Buying a Used Pool Robot: A 12-Point Inspection List
A twelve-point bench inspection for buying a used pool robot, from tracks and seals to a dry run test, plus what counts as a fair price.
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Pool Robot Replacement Parts: Stock These, Skip Those
A stocked parts shelf costs about seventy dollars and prevents most of the emergencies that strand a robot mid-season. Here is exactly what earns a spot on it, and what…
Pool Robot Maintenance: The Complete Care Routine
A former service tech's complete care routine: the five minute after-run habit, weekly and monthly checks, and the season-end steps that decide whether your robot lasts three seasons or eight.
Pool Robot Tracks and Wheels: Spotting Wear Early
One stretched track can fake a dead drive motor. Learn the slip symptoms you can spot from the deck, the bench checks that confirm wear, and how to swap tracks…
Deep-Cleaning the Robot Itself: A Seasonal Teardown
Twice a season, a full teardown reaches what weekly rinses never touch, from impeller bays to brush axles to track channels packed with quiet grime. Here is the order that…
Pool Robot Not Climbing Walls Anymore: Real Causes
A robot that used to climb and suddenly will not is almost always fixable for under $100. Match how it fails on the wall to the cluster of causes behind…
Pool Robot Hums but Won’t Move: Drive Faults Explained
That low hum means power is fine and the pump is alive, so the fault lives in the drive line. Trace jams, belts, gears, motor, and board in cost order,…
How Pool Robots Climb Walls (and Why Some Quit)
A pool robot holds itself on a vertical wall with nothing but water flow and tread. Here is the physics of the climb, and the short list of reasons it…
Fiberglass Pools and Robots: Grip, Slip, and Brushes
Gelcoat gives a robot almost nothing to bite, yet the right machine climbs it all day. The difference is rubber contact parts, healthy flow, and knowing the three slip zones.
Gunite and Plaster Pools: Robots for Rough Surfaces
Rough plaster hands a robot the best grip in the business, then quietly eats its brushes and tracks. Buy for wear rates, dust filtration, and the 28-day rule, in that…
Pebble Finish Pools: Why Some Robots Struggle
Pebble aggregate is the most abrasive surface a robot will ever climb. Here is why some models struggle on it, what wears out first, and how to pick one that…