Owning a pool is one way of making your friends adore you more, especially during summer. But this prestige comes with a lot of responsibilities—top among them is pool maintenance. A pool that’s not well maintained or neglected will quickly turn to a ‘frog pond’ with built-up algae, funny solid debris, mosquito nets, and other aesthetic and health issues.
As the pool owner, you can always perform pool maintenance on your own. However, you may not have all the time as the process tend to be time-consuming. Luckily, there are a wide range of self-cleaning pools that can save you from the hassle of pool maintenance, allowing you to enjoy your pool with your friend the way you’re meant to.
How Are Self-Cleaning Pools Different From Regular Pools?
Regular pools are built with one common technology: the ‘eyeball and skimmer’ system. With this technology, the entire water content of the pool should be circulated at least once in a 24-hour period to ensure that the chemicals (that you add) are mixed adequately, making it hard for bacteria to grow. The problem with such a system is that it only pushes water across the top of the pool skimmer. In other words, it only covers or reaches the top half of the pool water.
On the contrary, pools that clean themselves have in-floor nozzles that push water around the pool in a circular manner ensuring that water in your pool is constantly moving. This means that water from the top of your pool is evenly circulated to the bottom and vice versa. Such even circulations not only kills bacteria everywhere in the pool but also get rid of annoying cold spots in your pool.
Put simply, self-cleaning pools are the most hands-free pools you can own today. All you are required to do when it comes to maintaining the pool is to empty your leaf baskets—no heavy robots, creepy crawlies, or other cleaning equipment are required.
Types of Self-Cleaning Pools
There are two main types of self-cleaning pool systems that you will find in the market today:
• Robot Cleaners: These intelligently maps out your pools floor and systemically scrubs and cleans it away
• Pressure Cleaners: Are great in leafy areas and have booster pump which work in conjunction with your pool’s filtration system to collect large leafy items and improve overall circulation.
Many homeowners tend to get confused when it comes to the type of pool cleaning systems that they should install. If you want a pool that won’t take lots of your time cleaning, self-cleaning pools are the best bet. Pools that clean themselves boasts of increased water circulation, increased heating efficiency, lower chemical usage, and are always clean and ready for swimming.
