Quote Originally Posted by CanuckPool View Post
Hey Carl, you have a robotic cleaner and still vacumn and brush, well its just like an SWG... it produces chlorine but we still have to balance our water just like everyone else. But doesnt having a robotic cleaner make your pool maintenece life much easier... or you could have saved the $1000 on the robot and just hand vacumned exclusively. Wouldn't you consider that a luxury?
I don't see the connection. I don't vacuum and brush--the robot does it. Vacuuming and brushing are at least an hour long job, every week, that is just plain hard work that, unless I want a work-out, I could do without (especially brushing). Besides, the robot not only does a better job, it acts like a super-filter, turning over the pool in 3-4 hours with DE level filtering.

The robot saves me lots of hard, sweaty work. An SWG would save me a few minutes of easy work a week.

THAT is the difference--saving me from a job I dislike versus saving me from a job I don't mind.

I KEEP saying this: There is nothing wrong with having an SWG if you want one. It's YOUR choice on what is a pain-in-the-neck job and what isn't. It's YOUR cost-benefit analysis.

And I can tell you: If I had to choose between a robotic cleaner and an SWG, then hands-down I'd take the cleaner.