This Gold Medal Installation is at the beautiful Rosarita Beach Hotel in Baja, Mexico. Rosarita Beach is located just south of Tijuana, on the Pacific Ocean, where they get a great deal of sun all year. Despite the gorgeous weather and ideal conditions for the hotel, its 3200 sq. ft. pool never got over 78°F, especially since their boilers broke down several years ago. The pool was always a brisk swim when their guests were brave enough to take a dip.
Aquatherm Industries Master Dealer, Mark Naylor Solar Specialists of San Diego, California came to the hotel’s rescue. Mark Naylor has been a Master Dealer since 1995 and this is the first “outside the U.S.” pool he has heated. He found the experience to be unique only because of the border issues. “It was just like installing a solar heating system on a pool in Southern California except trying to get the collectors across the border”. That feat, getting the collectors across the border, took days longer that the installation. His crew installed the Solar Industries Solar Pool Heating System in six hours. While they broke for a late lunch after completing the project, the pool temperature rose from 74° to 78°F. The hotel owners were very pleased because the pool has never seen that temperature in recent memory, and certainly not without the help of expensive oil to fuel the boilers. The owners of the hotel are very proud of their decision to use solar to heat their pool – you’ll notice the owners had Mark Naylor install the system in plain sight of the hotel guests.