What Exactly is a Floating Pool Skimmer?
Published June 3, 2022
Most pool owners’ primary complaint is the amount of time required for pool maintenance. Pool maintenance is a demanding task, and most people will prefer an alternate solution.
There are incredible robotic pool cleaners on the market that clean, scrape, and vacuum your pool and its walls. The pool’s bottom is beautiful but leaves still cover the surface. Every time you decide to go for a swim, you must still struggle through a buildup of leaves or insects on the pool’s surface. The issue is how to clean the pool’s surface quickly.
Floating Pool Skimmer Overview
Pool skimmers work as mobile or floating skimmer boxes. Many people use them as a stand-alone cleaner, despite the fact that they are commonly regarded as an addition to the bottom pool cleaner. Pool surface cleaners prevent most leaves and debris from sinking to the pool’s floor. A floating skimmer for pool will collect waste from all 360 degrees, covering the entire pool.
Like any other pool cleaner, pool skimmers can’t get rid of all of the leaves and debris in the water, but the cleaning will come close to 100%. A quick vacuum every couple of weeks is what many pool skimmer owners do, as they use the device as the only pool cleaner. This is a simple, inexpensive, and efficient method for pool maintenance. However, these floating pool filter are interchangeable with your bottom cleaner and ideal for a robotic pool cleaner.
Any pool cleaning product that does not attach to the pool’s filtration system has a significant drawback. They do not help the water circulation in your pool. Your filtration system cleans the water that passes through it. Compared to a fixed skimmer box, a floating pool cleaner attached to the filter will circulate more surface water; this makes your pool safer and cleaner while saving you time and money.
Other Benefits of Floating Pool Skimmer
Pool skimmers provide additional advantages that standard bottom cleaners and robotic cleaners do not.
- Using a pool skimmer saves you money in the long run: fewer leaves on the pool surface equals less nitrogen and fewer chemicals.
- Pool skimmers operate with your existing pump cycles, therefore avoiding the need for additional pumps or power sources.
- Pool skimmers will improve your pool’s overall health by increasing water circulation and reducing dead spots:
Dead spots are areas of stagnant water that your traditional fixed skimmer misses. As the pool’s surface accumulates microorganisms, these dead spots become breeding grounds for bacteria.
Thus, using a pool skimmer eliminates these contaminants; however, fixed skimmer boxes are typically not located in the appropriate location, and dead areas are widespread. A floating skimmer that is directly attached to the filtration system will direct these contaminants to the filtration system. They will move with the currents in your pool, increasing the surface area that is cycled through the system and minimizing or eliminating dead spots.
Floating Pool Skimmer Will Save You Time and Money
Most pool cleaners concentrate on removing leaves from the swimming pool after they’ve settled to the bottom. However, this can take days, during which time the leaves are already decomposing, increasing the pool’s nitrogen levels and attracting unpleasant materials. Other chemicals, like chlorine, must be added to the swimming pool to offset the nitrogen buildup. This will cost you in terms of both time and money.
(Related: 10 Awesome But Low-Maintenance Pool Landscape Design Ideas)
Hire Boca’s Favorite Pool Builders
Excel Pool and Patio Solutions is your trustworthy provider of pool services in Boca Raton. We are experts in pool and patio remodeling and can handle your resurfacing needs as well. Our technicians are vetted and trained for your guaranteed satisfaction. Get to know us by browsing our website or reaching out to us with any questions.
Contact our team today to request a free estimate for pool construction, maintenance, repairs and more.
Fact Checked By Experts
This is original content and has been diligently fact checked by our internal team of experts. Discover more about the rigorous editorial standards we uphold for our website here.
About The Author
Krizzia Paolyn has a passion to share her voice, and at the same time, to encourage other people to speak up. She has a bachelors degree in Psychology and a passion for the outdoors.
