Cape Coral Vacation Rentals - Tips on choosing your pool home
Many Cape Coral vacation rentals have a private swimming pool for your exclusive use during your stay. Before you book, make sure you find out the amount of sun you can expect and how the water temperature is maintained. Additionally, if you are traveling with children, you should find out what safety features are in place. SUN To get the most enjoyment out of any Cape Coral vacation rental pool, it should face west or south. This provides maximum sun exposure during the day which is what most vacationers want. However, if you want a shady pool, choose a Cape Coral rental where the pool faces east or north. POOL HEATERS During the winter months of November to April the swimming pools in Cape Coral lose their heat during the cooler nights and can become quite chilly. To compensate for this, choose a vacation home with a heated pool and be sure to put the thermal covering on each night. Electric or solar heaters can adequately maintain the pool temperatures – but you need to investigate a little bit before booking a house with solar heat.
You can easily determine if the surface area of the pool and panels is equal for yourself by looking up the property on www.leepa.org and selecting "aerial view". If the panels on the roof cover roughly as much area as the pool, like at Villa Tiffany, the Cape Coral rental pictured above, the heater will be as effective as electric. If, however, the panels cover less surface area than the pool, it will not be as effective as electric - choose that home for a summer rental and go elsewhere in the winter.
SAFETY
If you are traveling with children, pool safety is an important consideration. As an ER nurse, this is a big deal to me! Choose a Cape Coral vacation rental with either a safety gate around the pool, child safety locks on the doors to the pool area or an alarm systems that sounds when an exterior/pool door is opened. While parental vigilance cannot be replaced, you do not want to spend your vacation in a state of paranoia because your children love the pool in your back yard! Make sure the home you rent has one of these aids - to help you maintain your sanity AND your child’s safety.
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According to swimming pool experts, solar heated pools can be effective IF the surface area of the solar panels is equal to the surface area of the pool. The problem arises because many builders of Cape Coral property offered solar heated pools as a free add-on to their homes but placed insufficient panels to adequately heat the pool.
