Best Pool Cleaner for curved side walls

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thadius65

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Jul 30, 2011
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Bloomsburg, PA
I am nearing time to replace my second Blue Diamond pool robot. This has the foam rollers vs the paddle type. Prior to finding my second one, I tried a Dolphin S300, and had a terrible time getting my sides clean. I have a mountain pond-shaped pool with a vinyl liner, with curved soft-pack sides. With the S300, it seemed to skip around, leaving marks like dots and dashes. Now that the Blue Diamond (WaterTech) is long gone, I need something for my pool. Any tips? Seems the entire dolphin line has same tank tracks and paddle rollers. Thanks!
 
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65,

I'm not sure I completely follow... What is on your walls that makes it possible to 'see' where your robot has been??

Walls do not tend to collect dust or debris like your floor might.

Do you have algae?

There really should not be anything on your pool walls that you can see.

Thanks,

Jim R.
 
Jimrahbe said:
65,

I'm not sure I completely follow... What is on your walls that makes it possible to 'see' where your robot has been??

Walls do not tend to collect dust or debris like your floor might.

Do you have algae?

There really should not be anything on your pool walls that you can see.

Thanks,

Jim R.
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When I open it, or with pollen, or if I have been gone for a week or so, I will have some silt on the vinyl. I also have cantilever concrete coping that overhangs the pool, and the salt does tend to bring some of that into the pool. But regardless of how it gets there, the S300 would not consistently clean it. You would see the line of its path, and it would be *** * *** * * ***. Like the brushes/vacuum were not able to maintain suction or contact. My old Blue Diamond (slowly dying) does not have this cleaning issue with the curved sides.
 
65,

I have shifted away from the Dolphin cleaners and moved to the EVO... See this review...

New EVO 614i Robot Pool Cleaner Review

About a month ago I needed a new robot pool cleaner and I contacted Margaret at Marina Pool and Spa. My initial goal was to buy another S200 "style" robot as I have been happy with them so far. Margaret suggested that I might want to look at a new line of robot cleaners that Marina is now...
www.google.com www.google.com

It works great for me, but I have not seen the problem you are seeing.. So, I have no clue if it would clean as well as "Old Blue"... :mrgreen:

The problem is that no one knows how well a cleaner is going to work, until after they buy it... :(

Maybe one of the local stores has a try before your buy loaner... :scratch:

Thanks,

Jim R.
 
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