Leaves on bottom of pool

[waste]

Mike, not sure where to get one (Walmart, Home Depot ?). It's ~18" round with 4 wheels, a pole connection and a female hose connection. It works like the polaris, ie venturi action from the hose, pulls leaves etc into the big mesh bag. In fact it's basicly a garden hose driven polaris that you have to direct around the pool with the pole. Perhaps Larry can clarify for me.

[larry b]

yes i have it here in my hand, its13 inches wide, 6-7 inches. high, leaf net goes around the top white ring, it goes on your pole , the end of your hose just goes onto the fiting on the base of the bagger, water jets up the bagger netting and the leaves follow its just that simple , bought it at the pool store.

[ivyleager]

Here's a link to the leaf bagger:
http://www.wards.com/product-2/64538.htm

I've yet to see one in any pool store in my area (NC).

CaryB

[Pool_Mike]

sounds simple. gotta head to my pool store tomorrow to get more salt. so I will ask about this. Thanks all!!

[keastman]

My experiece with leaf rakes is that the type and brand make a big difference in how they work. Some are great and the leaves easily move into the bag, others are like a trying to open a lock with a tooth pick. I have an Aquajet pool cleaner, but find it's easier to take 5 minutes to use the leaf rake first before running it. Also have used the leaf bagger or leaf vac that you guys mentioned and find my leaf rake a lot easier to use and faster, not to mention having to deal with the garden hose. I got my rake at HD, it has a soft white mesh bag on it and the rim has a plastic edge on it that is curved to cause the leaves to lift off the bottom.

[Pool_Mike]

so when you hook up the waterhose, where does the other side of the waterhouse go to? The return or just to the water faucet??

[keastman]

Garden hose hooks up to your water faucet, I suppose you could get some adaptors to hook it your return but I think you'd have better pressure from the house water pressure assuming it is at a reasonable level. This of course does add water to the pool every time you use it.

[Pool_Mike]

Man, had allot of wind and blew crap load of leaves into our pool skimmper basket was full and also leaves that sank clogged around my 2 main drains, which allowed no suction to our pool and motor was running like crap. I would not think that it would be so bad.

I have yet to purchase that leaf catcher, but I am seriously thinking about pulling out my solar cover and drop it in our new pool and hope that would keep majority of the leaves sink below. arrggghh!!