Swimming Pool Tips and Reviews

Poolman Tips and Tricks: In this video I give you some helpful tips for your swimming pool route to speed up your day and to make it easier. If you are a homeowner doing your own pool some of these tips will also come in handy. I cover a wide range of things in this video and I start with some helpful after market products that are designed to make pool care that much easier. These products are effective and proven to help keep a pool clean. I also show you a few tricks that will help keep your pump from being clogged by debris. I don't sell any of these products as I don't have a store front but I do have Amazon.com links so visit my website to order. http://www.swimmingpoollearning.com/ I briefly touch on automatic cleaners, but these are a great way to keep a pool clean week to week. I have reviewed extensively most automatic cleaners on the market today so feel free to contact me if you want to know more about a specific cleaner. I prefer suction side cleaners...

The Aquabot Rapids 1500 is the Next Generation of Robotic Cleaners for Aquabot. There are a lot of great innovations with the Rapids 1500 and I will go over them here in this article. The Rapids 1500 is a retail pool store cleaner only and is not sold online. The Rapids 1500 has many great features, the video will detail them all but I will list them here also for you. I will start with the Gyro Navigation System. This is a unique program that will allow the cleaner to stop and pivot, change direction and or reverse at times in the pool. The Gyro System will allow the Rapids 1500 to clean your pool in the most efficient pattern possible and it won't be covering the same areas over and over again. It is a really great innovative cleaning system. You can see it really at work in a couple of video clips that I filmed. It staggers a bit and then pivots, it is really innovative. The Rapids 1500 features two large scrub brushes on each end. Aquabot it one of the few co...

This is the Aquabot Turbo Classic Robotic Pool Cleaner. Also known as the Aquabot Turbo. This cleaner has been around for over a decade and it is an original classic. There are many newer models available now but the Turbo Classic is still a solid cleaner. It is an "Old School" design that simply works. The Turbo Classic is designed to clean the pool floors, walls and waterline. The pattern of the Aquabot Turbo Classic is what consumers like. Here is the pattern broken down for you: In the first six half laps the cleaner finds the wall, goes up the wall for 30 seconds, while at the waterline it will move laterally and then reverse to travel to the opposite wall. The cleaner will go up the opposite wall for 30 seconds and move laterally at the waterline and then reverses again. On the 7 th half lap the cleaner finds the wall, climbs it and moves laterally along the waterline for several minutes. So the Classic Turbo will spend a lot of time on the walls an...

In this article I go over the most energy efficient way to operate your pool and at the same time keeping it sparkling clean. If you want an energy efficient pool system it starts with a Variable Speed Pump. Adding a Robotic Pool Cleaner like the Polaris 9450 Sport just enhances your savings. Running a Variable Speed pump at a lower RPM and using a Robotic Cleaner to clean and circulate the pool water is the most energy efficient set-up for you pool. The idea for this video came from someone at Jandy who suggested I make a video showing how a robotic cleaner is the most inexpensive cleaner type to operate. So as a tip of my hat to Jandy, Polaris, Zodiac – whatever the company want to be known as – I filled this video chalk full of their products. I have plenty of them on my pool route so it was not a stretch. The numbers I state in the video are based on the rates that we pay here in Southern California – which I think are some of the highest in the Nation. We ar...

In this video I go over the Polaris 9450 Sport Robotic Pool Cleaner. The Polaris 9450 is a slight step down from the 9550 Sport but nonetheless it is a solid choice for a robotic pool cleaner. I will touch on some of the features of the Polaris 9450 Sport that you are sure to like. The first thing you will notice about this robotic cleaner is that it has an intelligent cleaning pattern which will leave your pool spotless. It features the ActivMotion Sensor which automatically controls the robot's position at all times and prevents any hangups in corners and step areas. It is designed to clean the pool floors, walls and waterline. The Polaris 9450 Sport features 4-wheel drive technology which gives the cleaner superior wall climbing ability. The scrub brushes on the front are well designed and it scrubs the pool surface very effectively removing dirt, algae and dust. The cleaner also has a large debris opening and features Vortex Vacuum Technology giving the clea...

This is the Power Vac Large Service Cart for the Power Vac PV2100, PV2200 and PV2500. The service cart is truly a thing of beauty. If you are thinking about getting a Power Vac for your pool route definitely get it with this cart. You will love it. Getting the PV2100 with the Large Service Cart is actually a good package deal. The PV2100 without the cart is around $1,000 and with it about $1,600. If you decide to purchase the cart later it sells for around $1,000 just by itself. So you get the cart along with the PV2100 for about half price. There are so many great details about the cart, I couldn't cover all of them in the video otherwise it would be too long. I will touch on each point here. The cart has a  powder coated aluminum frame that is welded so well that it feels like it was cut out as one solid piece. The welds are that good and that strong. The powder coating is so thick I doubt you will have to get it re-coated for years. It is a a solid piece of equipment m...

This is a brief look at the Pool Water Testing Products made by LaMotte. They are best known for their flagship product, the ColorQ Pro 7  Digital Photometer. But they also make electronic testers under the Tracer label as well as very good test strips. The ColorQ Pro 7 is a great test kit. It uses a photometer to get an exact digital reading on seven pool test factors. I really like this kit as it is accurate and easy to use. If you have trouble with color matching and want a spot on reading of your pool water - the ColorQ Pro 7 is a great investment. It is on the high end price side but well worth it. The ColorQ Pro7 is a very easy to use kit. Just add the drops of Reagent and stick the test tube in the ColorQ Photometer and it will give you a digital readout that is clear and spot on.  It comes in a really nice case and there are plenty of test tubes to do all the test factors at one time. Again, it is priced on the high end side because it is basically a digital te...

This is the Hayward Poolvergnuegen Lower Body Conversion Kit for the PoolCleaner Suction side automatic cleaner. There are two versions depending if you have the two or four wheel cleaner.  This is basically a Retrofit Kit to convert your existing PoolCleaner into the Next Generation version. The only online store I have found this at is PoolPlaza.com. I am not affiliated with them but for your convenience here are the links for each one: Poolvergnuegen Lower Body Conversion Kit, 2 Wheel Suction, White (PVGXH792KIT)   https://www.poolplaza.com/poolvergnuegen-lower-body-conversion-kit-2-wheel-suction-white-pvgxh792kit.html Poolvergnuegen Lower Body Conversion Kit, 4 Wheel Suction, White (PVGXH808KIT) https://www.poolplaza.com/poolvergnuegen-lower-body-conversion-kit-4-wheel-suction-white-pvgxh808kit.html If you are a pool service technician here is the Pool Corp part number for Superior or SCP: Manufacturer: HAYWARD POOL PRODUCTS INC Product Number: PVN-201-1...