Hi:
I'm a pool novice. My mom's pool gets tons of pine needles and other brush from neighbor's trees - can't do anything about them (neighbors have been uncooperative). When my dad was alive, he'd go out every day and pull 6 or 7 full handfuls of pine needles and other leaves out of the "collector", or whatever the part where the filter inlet (suction) is called. Surface velocity causes all the leaves to float towards the inlet. But during the winter, the pool gets enough leaves to fill one or two grocery sacks every day.
I've seen some ads for some cheap pool cleaners that have a "sock" and float on the surface, using venturi action to get leaves to flow into the sock. But these socks seem small and would fill up too quickly. My mom can't bend down to change socks or remove leaves from the pool - or use a skimmer.
Do any of the robotic pool cleaners handle a high volume of surface leaves? I don't know much about any of them, but it seems to me that a machine crawling along the bottom of a pool wouldn't catch much of the surface leaves.
Any advice, anyone?
Thx
Ron
I'm a pool novice. My mom's pool gets tons of pine needles and other brush from neighbor's trees - can't do anything about them (neighbors have been uncooperative). When my dad was alive, he'd go out every day and pull 6 or 7 full handfuls of pine needles and other leaves out of the "collector", or whatever the part where the filter inlet (suction) is called. Surface velocity causes all the leaves to float towards the inlet. But during the winter, the pool gets enough leaves to fill one or two grocery sacks every day.
I've seen some ads for some cheap pool cleaners that have a "sock" and float on the surface, using venturi action to get leaves to flow into the sock. But these socks seem small and would fill up too quickly. My mom can't bend down to change socks or remove leaves from the pool - or use a skimmer.
Do any of the robotic pool cleaners handle a high volume of surface leaves? I don't know much about any of them, but it seems to me that a machine crawling along the bottom of a pool wouldn't catch much of the surface leaves.
Any advice, anyone?
Thx
Ron