Floating surface skimmer or manual surface vacuum?

[AUSpool]

Does anyone have any experience with floating surface skimmers? A Gator inline leaf skimmer, a Dragonfly floating surface skimmer or maybe a reverse engineered PoolSkim?

I’m a bit old school and manually vacuum my pool. The last time I vacuumed we had had a bit of wind and there was some floating debris on the surface. One of our pool sides is a wall which makes using the scoop a bit difficult and thats where the debris tends to settle. After vacuuming the last time I thought wouldn’t be nice to turn my vacuum head upside down and push it around in the hard to get to areas.

Of cause I cant just turn the vacuum head upside down which got me thinking about a floating surface skimmer or reverse engineer the PoolSkim to float and operate on suction.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

A couple ideas- Poolskim or SolarBreeze.

Betta / Solar Breeze type surface cleaner
Pool Skim

Maddie

 

[AUSpool]

Thanks Maddie,

I saw something similar to the Betta but I thought it was operated more like a radio controlled boat. I could sit under an umbrella with a margarita and clean the pool. I like that idea.

 

[Katodude]

Betta or Solar Breeze. The two are fairly similar. I am a solar breeze guy, but there are a lot of people who like the Betta. Right now I think the Betta edges out the solar breeze, but if they fix the battery issues on the solar breeze then it is probably even or slightly in favor of the solar breeze.