Hayward SP1068 Pool Vacuum Cleaner Head

This is the best vacuum head around. I know it’s a higher price but it does an excellent job. I does a terrific job in my pool.

This vacuum seriously blows my mind! I went out of town for July 4th during a massive heatwave and my pool filter stopped working and everything turned green in literally 10 days! I got all the chemicals back in order, but there was still algae/discoloration that would form over every surface the day after I would brush. I got this along with this skimmer basket attachment (a MUST if you want it to work properly) and a hose and vacuuming the floor of my pool looked like a TV commercial! You could literally see the clean line where I was vacuuming. The trick is making sure you have a GREAT suction. A YouTube video taught me to attach the hose to the device and then put the end of the hose against your jet to push water all the way through the hose. You will know water has gone through the hose completely when you see water coming out of the device, then quickly and carefully attached the hose to the skimmer basket cover without getting air into the hose and you will feel the super strong suction. My pool has a little fitting where I should be able to attach the hose directly, but that doesn't work as well as the skimmer basket attachment. This works WAY better than the $1000 robot vacuum Ive purchased. It's hard to get the correct angle to vacuum the walls, so I brushed the walls down and when everything settled on the floor I would vacuum the floor.

this is my first real bottom vacumn, the seal to the pool surface, easy assembly, heavy enough to sink and stay sunk. It is a must have for the pool. A leaf cannister is the perfect combination.

I have been through more than one of the triangular shaped heads. Although I bought them from different places under different branding they were identical. Several of the ones on amazon are identical in manufacturing, just sold through different companies. This one however is much better, much different, and much more heavy duty.1. It disassembles! Basically this means if one part breaks you can remove it and order another from Hayward.2.It is much heavier duty than the others....Thicker, tougher plastic and brushes.3.It is heavy enough to not need weights....in fact at full suction I have a hard time moving it around as it forms an amazing seal...stays on the pool bottom without any issues. I turn my valve back about a 1/4 turn and its perfect...stays down like it should but allow for ease of motion.Basically a better version of most of the pool vacuum heads out there....however...I knocked off one star because the Amazon page implies that it comes either weighted or with weights built in......this is not the case. It in fact does not and the manual that comes with it explains they are and addition for this model (they come standard on another model)Overall great Product and if the weights aren't an issue, I would Highly recommend this vacuum head.

I compared this vacuum head to 3 other brands that cost less than $30. This amazingly out performs them all. I'm not sure why, but the suction is 100x better, it sucks dirt from all around it and feels like it's stuck to the pool floor. You can go faster than with the cheaper vacuum heads because for some reason it does not agitate the dirt around it like other heads do. I'm super impressed with this vacuum and it's it well worth the money. You get what you pay for, but the hydrotools is by far the second best vacuum I've used if you don't want to spend the money on this one.

I love the product and it was purchased to replace an older,worn out head. Thing is it was missing the 3 pack of weights. Amazon sent me a replacement and it was also missing the weights. Before asking for a replacement I did contact Hayward support to see if I could just get the weights. They were rude and told me to deal with it through amazon.

Note: This one comes with 3 weights. They are removable and you can also move them to different positions for the best configuration for your application.I asked Amazon Answers about using this on a cement pool. I got some good responses. My pool is only about 11,000 gallons and I wanted a device that would vacuum and brush at the same time. When I received this the box said for vinyl/fiberglass, but when I asked, others on Amazon Answers said they had used it successfully on a cement pool.I tried it and it worked well. I had some algae stains on the Marcite, as well as the rest of the dirt in pools. This cleaned it all up quite well.Here is where there is a caution! One needs to reduce the suction on the hose so it can move on the surface. I left the weights in. Here is the tricky part and it just takes practice. You can pull it to you OK, but you definitely can not push it away on a cement pool. It got so it was relatively easy for me to do. On the sides, I just pushed it straight down.I love this unit, it's sturdy, well built, and to me the brushes look rugged. I had no problems with it at all on my Marcite pool.This all said, if you don't want to practice with this unit to get the hang of using it on a cement pool, it's probably not for you. I liked it because I could get really stubborn dirt off the Marcite and I was able to vacuum and brush at the same time. Whatever, you do need to reduce the suction on the hose, otherwise, you'll never get it to move on a Marcite pool, for example.For me, it's a miracle unit and it is absolutely well built and not cheap junk like some of the lower cost units. It was worth every penny for me.