An entire “Seinfeld” episode revolved around the pool guy at Jerry’s health club—but these days, your pool cleaner’s more likely to be a machine. Using AI or other software to find their way around, a ...

Nobody buys a pool so they can spend their weekends cleaning it. A robotic pool cleaner does the dirty work for you: it rolls along the bottom, scrubs off stuck-on grime, and filters out leaves, dirt, ...

Swimming pools are fun. Cleaning swimming pools is not fun. I learned this simple logic as a kid growing up in and around pools—it’s the only way to survive summer in Houston. Four years ago, I became ...

Of those five listed capabilities, Zhang says that water surface cleaning was the hardest to tackle. Luckily, they found the mechanism they needed in the wild. “Drawing inspiration from nature, ...

My family is fortunate enough to have an in-ground pool in our back yard. It was a project that started just as the pandemic hit and so the construction got dragged out for more than a year longer ...

Swimming, relaxing, basking in the sun: A leisurely day at home by the pool is undeniably alluring. But the reality is that owning a pool means lots of maintenance, which can be time-consuming, tiring ...

Robotic pool cleaners have revolutionized pool care, eliminating the back-breaking routine of manual vacuuming, scrubbing, and brushing. Today’s models don’t just clean — they maintain a consistently ...

Algae blooms, peeling paint, and a host of fixes from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubblers have made it hard to diagnose what’s ...

Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...