What are pool cleaners?

An Automated Pool Cleaner is an vacuum cleaner intended to collect debris and sediment from swimming pools with minimum human intervention. Pools using such a cleaner on a routine basis are not only visually cleaner but also using less chemicals which means lower operating costs. Not too many years ago cleaning the pool was either [...]

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Pool Equipment and Safety Tools Reviewed

If you are a swimming pool owner or if you are interested in becoming one, it is important to familiarize yourself with pool safety tools and equipment pieces.  Although law may not require these items, they are always recommended.  One of the most important pieces of pool safety equipment that you could ever invest in [...]

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Portable Pool Vacuums

Portable pool vacuum cleaners come to a variety of designs. In the last few years these devices have seen a large number of inventions, resulting in diverse cleaning mechanisms but all normally individually electrically powered and cleans by suction, or “dumb” (and powerless and are connected to the pool’s filter line). We are told by [...]

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The Aqua Vac Eliminates the Need to Prime

The Aqua Vac Manual is excellent for quick spot vacuuming without closing down the entire pool. The efficient self-contained motor eliminates the need to prime traditional vacuum hoses and the priming, starting and maintenance problems associated with other vacuums.[1] [2] The Aqua Vac 2 Commercial operates on a 12 volt marine battery with a pressurized [...]

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The Aqua Vac Battery Powered Portable Pool Cleaner

The Aqua Vac 2 Commercial operates on a 12 volt marine battery with a pressurized motor that can clean 16,000 gallons per hour. The complete unit comes on its own caddy cart and can be stored in a small area, and is design to fit through doorways and roll up stairs.[1] The Aqua Vac Manual [...]

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How to Clean Pools: Above Ground Types

Cleaning Options for Above Ground Pools by Alex Fir No matter how much debris you have in your backyard, your pool must be cleaned. You just may have to clean it more often than others. Whether you clean your aboveground pool frequently or whenever it needs it, you must get pool cleaning supplies. Pool cleaning [...]

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Swimming Pool Maintenance

Swimming Pool Maintenance by Malcom Smith There are numerous benefits to owning an automatic pool cleaner. In order to understand those benefits, you should first learn about automatic pool cleaners and how they work. As with many other pool accessories, you will find that automatic pool cleaners come in a wide variety of different makes [...]

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Pool Equipment: Choosing an Automatic Swimming Pool Cleaner

Tip! Robotic pool cleaners save a great deal of money in operating costs, because these pool cleaners do not require your pool pump and filtration system to be running for the pool cleaner to work. This also means you do not have to clean your filtration system after each use, using more electricity and losing [...]

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Selecting the Right Automatic Pool Cleaner for You

Choosing an Automatic Pool Cleaner 101 by Fielding Poisson. The two types of pool cleaners: Pressure and Suction. Pressure side cleaners are the leaf and acorn kings. The pressure side cleaners are plugged into the inside pool wall and operate off of clean, filtered water returning back to the pool. The way most of these [...]

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Hello Pool Owners – Looking for easy maintenance ideas?

H! This is our first post. The Summer is coming and we are ready to help our readers maximise their enjoyment of their home pools. Get out there and enjoy the sun – don’t slave away manually cleaning your pool we have the answers. Automatic pool vacuums are great and they get better and cheaper [...]

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