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With the summer season underway, pools across the country are now starting to open. But for most folks, the maintenance that goes into caring for one at home can be a real chore. If you’d rather spend your time splashing in the water instead of scooping bits of leaves and dead bugs out of your pool, you have a couple of options. You can hire someone to do it for you, or you could try using a robotic pool cleaner, which essentially does for your lagoon what a robot vacuum does for your floors at home. Now, you can get one of Amazon’s bestselling robot pool cleaners on sale for a steep discount.
The Aiper Seagull SE is a cordless device designed to easily clean the bottom of your pool. This device usually costs $300, but for a limited time, you can get it starting at $180, so you’ll save up to $120. Though that still might seem pretty expensive, it’s much more affordable than other popular models on the site, many of which can cost as much as $1500.
Apart from the price, this robot pool cleaner sets itself apart from other models in a number of ways. It can suck up leaves, dirt, and other grimy sediment that’s stuck to the bottom in just 90 minutes, and works best on above-ground pools that are up to 33 feet in diameter (it also does well on in-ground pools up to 850 square feet). It has a dual motor so it’s ultra powerful, plus it features two built-in scrapers that’ll scrub your pool as the device jets forward, and it can filter out substances up to 180 micrometers in size, which is equivalent to the diameter of a human hair.
The Apier Seagull SE is a slightly older model compared to the Seagull Plus (normally $400 and currently on sale for $100 off), the brand’s all-new release that offers up to 110 minutes worth of cleaning time. However, the SE is more popular—it has over 10,000 reviews and a 4-star rating on Amazon—and many of the customers who have tried it already swear it’s a game-changer.
“[It] does what it says it does and it filled my little anxious heart with joy when I would look at my pool and there was no dirt or leaves skulking at the bottom,” one Amazon shopper wrote. Another noted: “I will admit that I didn’t hold out much promise that it would clean my pool effectively. But the first time I set this guy in my pool, [I] watched as it ran around the bottom of my pool, leaving it just as clean as when I stand there and manually [vacuum]. I [highly] recommend this product.”
Grab the Apier Seagull SE robot pool cleaner on Amazon and save up to $120 today. While you’re at it, you may want to check out these fun pool toys and games under $40 that can also help you make the most of the season.
A version of this story was originally published in 2022 and has been updated for 2023.
This article was originally published on www.mentalfloss.com as This Bestselling Gadget Is Like a Roomba for Your Pool, and Now It’s on Sale.