Pentair K60400 Kreepy Krauly Kruiser Automatic In-Ground Pool Cleaner, Blue
- Superior vacuum power and extra-wide mouth captures large and small debris with ease
- Silent flapper design provides quiet cleaning performance
- Patented seal design includes specially engineered fingers to assure the unit won’t get stuck or thrown off course by main drains, tight corners, eyeball fittings, and lights
- Built-in bumper assures free movement around steps and ladders for total cleaning coverage and uninterrupted, hands-free operation
Kreepy Krauly Kruiser Inground Automatic Pool Cleaner
List Price: $ 499.00
Price: $ 499.00
Best Pool Cleaner by FAR!!,
love this product. i just bought a new home with an in-ground pool & didn’t really know anything about pools or cleaning them. this product was easy to understand, easy to put in my pool and it started working immediately. it takes a little bit of tweaking on the regulator and moving around your jets that push water back into the pool from the pump to ensure the cleaner goes all around the bottom of the pool. in no time at all it is cleaning!! i had the local pool company come out and check out my equipment (filter, pump, etc) and they said many pool companies don’t sell this product because it works so well. they don’t get customers coming back in the store, asking for parts, etc. because this product works so well! they don’t get that repeat business coming back to the store, because it simply works!! great product, i’d recommend to everyone!
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|Keep it simple!,
I was sick of replacing the diaphragm on my Baracuda G3 every year. The Kreepy Krauly Kruiser has no moving parts! It climbs the sides of the pool better than the Baracuda G3. I have a custom shaped pool so this is very important to me. It might be a little more expensive than other Baracuda’s but it is worth every penny you save in maintenance and trips to the pool store. Keep it simple! This thing rocks!
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|Great cleaner after correct setup,
After reading a number of reviews on many different competing varieties of pool cleaner, I thought I’d give this one a try. The reviews for products made by Pentair generally seemed better than those for the competition’s products, and when I was younger my family had a single Kreepy Krauly that was around as far back as I can remember. As for why I chose this model over the Kreepy Krauly Classic, I honestly can’t really say. I can’t find much information on the Pentair website regarding which of their suction-side cleaners is the “best” model, so I kind of took a guess. Price doesn’t even help much, since I’ve found that some places charge more for the Classic, and some charge more for the Kruiser.
One thing that I did notice in the reviews for the Classic is that a number of people have complained about having to replace several parts every year. The good thing about the Kruiser is that there are really only a couple of things that look like they’ll need eventual replacement — two pieces that touch the pool surface (eventually they will wear down and need to be replaced when the ‘tread pattern’ disappears), and maybe the flapper since it’s a moving part, although looking at it I’d be surprised if anything happened to it since it’s tucked away and pretty sturdy.
The Kruiser comes with a LOT of stuff. I was surprised at how thorough the company is when including parts. In addition to the cleaner head, the rubber vacuum seal/sweeper disc thingy, and the hoses, you’ll also get a couple of hose weights and a bag full of extra goodies.
The cleaner head is already assembled. All you have to do is slip on the big blue rubber disc and attach the hoses. That’s it, your pool cleaner has been completed! After that, you can add hose weights to the hose, depending on how deep your pool is. They help to counter the buoyancy of the hose in deep water.
And then there’s the bag full of extra parts. If you have a vacuum port in your pool but don’t have a vac-loc safety valve on it, don’t worry because they included one. Don’t have any eyeball diverters on your return ports, or they don’t work as well as you want? Don’t worry, they included a couple of replacements for you. Need an elbow joint for some reason even though it’s never mentioned in the manual and I can’t figure out what it might be needed for? Well it’s in the bag. There’s also some other fittings and an adjustable suction valve for the skimmer. There’s even a suction-measuring tool that you can use to determine if you need to make adjustments.
The fun part comes from making the adjustments. I’m pretty sure that at least 75% of the bad reviews of any pool cleaner are related to user error in some way. I feel this way because the amount of time required to get this one working perfectly was not trivial. And that’s not an issue with the cleaner itself — it’s just the nature of the beast. And someone who is impatient or doesn’t understand that adjustment is required… well they’re not going to be too happy. So here’s a brief description of what you may need to do so you’re aware of it. Regardless of the model of suction-side cleaner you go with, you will probably need to do some of this.
Initial Installation: If you have a dedicated vacuum port, just plug it in there. Optionally, you can plug a speed adjustment valve into the skimmer. More on that later. That’s it for installation. If you don’t have a vacuum port, you can plug it directly into the skimmer, again optionally adding the adjustment valve.
Return Ports: If you’re not replacing an existing cleaner (meaning if, like me, you were previously using just the skimmer and main drain), chances are your return jets are pointing more or less toward the surface. That increases the movement on the surface and helps the skimmer do its job better. With a pool cleaner, they should be pointed more downward because jets pointed toward the surface tend to interfere with hose, potentially pushing it away from areas that need cleaning. After your initial adjustment, you may need to dial them in a little more if you see that the vacuum is still favoring one part of the pool. Before I did this, my cleaner absolutely refused to enter the shallow half of my pool under any circumstances. After the adjustment it was able to go anywhere.
Hose Weight(s): It’s possible that you will need to move the hose weight toward or away from the vacuum head in order to get the ideal amount of buoyancy. It will also help the vacuum to stay on walls without falling off and keep the head from tilting back too far in shallow areas, causing it to lose suction. The best place for the weight will depend on the depth and shape of your pool, but for me it was about 6 inches behind the head.
Hose Length: The manual states that you’ll want a hose that it at least the longest length it will ever have to travel, plus one…
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