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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
Cool little pool vac
This is a great little vac. It hooks up to your filter intake or skimmer, and vacuums straight to your filter - not a bag with holes that doesn't catch fine particles. We use ours in a 24' above ground pool made by Intex. Yes, one of those temporary pools. It would work in any above ground pool! The most important thing to have is a good filter system. The filter...
Published on May 4, 2006 by Rapunzel
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
So cute but not worth the trouble
We got this little Aquabug last summer towards the end of the season and used it only a few times before we experienced leaks in our new liner. It was a hard pill to swallow but we had to face the facts. When the bug stalled in certain places around the pool, it was not just cleaning the liner; its hard plastic edges had dug into it causing small holes and massive...
Published on May 16, 2008 by C. Mattis
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
Cool little pool vac, May 4, 2006
This is a great little vac. It hooks up to your filter intake or skimmer, and vacuums straight to your filter - not a bag with holes that doesn't catch fine particles. We use ours in a 24' above ground pool made by Intex. Yes, one of those temporary pools. It would work in any above ground pool! The most important thing to have is a good filter system. The filter supplied by Intex is not very good. This vac works best with a sand filter. We have a Hayward Pro Series system with a 1.5 hp Power Flo Maxtrix pump. The combination of this filter system and vacuum has saved my summers. I spent the first year with this pool spraying out the filter and hand/pole vacuuming only to see the finer particles come back into the pool through the return. It took all the pleasure out of having a pool! Now, I hook up my vac (3 min), turn on the filter system (1 sec), and walk away - it's awsome!!! This little vacuum even handled our pool opening this year, which included a large number of leaves and a ton of very fine particles. Unlike the super expensive Pool Rover, this vacuum does not move systematically around the pool to clean in a specific period of time. It moves in ever-widening circles, then goes straight for a bit and starts circling again. It can be a little vexing to see it turn just before it gets to something that you want it to vacuum up, but if you give it time, it will get everything. We put ours in and let in run for about an hour, when we come back the pool looks great! Aqua Bug, Wanda the Whale, and Diver Dave are all the same vacuum with different housings.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Love the bug, July 10, 2005
I couldn't be happier with the AquaBug. It does a great job of cleaning my pool quickly and quietly. They say it takes 10 minutes to install, but I did it in about 5. The biggest problem with the bug is that it looks like a toy and is fairly inexpensive, so people might not take it seriously. However, it really does the job. It came with enough hose for my 15' x 30' pool, and it never gets stuck on my ladder. Added bonus: the random path it takes through the pool is hypnotic to watch. If you get a lot of leaves in your pool, I recommend getting the optional leaf-catcher to keep your filter from getting clogged.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
Works as Described, April 26, 2006
I have a 24 foot round above ground pool with a 52' inch depth. The bottom is not perfectly smooth (some wrinkles and divets), but the product does a great job in about 2 to 3 hours. I plan on running it every couple of days to clean and stir up the water at the bottom of the pool.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
My doubts have been erased!, June 6, 2010
This review is from: Hayward 500 Aqua Bug Above-Ground Automatic Pool Cleaner (Lawn & Patio)
This little pool cleaner rocks. I have a 16 x 32 oval pool and my "professional" pool installer totally screwed up the bottom which left it with small wrinkles, and even worse, large indentations where the sand under the pool settled and the frame is raised. This makes for some pretty substantial navigation challenges for the Aqua Bug, or so I thought. I was reluctant to buy this at first, thinking there is no way it could overcome the uneven bottom of my pool. Considering the price, I thought WTH, and I went for it. I was pleasantly surprised as the Bug wondered into an indentation, stopped for a few seconds, turned a different direction and crawled out again. Awesome. Obviously if the Bug couldn't handle this it wouldn't even pay for me to use it since I'd be out there baby-sitting it constantly. If that were the case I may as well just clean the pool manually. But, as I said, the Bug came through with flying colors. The Aqua Bug didn't come with enough hose to reach the end so I had to buy more hose. (It comes with about 30 feet, but you have to take into account it not only has to span the entire length of the pool, but also has to go "down" to the bottom.) That being said, it took about two hours for the Bug to clean the entire area it could reach. I'll have the extra hose by the next use, but I don't expect it will take much longer. The DVD with instructions that comes with the Bug explicitly states that the bottom of your pool must be flat and smooth. It's nice to get a product that actually out performs expectations. How often does that happen?
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
So cute but not worth the trouble, May 16, 2008
We got this little Aquabug last summer towards the end of the season and used it only a few times before we experienced leaks in our new liner. It was a hard pill to swallow but we had to face the facts. When the bug stalled in certain places around the pool, it was not just cleaning the liner; its hard plastic edges had dug into it causing small holes and massive water loss. Calls to Hayward customer service provided little assistance so we decided to soften up the bottom edges of the bug by sanding them lightly and it seemed to work because we had no further problems with leaks. Update to this summer, we placed the bug in the water, its forth cleaning cycle, and it no longer moves. As I say, it is cute but it does not work. Next.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Cute and convient, June 9, 2010
This review is from: Hayward 500 Aqua Bug Above-Ground Automatic Pool Cleaner (Lawn & Patio)
I wish that I would have bought this last year for my above ground pool. Took only a few minutes to set up. I have an INTEX inflatable pool so I had to go to a home improvement store and buy an reducer pipe adaptor to fit in to the adapter that came with it not really a big deal but it took a little effort to get it to fit. Works very well when my pump cycles daily it scurries around and picks up any debris settled in the bottom of the pool.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Great Pool Cleaner, April 27, 2010
This review is from: Hayward 500 Aqua Bug Above-Ground Automatic Pool Cleaner (Lawn & Patio)
We live in Phoenix AZ and have nothing but blowing dirt. I bought my aqua bug 2 weeks ago, now our pool sparkles. I have owned my pool for a year now and have not seen my pool this clean. I am very pleased with this product. I hope it lasts for years to come.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
NOT Recommended .. Just Not Durable Enough for the Cost, April 23, 2010
We bought a new pool in 2008 and it came with a Hayware Aquabug. The first season, I was fairly impressed with it. It did a good of cleaning job (although slow, as others have mentioned). It even climbed the walls about 1 foot and cleaned them too. From the start, I had minor problems with it getting stuck under the ladder and sometimes it would tip over for no apparent reason.
Last summer, my aquabug was a hugh disappointment. After just one season's use, the wings that cause it to move were just about worn out; and the bug didn't move well at all. It constantly got stuck in the same place; so I had to push it around with my foot in order to clean the whole pool bottom.
I just opened my pool for the 2010 season and tried using my aquabug; but it didn't move at all on its own, so into the trash it went. (At least the hose that came with it is still good; so all is not lost!)
For the cost, I have to rate this product as junk since I realy only got 1 season's use out of it. If the Aquabug sold for $30-50, I give it a 4 star rating and just replace it ever year. Unfortunately, this product's actual cost is just too high for the actual use I got out of it.
As a sideline note, I just bought a new Kreepy Krauly Lil' Shark automatic pool cleaner for $148 here on Amazon.Com. I've only had it for 1 day; so I don't want to write up a review on it yet. I will say, that so far it is doing a great job and it moves considerably faster than my Auqabug did. It also has an attachment that lets me use it as a vac head attached to a pole. For me, that's a real plus that the Auqabug did not have. After I've had more time to evaluate my Lil' Shark, I'll post a full review on it too.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
great buy, May 6, 2009
Durability: Fun: Educational:
This review is from: Hayward 500 Aqua Bug Above-Ground Automatic Pool Cleaner (Lawn & Patio)
I purchased this cleaner to help with the daily chore of cleaning the pool, love the Aqua-Bug and its seemless wandering of the pool!! The only draw back is that if you have "wrinkles" in your pool it will hinder the "bugs" movement or even cause it to become "confused", but dont worry your kids will love watching it swim around.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
The little sucker works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, June 15, 2010
This review is from: Hayward 500 Aqua Bug Above-Ground Automatic Pool Cleaner (Lawn & Patio)
Read the reviews and bought one. It works great. No problems in my 16' round pool. We run it with with a large sand fiter and it is perfect for our lifestyle. More fun, less time cleaning!
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