POOL BLASTER Leaf Vac Recharge Cordless Rechargeable Pool Leaf Vacuum & Skimmer, Swimming Pool Leaf Catcher with Heavy Duty Mesh Bag, for Inground and Above Ground Pools, by Water Tech

I had read many reviews AFTER I purchased, as I looked at the complaints, I became quite concerned. Happily after I recieved it, I went straight out and used it, and happily those negative reviews only told me, folks were more oblivious to proper steps and use of this product.1st, if you look at the battery secure pocket, the seal is not really suitable for under water, so after installing batteries, it's only common sense to me to then take a sandwich sized zip lock and carefully wrap and seal the unit, then carefully insert battery pack into pocket, it fits tight and sealed battery pack famously, then replace the pocket's cover, not one part of my pack got wet, not even a little. Common sense!2nd, this unit is being used against the force of water, so if you are impatient and try to force this unit to hurry up and clean, well when it breaks, that's on you, you cannot and should not man-handle it, again common sense!3rd, I noticed that the deeper the unit went, and my inground pool is 8 foot, the deeper it went, the slower the fan seemed to have spun, which in turn spends the batteries faster as I'm guessing the depth of the pool made the unit work harder, but the unit with patients worked perfectly, it picked up leaves, twigs, bugs, dust, we had it covered for the mississippi winter, the tarp we used collapsed when we took it out a couple months ago, thus dropping alot of debris into pool, with continuous, unsuccessful attempts with the pool net and even our pool robot vacuum, the effort we put into cleaning it up took a toll. This bad boy cleaned it completely up in no time at all, Thank you God!!Lastly, as this is a unit I absolutely plan to use regularly once I get the pool set for summer use, I went ahead a bought rechargeable batteries with the charging unit, this will save you a bunch of time and money, as the seller stated you get on average about 3 hours out of these batteries, I got maybe 2.On the whole, and as you have to make a determination yourself, but the horror stories I found in these reviews were none of what I experienced, not even close, I absolutely would encourage you to give this product a try, thankyou for reading my review.

This thing picks up every crumb out of every pile of oak leaves, acorns and most twigs with one swipe. Just like vacuuming your pool. A full charge takes 3-4 hours so after my 5th cleaning I plugged it in and it was done in 20 minutes, so it looks like it will last a long time between charges (my use is about 10 minutes per clean). So much nicer than hooking up a hose and dragging that around plus I think this is even more powerful. And though I scoffed at flipping it upside down for skimming it really does work and pulls debris right into it. The fan isn’t even that strong but it is enough. This is the best addition to my pool kit since I purchased a Skim-It for the skimmer. I am delighted!

One manufacturing problem, the on off switch doesn't work. Press it 4, 5, 8 times and maybe it will turn off the motor. I removed the switch, by removing one screw, and just moving the leads to the switch is enough to turn the motor on. Clearly the switch is defective. So even when it's turned off, the leads can switch on and allows the motor to turn on again. The only way to ensure that the motor is turned off is to detach the batteries. Given that there's some serious torque on that motor, it should probably fail safe. It doesn't. I got it turned off, left it outside, and 5 minutes later it had turned itself back on again.Which leads us to the next problem. I suppose I should have looked more closely before I bought it, but the device runs on 8 AA batteries. This isn't a very big supply of electricity. I had a big problem with a large quantity of leaves on the floor of the pool. It's going to take a lot of time, well it would if I could trust it to work correctly. I don't think 8 AA batteries are going to do that job. Which means replacing them a couple of times. I'd rather have had a rechargeable lithium battery in the device that could be recharged with out disassembly. Would be nice if it was an add on. Like a battery and charger that could be installed if you purchased it separately.Finally, I did use it a couple of times and it was not horrible, but bringing it up out of the water, it was easy, very easy to lose the bag, and have it sink to the bottom of the pool, which in my case meant fishing for it, because I can't see the bottom of my pool at the deep end. A couple of floats on the bag, to make it just slightly positively buoyant would mean if the bag got detached, it would have a chance of floating up. I realize this might cause problems getting the device to the bottom of the pool so it would have to be just enough buoyancy to raise the bag, but not hold the device up. Maybe a couple of ping pong balls in the bag might be enough to keep it from sinking like a rock.The big problem right now is that the switch is defective. It fails on, so the device is useable, but not in my opinion very safe.

I have had an above ground pool for about a year and in that short time I have genuinely lost track of how many pool cleaning devices I have purchased. Robots, vacuums to use with gravity and/or the pump, hand held vacuums, etc. If Amazon sells it or people on TikTok talk about, I’ve purchased it. TikTok even convinced me to try a shop vac (I don’t recommend)! Most things I purchased were absolute trash and a few were just okay but didnt get the job done. I wish I had seen this first because this little contraption is EXACTLY what I needed. I have basically let my pool sit for about 2 months due to Florida winter and I was thinking we were going to have to drain it to get it functional after the hurricanes in the fall and sitting unused through the holidays but not anymore! This works so well and the mesh bag even sucks up/retains quite a bit of algae. We will be swimming in a few days thanks to this vaccuum. 10/10!