Choosing The Right Pool Cleaner

The key to maintaining the longevity of your pool is to keep it clean. The pool’s water has to be chlorinated, and the structure of the pool’s wall, ports, and filters have to be maintained. And while maintenance is relatively affordable, it takes some work.

One of the most critical decisions you need to make is hiring the right pool cleaner—one that fits your budget and gives you the most bang for your buck. Here’s a guide that will help you make an informed decision:

Robotic Cleaners

If you’re looking for a hassle-free, self-driven solution, this one’s for you. Requiring no supervision, this bad boy can go around the pool, clearing all the debris. Steps, walls, curves—it can maneuver itself around the place and clean out medium-sized bits of junk all on its own.

And you don’t have to come back to turn it off when it’s done with work, as it shuts itself off when it determines that the pool is clean enough. Westworld may not be such a distant future, after all.

However, this is an expensive option, and the range of the cleaner may be limited due to the short cable length.

Suction Cleaners

Using your pool’s filtration system, suction cleaners pull away gunk and debris from your pool and filter it out using the pool’s skimmer. Because it uses the pool’s suction rather than a motor like a robotic cleaner does, it doesn’t hike up your bills much.

You’ll have to operate it each time to do the cleaning job, and if you don’t have multiple skimmers in the pool, the process will be slower.

Pressure Side Cleaner

Pressure side cleaners lie in between suction cleaners and robotic cleaners in terms of price. Some models require plumbing, but most have built-in filters, which is good for your pool filter’s longevity.

Some models rely on the pool’s water return port, but those lack automation and have to be turned off when they’re done working manually.

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