What kind of vac do you use for you metal frame pool. We purchased the catfish 3 months ago and it has died already. Very disappointed for the price I paid for it. While it worked it was great.
Vacs for Above ground pool what do you have
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We have a v-trap but we just got it... haven't been able to try it out. Darn rainy weather!
I use the Intex vacuum that came with my pool when I need to do it quickly.
I use Hayward Critter -- Wanda the Whale when I can put her in for an hour or better yet, two hours.
I use Hayward Critter -- Wanda the Whale when I can put her in for an hour or better yet, two hours.
I just ordered a Aqua broom I hope it works we have about 2 more months of hot weather to swim.I don't want to invest to much we are hoping on moving next spring and looking for a house with a real pool.
I just got the kreepy krawly and am not happy with it at all, keeps coiling up and only cleans one side of the pool no matter what I do.
Hayward Bug here - her name is Rosie she is doing better with the leaf attachment - or maybe I think she's doing better since I can see what she's doing and if she has an air leak or not. She does a very good job but woe to anyone who does not get a good seal when putting together the pipes - then she doesn't work. With everything we have going on my time is limited so using a vacume that doesn't require me is great!
For spot cleans I use this http://www.intheswim.com/Pool-Equipment ... -Spot-Vac/
For spot cleans I use this http://www.intheswim.com/Pool-Equipment ... -Spot-Vac/
I also have a Hayward. Great cleaner, few issues in over seven years of abuse. My kids play with.
We purchased the Dirt Devil automatic (suction side) cleaner for our above ground Intex. I used this for over three years, and it does a pretty good job. It moves randomly across the pool floor but you can vary the pattern a bit by adding or subtracting one length of hose. I would put this in and let it go for a few hours maybe twice a week and i hardly ever had to manual Vac at all.
Note if your pool is very dirty you may need to clean the filter during the clean time as loss of suction will stop this thing dead. It only has one moving part, a weight that moves back and forth due to water flow and it scoots the cleaner around. I believe the wife found this for about $100.00 on sale and it did a good job for our AGP. It is now in another county still cleaning my previous pool for a new owner.
Note if your pool is very dirty you may need to clean the filter during the clean time as loss of suction will stop this thing dead. It only has one moving part, a weight that moves back and forth due to water flow and it scoots the cleaner around. I believe the wife found this for about $100.00 on sale and it did a good job for our AGP. It is now in another county still cleaning my previous pool for a new owner.
We love our Wanda Wonder Whale by Hayward. We used her on our first Intex Metal Frame pool, and upgraded to a Hayward 1 hp pump since the Intex pump was not powerful enough to run her. We also put in a through wall skimmer on our Ultra Frame pool. Can't figure out for the life of me why they put those silly skimmer baskets on those nice pools. She even gets the corners on our rectangular pool. One word of caution. Don't coil the hoses when you take her out of the pool for they will stay that way and get kinked. We made "saddles" like the ones folks have made for solar covers. They hold the hoses with out kinking them. We paid $99 for her last year on Amazon.
Let us know what you end up getting!
Cheers,
Liz
Let us know what you end up getting!
Cheers,
Liz
We use the "Kokido Zap Vac Automatic Pool Cleaner" and works pretty good. I use it about once every weekend.
http://www.namcopool.com/pool/pool-clea ... eaner.html
http://www.namcopool.com/pool/pool-clea ... eaner.html
Originally had an Aqua Bug...it didn't do a very good job. Next I bought a Lil Shark. It works well when I use the suction cleaner. I also bought a leaf trap to put inline with it. The beginning of last season, I bought a Pool Rover Jr. I Love the robot. It cleans so much better than the suction cleaner.
Little Shark and I LOVE it... had the Barracuda and Kreepy Krawley.
The shark has worked wonders for several years.
The shark has worked wonders for several years.
We are on our second year of using a Pool Rover Jr. Simply put, it is an awesome cleaner.
I am on my 5th or 6th year with the Pool Rover. I wouldn't have a pool without it..... :-D
I have a barracuda cleaner and it works well.
The key to suction side cleaners that have detachable section hoses is not to store them coiled up.
I take mine apart after every cleaning and store them in one of those plastic Christmas paper roll storage containers.
If you store the hose sections coiled up the cleaner will stay on one side of the pool from the Hose being coiled.
Learned this the hard way and had to buy all new hose sections.
The key to suction side cleaners that have detachable section hoses is not to store them coiled up.
I take mine apart after every cleaning and store them in one of those plastic Christmas paper roll storage containers.
If you store the hose sections coiled up the cleaner will stay on one side of the pool from the Hose being coiled.
Learned this the hard way and had to buy all new hose sections.
momto4monkeys said:
Lil Shark. Shortened the hose to avoid the stairs. Working great for this season. We shall see next year. Very little moving parts is what sold me.Less parts to wear out.
Sounds like this is not what you are looking for, but I keep it simple and just manually vacuum with a triangular vacuum head.
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