends water through the filter and up to the roof. No new motor, no gas line.

  2. Black solar pool heating panels on a tile roof, warming as water flows across them

    02The panels

    In cool, out warm

    Inside every panel the water spreads through hundreds of small tubes and soaks up the sun's heat, the way a garden hose left out in the yard does. No fuel burned, nothing metered.

  3. The warm return pipe running down the side of the house and back into the pool

    03Back down

    Warm water comes down

    A second pipe carries it back to the pool, a little warmer every pass, all day long.

  4. Close up of the solar controller on the wall, its screen reading the pool temperature, the temperature set for it, and solar heating on

    04The controller

    Smart enough to leave it alone

    You set the pool temperature you want once, like a thermostat. The controller sends water up while the sun can add heat and stops when the pool gets there. Nothing to remember.

The result

Swim from March into November

On its own, a pool around here is comfortable from June to September. Heated by the sun all day and covered at night, it's March into November — twice the swim season, none of the gas.

The sun puts the heat in. A blanket at night keeps it in. Our numbers count on both. Weather permitting, of course — every pool and every year runs a little different.

2×The swim seasonEight months in the water instead of four
$0Gas to heat itThe sun does the heating
1–2 daysA typical installationStart to finish

A real solar-heated pool logs its temperature every minute. See the live data

Typical for a properly sized system — your roof, your pool and the weather set the real numbers. Weighing it up? Read why solar pool heating is worth it, and when it isn't.

Before & after

The same roof, before and after

One recent job from the air — the bare shingle roof before we started, and the finished solar pool heating array once the crew wrapped up.

Aerial view of a brown shingle roof before installation, with no solar collectors and the pool equipment already in the side yard Before
Bare shingle roof, with the pool and equipment already in place below.
Aerial view of the same shingle roof after installation, now carrying a black solar pool heating collector array After
The finished collector array — plumbed, strapped down, and ready to heat the pool.

Solar Pool Services

Installation, repair, replacement — the whole life of a system

We design and install new solar pool heating systems for swimming pools and spas, and we service the ones already on the roof — including systems we didn't put there.

  • Spa-warm, sun-powered. With the right roof exposure a spa runs 100°F+ on nothing but the sun.
  • Built for this climate. UV-stable solar mats engineered for intense Southern California heat, with decade-plus durability.
  • Commercial & therapy pools. Consistent warmth and serious savings for commercial and therapy pools, swim schools included.

Built to industry standards

Every panel we install carries all four.

  • SRCC OG-100 The collector's heating output, independently tested and rated.
  • NSF/ANSI 50 Tested for use with pool and spa water.
  • ISO 9001:2015 The panel maker's quality-management standard.
  • IAPMO R&T Listed to the plumbing codes.

Southern California

Solar pool heating across the Inland Empire and beyond

Installs, repairs and warranty work across Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties, the High Desert and the Coachella Valley — thousands of systems since 1981.

See what it would take on your roof

Build a price online from a satellite view of your roof, or call and we'll walk through it with you. It's free, and there's no obligation.

  1. Tell us about your poolOnline, or over the phone.
  2. We look at your roof and equipmentA free visit, on site.
  3. You get a firm priceNothing is owed until you decide.

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