The Best Choice to Select an Automatic Pool Cleaner

The maintenance of a swimming pool is essential to ensure its perfect hygiene and to make sure to bathe in clean and healthy water. Besides the filtration of its water, the deep cleaning of a swimming pool is necessary.

The Best Choice to Select an Automatic Pool Cleaner

Only a pool robot is capable of performing such maintenance both on the bottom of the pool and on its walls. The pool robot is also a good ally: it works on its own and thus avoids the chore of swimming pool owners. For the automatic pool cleaner for above ground pools, this is important.

What is the purpose of a pool robot?

Unlike manual cleaning with a landing net, with a pool broom or vacuum cleaner, the pool robot allows deep cleaning of both the bottom of the pool and its walls. It guarantees that you can bathe in clean water, free of even the smallest dirt such as leaves, insects, dust, pollens, etc. 

The other advantage of the pool robot is that it is semi-automatic or automatic: as it works for you, it saves you time and fatigue. Finally, using a pool robot is the assurance of the best maintenance of your pool and therefore the guarantee of its longest longevity for those who Own The Pool.

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How does a pool robot work?

A pool robot sucks up or takes off the dirt present at the bottom of your pool or on its walls and stores it in its filter, then goes underwater to get rid of its dirt, or sends it to the independent filter of the pool. Some pool robot models also clean the steps of your pool stairs and its water line, that is to say the place that materializes the water level, where dirt, grease, algae or lime scale tend to settle.

The different models of pool robot

There are three main types of pool robots. The electric swimming pool robot (or autonomous robot), the hydraulic pressure swimming pool robot (overpressure robot, booster robot or pulsating robot) and the hydraulic suction robot (vacuum cleaner brush or pool vacuum cleaner).

The electric pool robot

The electric pool robot is the most efficient, but also the most expensive. Not only does it suck up the dirt present in the water, but it also brushes the bottom and, for some, the walls of the pool. Just plug the electric pool robot into an outlet and it does this deep cleaning on its own. Some operate on a battery. Some models of electric pool robots allow you to clean the steps of the pool and are equipped to also wash its corners. The electric pool robot has the advantage of being very fast too.

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The hydraulic pressure swimming pool robot

The hydraulic swimming pool robot is directly connected to the filtration system of the swimming pool and it is generally connected to a pump called a booster which has the function of sending pressurized water which removes impurities. The dirt is then sent to the filtration system of the pool or the robot if it has its own filters. The hydraulic pressure pool robot is one of the most efficient and robust pool robots.

The hydraulic suction pool robot

The hydraulic suction pool robot is the simplest model. Its cleaning quality is average and it is quite slow, but it is the most economical of pool robots. It cleans the bottom of the pool but on the other hand, not its walls. It is connected to the swimming pool filtration system via its broom outlet or its skimmer. The hydraulic suction pool robot sucks up the dirt to reject it towards the filter of your pool.