Hello!
I want to start by saying we received a whole bunch of "junk" with our pool when we purchased it, with absolutely NO instructions or training. One of these items was an automatic poolboy pool cleaner. We tried it and it irritated me by how slow it "thump thump thump thumped" around....soooo we threw it away :grrrr:
Since then I just take the hose, remove the skimmer basket, stick the hose down the skimmer pipe, and use the other end of the hose (just the hose, no attachments) to manually vacuum anything up. My husband helps hold me under water and I swim around vacuuming up anything I see. It's about a 2+ hour ordeal. I enjoy it, but my husband gets very bored just standing there. When I was pregnant last year, we invested in the robot, as my buoyancy significantly increased lol. The dolphin S50 (I believe) works fairly well...it just again irritates me when it tries to climb nothing in the middle of the pool and seems to miss some spots. So again, I go through and manually vacuum with the hose under water. Don't get me wrong, it works well, and my pool is very clean, but recently I discovered there are some great contraptions to clean the pool using a pole and even some that have a bag to filter whatever we pick up instead of directly depositing it into our cartridge filter. I'm very impressed with the weighted pool vacuum heads with wheels on them, but everything I read says they are only for concrete pools.
Does anyone have any "manual vacuum's" for an AG vinyl lined pool that they would recommend?
I would prefer the following:
It would simultaneously brush the bottom of the pool while vacuuming (this would be nice, but not 100% necessary)
It could be moved around by a pole from inside the pool (we do not have a deck and I am 5'0" tall making using a pool from outside the pool nearly impossible)
It is weighted, yet easy to move around (like the ones with wheels made for the concrete pools)
It preferably had a filtration bag so everything does not go straight into the filter.
I have looked on Amazon and the forums and I have not found any that seem to have even semi decent reviews. Recommendations would be appreciated.
And one more question, those with cartridge filters, how often do you clean them? I have read to clean when pressure increases, but we've had ours for 3 seasons now and have never seen more than 1-2psi increase even when it's filthy (our first year we didn't clean it the entire season...again, we were clueless!). Currently we are cleaning it about every 2-3 weeks with the pressure washer (not recommended, I know, but we're on our 3rd season with it and it seems to be doing ok...). We soaking the cartridge it in TSP overnight about once a month. Are we cleaning it too often, not enough or just keep doing what we're doing?
Thank you and I hope everyone is having a great swimming year!
I want to start by saying we received a whole bunch of "junk" with our pool when we purchased it, with absolutely NO instructions or training. One of these items was an automatic poolboy pool cleaner. We tried it and it irritated me by how slow it "thump thump thump thumped" around....soooo we threw it away :grrrr:
Since then I just take the hose, remove the skimmer basket, stick the hose down the skimmer pipe, and use the other end of the hose (just the hose, no attachments) to manually vacuum anything up. My husband helps hold me under water and I swim around vacuuming up anything I see. It's about a 2+ hour ordeal. I enjoy it, but my husband gets very bored just standing there. When I was pregnant last year, we invested in the robot, as my buoyancy significantly increased lol. The dolphin S50 (I believe) works fairly well...it just again irritates me when it tries to climb nothing in the middle of the pool and seems to miss some spots. So again, I go through and manually vacuum with the hose under water. Don't get me wrong, it works well, and my pool is very clean, but recently I discovered there are some great contraptions to clean the pool using a pole and even some that have a bag to filter whatever we pick up instead of directly depositing it into our cartridge filter. I'm very impressed with the weighted pool vacuum heads with wheels on them, but everything I read says they are only for concrete pools.
Does anyone have any "manual vacuum's" for an AG vinyl lined pool that they would recommend?
I would prefer the following:
It would simultaneously brush the bottom of the pool while vacuuming (this would be nice, but not 100% necessary)
It could be moved around by a pole from inside the pool (we do not have a deck and I am 5'0" tall making using a pool from outside the pool nearly impossible)
It is weighted, yet easy to move around (like the ones with wheels made for the concrete pools)
It preferably had a filtration bag so everything does not go straight into the filter.
I have looked on Amazon and the forums and I have not found any that seem to have even semi decent reviews. Recommendations would be appreciated.
And one more question, those with cartridge filters, how often do you clean them? I have read to clean when pressure increases, but we've had ours for 3 seasons now and have never seen more than 1-2psi increase even when it's filthy (our first year we didn't clean it the entire season...again, we were clueless!). Currently we are cleaning it about every 2-3 weeks with the pressure washer (not recommended, I know, but we're on our 3rd season with it and it seems to be doing ok...). We soaking the cartridge it in TSP overnight about once a month. Are we cleaning it too often, not enough or just keep doing what we're doing?
Thank you and I hope everyone is having a great swimming year!