Pooldevil Pro Automatic Pool Surface Dirt and Leaf Skimmer Cleaner 100039

I recently moved to El Paso, Texas. If you dont know anything about the area it is in the desert and it can be very windy. Our house has a beautiful pool, but it quickly became a chore to maintain. We have six tall pine trees along the patio which is great for privacy, but a headache for pool maintenance! And did I mention sand and wind?! And tiny little black bugs. I could skim the pool, turn around and it would be a mess again! The Pool Devil has been a God send! I can do a quick skim to get the bigger stuff and then this thing handles the rest! No more pine needles or little black bugs constantly floating in the pool! And set up was a breeze! And it is small enough where it is not in the way of swimmers. It hugs the wall of the pool nicely. Only when the sock get full does it have a tendency to float away from the side. Our pool only has one built in skimmer (thought it should have two). The Pool Devil is like having another dedicated skimmer! I actually think it works better than the actual bult in skimmer! If you have a pool and are considering buying one of these dont hesitate! It's well the money!

From what’s in the box unless you are the 10% of pools that have very specific aimright ball eye pool return fittings that are externally threaded onto the return, this isn’t for you. And I think those returns from the looks of it must be 3 inch or 4 inch line fittings, which would be unusual today. Too bad they don’t make that clear anywhere.Company doesn’t respond to questions submitted our website. And there were no other fittings in the box other than two aim right fittings.I just don’t see any way this would work for 75% of the pools out there. Minimally no matter what you might as well make sure you know how to disassemble your return line jets for you push the buy button. Make sure you know how to pop the eyes out and remove the fittings.

This is the simplest device and yet it works to remove fine particles, small leaves, bugs etc. from the pool's surface.When first installed, it did not perform very well (if at all). The hose was sinking and the water flow was directed up and not horizontally. I simply wrapped some foam packing material around the hose at the funnel end (see picture) and it began to pick up debris immediately. I also "tinkered" with the pool's return jets (pointed them downward and toward the side slightly) to create a gentle rotation of water on the pool's surface ... which helped this little device work much better.This is reasonably priced and works (with a little tweaking).

We ordered the Pooldevil because our pool skimmer just wasn't getting the itty-bitty stuff floating on the surface - the biggest culprit being the little worm-like debris (male pine cones) from the numerous pine trees in our front yard. Assembly/installation was super easy. It takes up very little space along the edge of the pool (ours is attached to the return in the deep end of our pool). We had to play with the angle of the hose a bit so that it sat just on the surface to create the vortex (too high of an angle, and the water shoots above the surface of the pool and there's no vortex). We hooked it up, got it situated, and let it do its thing. The next day when we came out, I was AMAZED at how clean our pool surface was! This thing works. Period. We've had it just about a month now, and there is no way our pool surface would stay clean without it. We leave our pump running 24/7, so it's always working. We were in the pool one super windy day - gusts would cause all sorts of crap to just come flying onto the pool surface. The Pooldevil sucked it all up within a few minutes, each and every time. A couple of cautions: 1) Turn off the pump when you clean out the sock. It just makes it easier not to have to worry about a spastic hose spewing water everywhere. 2) Those socks are not very sturdy. We have a magnolia tree in the backyard, and those leaves are hearty (and yes, they DO get sucked up into the sock!) We are diligent about using our net to skim all large debris off the surface, but sometimes, you just can't before it gets sucked in. The seams ripped on both socks, ruining them. They also stretch out after a while, so you do need to replace them (we're on our third sock). 3) Those socks are expensive (I think I saw that on someone else's review). We had some skimmer basket socks on hand - I tried one, and it works perfectly. These (skimmer basket socks) are way less expensive than the ones specifically for the Pooldevil. 4) It took what seemed like forever to get this thing finally delivered -- about a month from order to delivery, I believe. There was a point when I almost cancelled the order and was going to go with something else, but I'm glad I didn't!

This product works, just follow the instructions. Takes some tweaking to get it to perform it's best but it works. The only problem is it does not last. Plastic degrades in the sun and chlorine in about a year. I've bought three of them now as there is nothing better, but I would pay more if it was made with better materials.