Cleaning the bottom of your pool without a vacuum cleaner is possible!

To enjoy clean and healthy water for swimming, maintaining your pool – and more specifically, the bottom and walls – must be part of your daily routine. And this is true whether you have an above-ground pool or an in-ground pool !

While electric pool robots are particularly practical for cleaning your pool, the purchase cost remains high. Fortunately, other solutions exist for cleaning your pool without vacuuming. 

Are you wondering what these solutions are? Aboral compares for you the different techniques for maintaining your pool and the alternatives to the pool vacuum robot.

Why is it necessary to clean the bottom of your swimming pool regularly?

A swimming pool is like a house: it lives and ages! Indeed, over time, natural deposits (leaves, insects, pollen, etc.) can fall on the surface of the water, impacting the quality of the water .

To keep your pool in good condition for as long as possible, effective and regular cleaning of your pool is essential. This will reduce algae growth and damage to equipment, such as the pool pump.

But to maintain a pool properly, it is not enough to pour chlorine or any other treatment products several times a week…. Keeping a pool clean also involves cleaning the bottom, walls and waterline . It is also necessary to regularly empty the baskets of your skimmers as well as the pump pre-filter.

How to clean the bottom of a swimming pool without a vacuum cleaner?

Net, brush, chemicals or even a vacuum cleaner... There is no shortage of alternatives to a pool bottom vacuum cleaner ! Discover without further delay the different possibilities that exist on the market to keep pool water healthy and clean.

The background brush

Is the bottom of your pool covered in impurities, deposits or even algae? 

To replace a pool vacuum cleaner , nothing beats manual brushing with a brush! Connected to a telescopic handle, your bottom brush will allow you to clean the bottom and walls of your pool, without damaging the coating. The sponge brush can even be used with a degreasing product to clean the waterline as well as the nozzles and skimmers.

Once detached from the wall, the impurities will be more easily eliminated, either by the filtration system or by disinfectant products.

The pool broom

Another alternative to clean your pool without a vacuum cleaner or pool robot: the manual broom . Directly connected by a floating hose to the filtration system, this device collects all the impurities remaining stuck to the bottom of the pool and on the walls.

Depending on your pool type and your needs, you will have the choice between different models of pool broom . As an indication, know that:

– Using a roller broom is preferable for a paint coating;

– The more classic brushes will adapt to hull or liner coverings.

Square, rectangular or even oval: depending on the shape of your pelvis, Aboral recommends that you choose the most suitable shape in order to recover the pelvis optimally.

Treatment products (flocculant)

Although your pool is maintained on a daily basis, stubborn stains can appear on the walls and bottom of the pool. This often occurs after a new filling, when certain concentrations, such as calcium, iron or copper, appear in the water.

To avoid this inconvenience, use a chemical product such as a flocculant . Used to agglomerate the different particles, it will then be easier to eliminate them and clean the bottom of the pool to find clear and limpid water.

The bottom landing net

As its name suggests, the bottom net will help you collect impurities stuck at the bottom and in the corners of your pool. Thanks to its telescopic handle, this type of net makes it easy to collect leaves, insects and other impurities that have settled at the bottom of the pool.

As such, it appears to be the ideal device to complement the action of filtration and treatment products … And above all, to increase their effectiveness!

A good pool cleaning as a preventative measure!

Your Aboral pool specialist has just presented the best devices capable of effectively cleaning the bottom of your pool, without a vacuum cleaner. Although they are extremely effective, these tools are nonetheless manual; unlike the cleaning cycle of pool robots, they therefore require a little effort and time.

Fortunately, to avoid spending hours scrubbing your pool, there is a solution: prevention! Thanks to these few reflexes, you will make cleaning your pool much easier , while saving time!

Follow the leader !

First step: filtration

For the cleaning of the bottom and walls of your pool to be truly effective, you will need to ensure that you filter the water daily . And for good reason, unfiltered pool water ends up stagnating and accumulating impurities (insects, leaves, pollen, etc.). Result? The water in your pool is polluted with bacteria of all kinds and therefore unfit for swimming.

By installing a filtration system , the pump will be able to suck the water from the pool through the skimmers. Subsequently, the water is cleaned through the filter and the return jets redirect it to the pool.

You will have understood: Filtration is in some way the lungs of the swimming pool. Installing a filtration system allows you to purify the pool water and eliminate the impurities that you will have removed from the bottom and walls of your pool.

Step two: water treatment

Just like filtration, water treatment should not be neglected if you do not want to spend hours scrubbing the bottom and walls of your pool.

To carry out this water maintenance , you have several treatments available:

1. Chlorine : considered the most widely used treatment by pool owners, chlorine is now renowned for its effectiveness and excellent value for money. Indeed, it has many disinfectant and oxidizing properties. It exists in liquid form but also in tablets and granules.
2. Salt electrolysis : Unlike chlorine treatment, this process is completely automated. Economical and ecological, it transforms salt into chlorine using a set of electrodes. Result: the water is purified and is not irritating to the skin and eyes.
3. Bromine (active oxygen): Available in several forms (tablet or liquid ) and odorless, chrome treatment is however more sensitive to temperature differences. It therefore requires more delicate use.

Step 3: The pool cover

To avoid having to clean your pool, the must-have is to opt for a pool cover . Once unrolled, it will prevent impurities from accumulating inside the pool.

And what's more, pool covers have the double advantage of limiting heat loss. The water in your pool will stay at the right temperature for longer! Perfect for extending the swimming season!

You will have noticed: thanks to a few simple maintenance actions and effective manual maintenance devices, you will not need a robot vacuum cleaner. For more information on the maintenance of your pool, do not hesitate to contact your Aboral pool specialist. Our teams will be happy to answer your questions.