- Mar 5, 2017
- 603
- Pool Size
- 17000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-9)
Thank you, KD! How deep is your pool? One PB encouraged me to do a hybrid - some IFC complimented by robot for “less money”. Interesting concept.
We’d have a large sun deck on one end that would likely need to be brushed by me or vacuumed by robot. Does IFC really work on sun decks and stairs? The rest is spa, and a smaller single bench in the deep-end. I’m guessing that the debris I would see most often in the pool might be flakes of mulch. However, most all of the mulch would be behind the wall.
My pool is 3.5’ shallow, 6’ deep end. I have a 5 bank IFC, Feeding 9 outlets, one of those being just a regular supply into the spa, each pool bank feeding 2 floor “sprinkler-style” heads. I resurfaced the pool last year and added a shelf, and did not move any plumbing so the new shelf and steps don’t get IFC help. Again, price no object you can add IFC heads anywhere, advisable on the shelf and steps-this are the areas where the kicked up sediment from the floor tends to land and I have to brush off every week or so.
I’d purchase a robot (Dolphin S300+), but really it wouldn’t help reach the shelf or steps much and when your IFC works well, & you clean your filter out every 6 months, I don’t see the need. I do manually vacuum 3x/year, but that’s it!