It’s Pool-Opening Season — and We Found Pool Cleaners for Less than $40 at Amazon

There’s nothing more exciting than opening up your pool for the summer… except when a winter’s-long mess of algae, brown leaves, and miscellaneous gunk stares up at you from the depths.

So before you head to checkout with a cart full of new swimsuits and trendy sunscreens, you’ll want to add a dependable pool cleaner to the pile. And though your mind might immediately go to pricey robotic models, you’d be surprised to know how many manual options go for $50 or less. We found vacuum cleaners, pool brushes, and skimmer kits available at Amazon starting at just $13 — and we even tested a few of them ourselves.

Read on for some of the most budget-friendly pool cleaners available right now.

This $13 pool brush was one of the best manual tools that we came across in our pool cleaner trials. Coming in at 18 inches wide, the mid-sized brush has nylon bristles that are sturdy yet pliable enough to scrub the crevices of your pool’s walls, floors, and stairs without damaging the liner. Its rust-proof aluminum material is another perk, keeping the head looking brand new even after a summer’s-worth of dips in the pool. Putting the brush into action is easy: simply remove the net from your skimmer pole, click the attachment head into place, and scrub away.

This suction head attachment does what your $500+ robot vacuum can’t — collect large piles of debris, like big leaves, piles of dirt, and other miscellaneous m -

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esses. It comes with eight high-pressure water jets that coax debris into its large opening and filter bag, which one shopper said was big enough to clean their in-ground pool in under 15 minutes.

“Just this week I returned the last of my expensive cordless pool cleaning robots and will never buy another,” another shopper wrote. “It's great to find something that actually works and solves a problem but doesn't cost a fortune.”

You have to purchase the bag and attachment pole separately, but both bundles happen to be on sale. All you need to do is attach your garden hose, pool pole, and filter bag, and get to work.

Another cleaner that we tried and liked is the Poolwhale Portable Pool Vacuum. This manual model surprised us with its powerful suction and large filter bag, which allowed us to get our cleaning done in one go rather than having to empty it before the job was done (a snag we ran into with several other models with much higher prices).

“It does so much of a better job than any robot vac or regular pool brush vac and nothing goes in your filter,” one five-star reviewer wrote. “I was shocked and extremely pleased!”

The bounty of budget-friendly pool cleaners doesn’t end here. If you’re still searching for a new model, keep scrolling to more under-$50 options that you can buy at Amazon now.

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