Automatic Pool Cleaner Buyers Guide

ROBOTIC POOL CLEANER BUYERS GUIDE

CE Approval
Is the machine CE approved for use in Europe?
All electrical products sold in Europe must be CE approved.

Electrical Plug
Does the pool cleaner come with a UK 3 pin plug?
Some robotic pool cleaners will come with foreign plugs as they are not official UK machines.

We keep 3 and 2 pin plugged models in stock for use in the UK or Europe.

Filter Bag Microns
How many microns does the filter bag filter down to?
The lower the microns the finer the filtration.
A lot of other pool cleaners only have 50-100 micron filter bags.

Our Aquabot range have a 2 micron filter bag for incredibly fine filtration.

Price of spares
Check prices of spares, eg. filter bags, belts, etc.
Machines which appear to be very cheap may have expensive spare part prices.

Our standard filter bag (part no. 8100s) is only £29.50 plus VAT.

How do you get hold of spares?
Many companies that sell pool cleaners don’t stock or sell any spare parts for the machines - so what do you do if you need a replacement part?

Are parts held in stock?
Other companies often don’t hold parts in stock. If your machine needs a new part, even under warranty - you may have to wait weeks on end for parts to be obtained.

We keep all recommended spare parts in stock for all current Aquabot models that we sell and many parts for older machines too.

Cycle length
Robotic pool cleaners vary in cycle length, taking anything up to 6 hours to clean the pool. The advantage of robotic pool cleaners over random suction cleaners should be their speed and thoroughness of cleaning. If a robotic pool cleaner is taking 5 or more hours to clean your pool - is there really much of an advantage over a suction cleaner?

Aquabot pool cleaners are the fastest robotic cleaners on the market, cleaning a standard residential pool in approx.an hour.

Warranty period
Whats the warranty period on the pool cleaner?
Make sure that if the machine has a 2 year warranty it covers parts and labour for the full 2 years.

Aquabots come with a 2 year parts and labour warranty.

Who is the warranty held with?
Is the warranty held with the people who are selling the machine or are they a middle party?
Will this mean that if you have to send the machine back under warranty you will be without a machine for weeks on end?

We carry out all Aquabot warranty work ourselves, so you deal direct with us at all times. We do our very best to get your machine back to you within 7 days from the date that we receive it.

Brushes
Some robotic pool cleaners sometimes require different brushes for different pool surfaces. This often requires you to buy additional brushes for the machine.

Aquabots come with PVA brushes as standard which are suitable for all pool surfaces.If you specifically require silicon brushes on your machine, we can fit these cheaper brushes free of charge instead of the PVA brushes.

Cheap Chinese copy machines
Look out for cheap chinese machines which copy other designs. They have no brand name and therefore no backup, they use inferior quality parts and are ultimately disposable machines.

Choose a well known brand
We would always recommend that you purchase well known brand. 99% of the time machines are purchased without any demonstration or trial and therefore you need to make sure that the brand has a good reputation for reliability and excellent performance.

France have the largest swiming pool market in Europe selling approx 40,00 units per year. Aquabot sales make up 50% of this final figure.

Delivery - are machines in stock?
Websites often advertise machines that they don’t actually sell. As strange as this sounds, they simply do this to get more visitors to their website. When you call to order, they try and talk you into a different cleaner that they do keep in stock.

We keep all Aquabot machines on our website in stock. Our delivery is 1-2 days - but 90% of the time the machine gets to the customer next day.

Is the company knowledgeable about their products?
Many pool companies are simply box shifters and know nothing about the products they sell. This can often mean you are sold the wrong machine for your swimming pool, that will not do the job you require. It is also frustrating if you need to ask questions prior to purchase and means any after sales support is none existent.

We have factory trained engineers on hand to discuss the Aquabots in as much details as you require. If you have any questions before or after purchase you can speak direct to an engineer to guide you through any queries or problems you may encounter.

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Aquabot robotic pool cleaners also known as Aquabot automatic pool cleaners, have been designed using the Aqua Smart System. Prior to the Aqua Smart System, all robotic pool cleaners functioned randomly, and lacked a systematic cleaning pattern. This meant that a robotic pool cleaner would need up to six hours to clean an entire swimming pool. These robotic pool cleaners also spent a lot of unnecessary time on the swimming pool walls, as this was the only way they could change direction and reach different areas of the swimming pool. The Aquabot automatic pool cleaners don’t need to spend time on the walls. The Aquabot automatic pool cleaners equipped with the Aqua Smart System can clean the pool and change direction on the floor of the swimming pool without any additional mechanical device, such as pistons, motors etc.

The Aquabot automatic swimming pool cleaners use a mathematical algorithm which is installed in the brain of the swimming pool cleaning machine and enables the robot to clean the pool bottom and walls in a systematic method without wasting any time.

Extensive research, testing and customer feedback supports our claim: our residential automatic pool cleaners can clean any standard residential swimming pool regardless of shape, in approximately ONE HOUR and our commercial range of automatic swimming pool cleaners give you greater flexibility by offering different cleaning cycles and a remote control for specific spot cleaning. All Aquabot robotic swimming pool cleaners clean unsupervised leaving you to enjoy the pool without the hassle of tedious cleaning regimes.