The invention of automatic pool cleaners was one of the most important inventions for swimming pools in the last few decades. It gave rise to a situation where pool owners didn’t have to worry so much about their tedious pool cleaning exercise. If you own a swimming pool, you already know that the best thing about owning a swimming pool is always having it clean and clear all the time. If you had a swimming pool that hard green algae all around the wall, I’m sure that nobody would want to jump into. Not even you the owner. Now if cleaning a pool is so important, one would naturally believe or rather think that every pool owner would love to do it. But the truth is that it is what pool owners hate to do most. Why? Because it is extremely tedious and stressful. In fact if you had the chance, trust me you would avoid it all together. This situation however was the case some 5 decades or so ago until Kreepy Krauly made it into the world of pool cleaning.
However with the advent of the most recent type of cleaners, I.e. the robotic pool cleaners, pool cleaning exercise this days have become a case of plug and play. That is why most pool owners today use these automatic pool cleaners to clean there pools. In fact these days, it is included as part of the construction and design of a standard swimming pool. The most important thing is that they are by far more efficient than the manual form of pool cleaning and save you a hell lot of precious time and money you would have spent in calling in pool cleaning service.
There are three main types of pool cleaners. They are classified based on the drive mechanism used by each and every one of them. And another thing is that pools these days are designed to allow the use of a specific kind of automatic pool cleaners in the cleaning process. So that is why this article is very important for you in order for you to be able to distinguish the different types of cleaners and know which type will serve your purpose based on the design structure of your pool, the volume, dimension and a lot of other different facts.
Here are three main type’s of pool cleaners:
Return Water Flow Back to Pool:
These type of pool cleaners make use of a dive that makes use of the venturi principle( basic principle employed in hydraulics). With the aid of this principle, the pool cleaner is driven and in the process creates a vacuum that captures debris as it moves along. After the debris is captured, it sends them to the pool filter. These class of pool cleaners are of old and no longer very fashionable this days as most people are switching to the more modern suction or pressure driven types.
Pressure Driven:
in this type of pool cleaners make use of two motor pumps and a secondary pump. The secondary pump pressurizes the water flowing back to the pool through a dedicated plumbing line. This therefore enhances the venturi effect making the pool cleaner to move and work faster collecting more debris in the process and sending them to its own collecting bag, net or screen. This makes it possible for the device to perform more run cyles between the collecting bags and the pool’s main filters.
Suction Side Driven:
Here, the cleaning effects of the cleaner is powered by a mechanism that draws water through the cleaner while sucking the debris at the same time. Based on the working principle, water is being drawn from the pool from a dedicated plumbing line connected to the suction side of the pool’s recirculating pump.
Finally there is the most modern type: that is the robotic pool cleaners.
Now that you know the three different types, the question that may be going through your mind is “which cleaner is the best among the three?” “which of them should I buy to offer me the best utility and value for my money?” while this questions are valid, only you can answer them because none of them is better than the other. The one that should be best for you depends totally on a number of factors out of which includes the particular design of your pool, the plumbing configuration, the shape of the pool, the depth, etc. and the environment in which the pool is located: presence of flower bearing trees, presence of silt or clay within the locality, heavy foliage in the area etc. Fixtures such as I.E ladders, steps, handrails and the construction style of the pool all have effect on the performance of the pool cleaners and as such will play a major role in influencing your buying decision.