Usually I love this time of year as the leaves explode with color, but then we moved to a house with a pool...and the pool is next to a heavily wooded area with lots of hardwood trees. 
The leaves have started dropping and they're taking over my pool. We moved into this house in February, I opened the pool myself and it's been perfect using TFPC, and I'm about to close it soon. I figured I'd go at least one season just pulling leaves (and the local wildlife) out of the pool with the net and using a manual vacuum as necessary, and it's been fine.
Now I'm curious about a robot for use in the future. Are there any good robots out there that can handle a lot of leaves? Everything from large oak leaves to smaller leaves (maybe hickory?). We also get plenty of bugs on the side of the pool with the trees (mostly spiders and beetles) and the occasional larger critter (so far this year it's been a few mice, one large rat, a very small snake, a bird, and a bird's nest).
It's a vinyl pool, grecian shape, about 18x36, 8ft deep end and a sort of beveled bottom. 1 main drain, 3 returns, 2 skimmers. Steps covered in vinyl. Liner is about 10 years old and has some wrinkles near the main drain, some wrinkles on the edges of the steps, and a few 'lips'/wrinkles spread out here and there. I've included a few photos from earlier this season since a picture is worth a thousand words.
Deep end:
Steps, and trees in the background...
Before opening in April of this year, and before I installed a fence:
The leaves have started dropping and they're taking over my pool. We moved into this house in February, I opened the pool myself and it's been perfect using TFPC, and I'm about to close it soon. I figured I'd go at least one season just pulling leaves (and the local wildlife
) out of the pool with the net and using a manual vacuum as necessary, and it's been fine.Now I'm curious about a robot for use in the future. Are there any good robots out there that can handle a lot of leaves? Everything from large oak leaves to smaller leaves (maybe hickory?). We also get plenty of bugs on the side of the pool with the trees (mostly spiders and beetles) and the occasional larger critter (so far this year it's been a few mice, one large rat, a very small snake, a bird, and a bird's nest).
It's a vinyl pool, grecian shape, about 18x36, 8ft deep end and a sort of beveled bottom. 1 main drain, 3 returns, 2 skimmers. Steps covered in vinyl. Liner is about 10 years old and has some wrinkles near the main drain, some wrinkles on the edges of the steps, and a few 'lips'/wrinkles spread out here and there. I've included a few photos from earlier this season since a picture is worth a thousand words.
Deep end:
Steps, and trees in the background...
Before opening in April of this year, and before I installed a fence:
