PoolSkim is great!

[NWMNMom]

Oh good question. Our cover is on all the time too when not swimming and then when we pull it off, we spend time skimming before swimming. With the current great Junebug migration to my pool (they seem to crawl UNDER the edge of the cover and sit there) and the crap dropping from trees, it would be nice NOT to have to hand skim each time I take that cover off.

[AnnaK]

I first heard about the PoolSkim (http://www.thepoolskimmer.com/) on this forum when gwrace1 was talking about it. I am not affiliated with them at all.

No one else has mentioned it, so I thought I'd let everyone know that I purchased one and am blown away at how well it works.

I'm going to have to do a ME TOO post here! What a very cool device!

After reading about it here I spent some time pondering it, and then we had a pool party over the 4th of July with seven German Shepherds in the water for three days. The hair! Oh, the hair!!! We ran the pump 24/7, we cleaned the sock every 15 minutes, and in the mornings I scooped so much balled up dog hair off the bottom I could have built several more dogs.

Ordered it from In The Swim on Tuesday. It arrived this morning. I puzzled over the many elbow connectors for some time until I had it installed. Still have to cut the length of PVC pipe that came with it and put in the screws but it is in and it is working.

Wowser! I stood there smoking a stogie while I watched Japanese beetles flaoting clear from the other site of the pool inexorably toward the hat to get sucked into the bag.

As we used to say in my day: Like . . . groovy, man!

Question: once I get all the elbows and the height properly adjusted, is it ok to use PVC glue to hold them together? Or is it better to stick with the little screws in case I want to make directional adjustments?

Anna

[doggie]

Does anyone who has one use a solar cover? I simply want to know if it will damage the Pool Skim to have the solar cover pulled over it when the pool isn't in use.

[AnnaK]

From my very brief experience of just this afternoon, you can put a solar cover over it but you probably couldn't run your pump because I think a part of the cover would get sucked into the vortex.

However, you could cut a small 6 inch circle out of your cover to leave the PoolSkim uncovered. Then again, since the solar cover lies on the water, I don't know how effective the PoolSkim would be.

Love mine. Well, ok. Loved it, past tense, for about 30 seconds. That's how long it took one of the dogs to decide it was a fetch toy. He leaned over the edge to grab the hat, overbalanced, fell in. Fell on top of the device. BLAM! Pieces of PoolSkim everywhere. Ask me if I'm glad I didn't glue it all together.

No harm done. I fished the various elbows and such off the bottom and reconnected it. Next time the dog came near it I smacked him in the head. He hasn't looked at it since. And then I watched it suck dog hair off the surface. Really, too cool!

[hoffmans]

Smokin a stogie?!
Haven't had one a them in years............

~Hoffmans

[Sumo1]

I've considered the PoolSkim and also liked the look of the PoolDevil skimmer. Similar type of device. Has anyone out there tried the PoolDevil? It's only $30. See Pooldevil.com
Hal

[Tredge]

It doesnt affect the poolskim at all to just cover right over it. It does pull on the solar cover but very lightly and does no damage to either cover or skim.

The nature of how the pool-skim works there isnt anything to break or "hurt" by blocking it. The water just shoots out the bag as normal.

Funny story about the dog

[mshumack]

I read the great reviews and decided to take the plunge but all the websites advertizing the PoolSkim no longer have any to sell.

[Tredge]

Ya you need to order directly from them. Its weird that such a popular product isnt better distributed but I got through immediately and they were very easy to order from.


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