AGP Vacuum Suggestion

[kevincad]

I have a Polaris 65 and I don't think it does that great of a job. It floats on top of the water with a tail that swooshes around the pool floor and the movement aims debris into a filter bag at the end of the tail. It does do a pretty good job of picking up leaves, twigs, and other larger debris, but it does not do a good job of getting dust which is what I need it for 95% of the time. The movement of the tail just stirs the dust up and it then resettles back to the floor. Really the only time I use it is maybe upon opening if I have a lot of leaves or debris from flowering trees in the pool. The rest of the time, I just use the manual vacuum cleaner which does a much better job. Just my $0.02. I'm sure their are other people who love their Polaris 65 for their AG pool, but for me, I'm not impressed.

BTW -- I do add the cotton balls to the filter bag and it does help it catch some, but not enough.

I use my Polaris alot when I want to keep the water stirred up for a few days to let the filter take care of the dust.

[tara15]

I have a large tree overhead that drops leaves and mullberries. Do you think the pool skim would work for that? I have to vacuum every single day and I get about 2 basket loads of berries. We also get TONS of bugs and its annoying when trying to swim with the baby.