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Real installs, real roofs

Forty years of solar pool heating across Southern California — here's a look at the work itself. Every system is custom-designed for the pool and the roof it sits on.

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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 — 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 — The finished collector array — plumbed, strapped down, and ready to heat the pool.

Our work

A few of the systems we've built

Backyard pool and spa heated by a rooftop solar collector array — Backyard pool and spa, heated by a rooftop collector array.

A full rooftop solar pool heating collector array overlooking a valley — A full rooftop array, custom-fit to the roof's pitch and orientation.

The Solar Pool Services crew framing and mounting a rooftop system — Our crew framing and mounting a system on site.

Rooftop solar collectors on a brick home above a backyard pool — Rooftop collectors on a classic brick home, sized to the pool below.

The Solar Pool Services branded service truck on a job site — On the job across Southern California — licensed, bonded, insured, local.

A commercial pool with an overhead solar collector canopy — A commercial pool warmed by an overhead solar collector canopy.

A slope-mounted solar collector array set into landscaped grounds — A slope-mounted array tucked into the landscaping.

A large ground-mounted solar collector array against the foothills — A ground-mounted array against the Southern California foothills.

Aerial view of a home's solar collectors, pool, and equipment — From above: collectors, pool, and equipment working as one system.

Solar pool heating collectors on a shingle roof above a backyard pool and raised spa — A 2011 install: collectors on the shingle, pool and raised spa below.

A kidney-shaped pool below a tile roof carrying both solar pool heating collectors and photovoltaic panels — Pool heating collectors sharing a tile roof with the home's PV array.

Overhead view of a pool with a diving board beside two ground-mounted solar collector arrays and the equipment pad between them — From straight up: pool, two ground-mount arrays, and the equipment pad tying them together.

A crew member working on the frame of a large ground-mounted solar collector array above a green valley — Building out a ground-mount frame above the valley.

Rows of black solar pool heating collectors mounted across a composition shingle roof — Rows of collectors on composition shingle, plumbed and strapped down.

Aerial view of a desert backyard with a freeform pool and a long ground-mounted solar collector rack along the fence line — No roof room? A ground-mount rack along the fence line does the same work.

A finished run of solar pool heating collectors on a tile roof with the header piping painted to match — Finished run on tile, with the header piping painted to match the roof.

Aerial view of a tile hip roof fully covered with solar pool heating collectors, with a service truck in the driveway below — Both slopes of a hip roof put to work — our truck still in the driveway.

A pool and round spa below a barrel tile roof carrying solar pool heating collectors and photovoltaic panels — A 2014 job: pool heating collectors and PV sharing a barrel tile roof.

Ground-mounted solar pool heating collectors beside a photovoltaic array, with snow-dusted foothills behind — A 2015 ground mount, with PV alongside and snow on the foothills behind.

A large ground-mounted solar collector array on a timber rack in the high desert, with a service truck parked alongside — A 2012 high-desert ground mount, built on a redwood rack.

Aerial view of a large tile-roof home with solar pool heating collectors across several roof planes above a freeform pool — A big roof, worked plane by plane, for the pool and waterfall below.

Four solar pool heating collectors on a tan tile roof with plumbing running down toward the gutter — A small tile-roof array, with the plumbing run kept tight to the downspout line.

Aerial view of a home with solar collectors on the roof and an additional ground-mounted rack beyond the fence, beside a rectangular pool — Roof array plus a ground-mount rack past the fence — whatever it takes to size the system right.

A large solar pool heating collector array across a low-slope roof beside a two-story home — A full array stretched across a low-slope roof, out of sight from the yard.

Black solar pool heating collectors on a flat low-slope roof with white PVC supply and return headers — A flat roof works too — collectors and headers laid out low and clean.

Solar pool heating collectors mounted on a white metal roof at a grove estate, with a crew member at the ridge — Even a metal roof is no obstacle — mounted low over the grove.

An open trench carrying white PVC solar plumbing between two homes, with a service truck on the lot — The part you never see: trenching the plumbing run out to the pad.

Two Solar Pool Services crew members in branded shirts working on a pool equipment pad — Our crew tying the system in at the equipment pad.

Close-up of gray PVC header plumbing with union couplers running from a solar collector across a shingle roof — Header plumbing run tight and square, with unions for easy service.

Copper header piping bridging a roof ridge to feed solar pool heating collectors on a shingle roof — Copper headers bent over the ridge — built to expand and last.

A gray PVC plumbing riser and roof run feeding solar pool heating collectors above a pool and spa — The run that carries pool water up to the roof and back.

Solar pool heating collectors on a steep two-story tile roof above a backyard pool with a rock waterfall — Two stories up, looking down over the pool and its waterfall.

A full solar pool heating array on a brown shingle roof overlooking agricultural hills — A big array up the shingle, with the whole valley behind it.

A large solar pool heating array on a shingle roof above a curved backyard pool — Collectors overhead, warm water below.

Four solar pool heating collectors on a shingle roof framed by tall Italian cypress trees — A tidy four-panel run, framed by the cypress.

A ground-mounted solar pool heating collector array on a low rack overlooking foothills and distant snow-capped mountains — No roof space needed — a ground-mount rack against the foothills.

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