Intex Pool Maintentance Kit - Deluxe Edition

Imported product. Suction was poor as there was no proper vaccum between attachnents. Not helpful can be avoided

I'm giving this product 5 stars based on the fact that for a relatively cheap kit that comes with this many items in it, it's totally worth the investment! If you were to buy a skimmer and pole alone, you'd be spending almost as much as you do buying this kit. That being said, my only complaint is that I wish the holes in the mesh lining of the skimmer were smaller. It doesn't pick up small gnats and tiny debris. I bought this set mainly because it came with a vacuum. Let me just tell you that my pool floor was disgusting. Last year, I had a standard garden hose method vacuum that came with my pool and it never worked for me, so I knew that I wanted to purchase a better vacuum this year. However, I wasn't willing to fork over hundreds of dollars for a vacuum. Nope. This Intex vacuum is excellent- that is, once you correctly follow the instructions and quit making goofy operator errors like I did. My Coleman 18x48 above ground has 2 inlet openings and 1 outlet opening. I had no clue that I could unscrew the inlet plugs to fit the hose adapter to it! So, initially, I placed the adapter on the OUTLET! Oops. The vacuum kept coming apart and water was spewing out of the sides and it took me 2 hours to realize what I had done. Once I placed the adapter on an Inlet attachment, things started falling into place. Next, I had to put the plug into the second inlet hole, otherwise there was not enough pressure in the water to get the vacuum to suck up the debris. When placing the hose in the water, you must first attach the hose to the vacuum and submerge the vacuum, then began placing the hose deep into the water STARTING NEAREST TO THE VACUUM. Do not just throw the entire hose in and expect it to fill. As you pull the hose in about a foot at a time, it will fill. Once you reach the other end, water should begin coming up through it. If you still have a lot of air in the hose, turn on your pool pump and place the end of the hose up against the outlet to push water through the hose for about a minute. Keep the hose under water and move it over to the inlet adapter and place it on the adapter. Voila! Also, very important to now release the air on your filter pump. You may need to do this repeatively, as it will help keep the suction pressure high and keep from damaging your pump. When your waste basket gets full, turn off your pump and pull the hose off of the vacuum, and clean the basket using a garden hose. Before continuing to clean the pool, you must pull the hose out and start at step one with submerging the hose and releasing air from it before turning on the pump again and continuing. So there you go. My mistakes took me 5 hours before getting this simple vacuum to work, but once I slowed down and figured it out, it only took me about 2 more hours to clean the pool (mine was very dirty as this is the first time it's been thoroughly cleaned.) I'm very satisfied with the results! 1. Hook hose up to the INLET! 2. Plug up the 2nd inlet (if you have 2). 3. Submerge the hose a little bit at a time starting with the end closest to the vacuum. 4. Release any additional air by holding hose onto the OUTLET once pump is running. 5. Release the air that got into your pump/filter area. I hope this helps those of you who look at this pool cleaning business as rocket science. I know it's pretty new to me and mistakes are bound to occur, but once you get the steps down, this vacuum really is the bomb dot com! And it's totally worth the money!

De buena calidad perfecto

Great bit of kit well worth the money

Help clean the pool floor of sediment as required

Bon produit pour ce qu'on en fait mais le filtre ne sert pas à grand chose parce qu'il se bouche rapidement et implique l'arrêt de la pompe faire gaffe à ne pas faire rentrer d'air dans la conduite d'aspiration etc quand on utilise la filtration en mode égout le filtre et plus embêtant qu'autre chose