Hello - introducing my pool & asking a question

[SASHI]

Hi everyone! I appreciate any information you can provide as you all seem so knowledgeable. My "new-to-me" pool is a concrete 21,000 gallon pool with a fairly new Hayward pump, filter and a a not as new booster pump for vacuum.

I'm trying to find a pool vacuum that will hook up to my booster pump that will move around the 90 degree angle walls/floors that i have. all 4 sides of my pool are 90 degree angles and according to my hired pool man he installed a Polaris 3900 and then it did not do anything once it hit a wall because it could not backup or move up the wall. I need to find a viable solution to vacuuming the pool than manually. I love doing it but i have a lot going on and can't afford to take the time at this point in my life. Any idea what pool vacuum (automatic or pump driven) would work with the 90 degree angles? Is my pool guy lying?

Thank you in advance!

[aylad]

Hi, and welcome to the forum!!

The walls in the shallow end of my pool are also 90 degree walls, and my Polaris 380 climbs them with no problem....

Maybe your pool guy just hasn't tried any of the units that would actually work for your pool and doesn't know any better. :)

[SASHI]

Thank you so much aylad! I'm very perturbed with my pool guys unwillingness to help further. I've inquired at a few pool stores but after his experience with the 3900 I'm afraid to buy and then not be
Able to return it. He told me he got lucky and the vendor let him return the 3900.

[SASHI]

Are there any other options besides the Polaris 380 suggestion?

[SASHI]

hi Aylad- I noticed here you wrote 90 degree walls. Do you have 90 degree angles between the floor and the wall? There is no curve/slope from the floor to the wall on my pool and i was told the polaris 3900 couldn't even get up the wall.

[aylad]

My pool is hopper-shaped, so I have a slight slope from floor up the wall in the deep end, but the angle between floor and wall in my shallow end is 90 degrees.The sloping walls don't start until the drop-off to the deep end.

Janet

[SASHI]

Thanks Janet! And your polaris 380 climbs the shallow end 90 degree angle walls just fine?

[aylad]

Yep, it climbs to the waterline, turns around, and runs back down. The only time it has problems is when the bag is full--guess it's too much weight--or when the water temp is below about 70 degrees. (It doesn't like cold water at all!).

Janet

[PoolDoc]

If you really have 90 degree turns, with no radius, I'd STRONGLY recommend calling the support department of whatever unit you think you'll get, and verify with them that the unit will work under those conditions.

I suspect a lot of cleaners might have problems with a 90 degree transition from, say, a concrete floor to a vertical block wall, especially if you also have 90 corners.