Finally solved my pool hose tangling problem

[m5news]

I've had multiple pools in the past and never had a problem with my pool cleaner hose tangling. We built a new pool at our new house in early 2022, and I couldn't keep the hose from tangling. It's a fairly large rectangular pool with a Polaris Quattro Sport cleaner. I tried all of the solutions I saw in other blogs - change the hose swivels, lay the hose in the sun to straighten it, adjusting float spacing, etc. Nothing worked. After sitting on my porch and watching for a couple of hours I figured out the problem(s). First, too much of the hose length was floating on the surface of the pool, exposing most of the hose length to looping over itself on the pool surface. To solve this, I removed all but one float from the segment of the hose between the cleaner and the first swiveled junction. That one float keeps the deepest part of the hose partially floating (so it can't lay on the bottom of the pool and get run over by the cleaner), but does not give enough buoyancy to bring it all the way to the surface. This keeps about a third of the pool hose off of the surface of the pool and out of the way of the rest of the hose that is on the surface. Second, I recognized that the hose was 2-3' longer than it needed to be to reach the furthest point of the pool. I cut segments out of the middle of the hose (in the vicinity of where the loops occurred that led to the tangling). Since doing both of these adjustments, I've pretty much eliminated the tangling problem, such that I generally haven't had to pull the hose straight every night to let the cleaner do it's thing the next day. Anyway, hope this helps somebody who was frustrated by the same thing I was but wasn't having any success with the commonly posted solutions. Good luck!

 

[HermanTX]

Thanks. the hose length (being too long) is very importaunt to address. I like the idea of removing some floats as they tend to cause issues as you stated.