Pentair R201276 214 Pro Vac Series Residential and Commercial Pool Vacuums

I love this thing! Works great!

Same one my pool guy uses. He told me this is the best. It wasn't until I lifted it up did I understand why it was so expensive compared to the other ones. This is built like a tank. My last one was one of the $50 heads and it ended up warping. If you want quality over price, this is what the pro's use.

Holy cow what a difference. I have gone through several of the off shelf box store models, but they just don't do the job this one does. The off shelf models are not as heavy and they attempt to keep the vacuum head down by using a spring. This bad boy is pretty heavy. It stays flat on the pool floor. The head swivels which makes it easy to move around the pool. With the cheaper models, I found myself making two or three passes around the pool. This one gets the job done with one stroke. Wish I had purchased this years ago. If you want to save time and get the job done right the first time, I highly recommend that you spend the few extra bucks and get one of these.

Very heavy in a great way, sticks to bottom, suction is great 👍👍👍

Worth spending the extra money. Works well!

This item seems to be very high quality. I read some reviews about wheels falling off of these during use, but mine was very well put together, and I doubt that will ever be an issue. As for the operation of the vacuum, I attached it to a Robelle 750 Swimming Pool Vacuum Hose, 40-Feet by 1-1/2-Inch hose, and I used a Hayward SP1106 Large Skim Vac Plate to attach the hose to my skimmer basket. Since my pool has two surface skimmers, one must be blocked with a tennis ball, allowing all of the suction to be delivered to one skimmer. In my experience, it take a few minutes for the hose to completely fill with water, but once it is full, the connection between the skimmer plate and the skimmer basket is very strong. Then all of that suction power is available to the Pentair Pro Vac, and you don't have an issue with the Vac Plate coming loose while moving about the pool. The vacuum itself connects easily to any pool pole. The blue deck of the vac is slightly flexible allowing it to contour to rounded surfaces. The bottom of the vacuum has a couple of rubber pieces that run the width of the vac to increase suction power. The wheels roll smoothly, and the vac can be rolled up the side of my pool since the edges are curved like a bowl. My pool is roughly 15,000 gallons, so the 14inch works great for me. It also works well inside my hot tub. That being said, if I had a much larger pool, I would probably opt for a wider vacuum to speed up the process.

I am absolutely loving this vacuum head. My old unit lasted eight years, which is great, but it was very hard to use by comparison. This unit articulates up & down and left & right, which makes it so much easier to use. I also really like that the handle connecting piece is made of metal. The rollers are super smooth and the factory setting for roller height was perfect to create excellent suction and cleaning power. It provides a much better user experience than the less-expensive model from Pentair, which is the Pentair R201388 203. IMHO, this is definitely worth the money. (20' x 60' salt water pool, 50K gallons, plaster and tile)

as a first time pool owner, i have a 20x40 in-ground vinyl pool. the previous owner had one of those triangle vacuums that was a) hard to keep on the floor of the pool and b) seemed to just move the stuff around instead of sucking it up. Frustrated, I was scouring Amazon hoping to find something better without having to buy a pool robot cleaner. I came across this which was a reference in a review on a competing product. A couple of things to say about this. First, it is HEAVY! Make sure you properly handle it because of the weight. Second, get a good pole (obviously since it's heavy). Third, because of the weights on the vacuum as well as the rollers, the vacuum stays on the floor of the pool (or the walls if you want pull it up) and easily glides along. I had originally tried with the first vacuum to push it around the bottom and got tired well before I got through half the pool. This, I could push around all day long. It takes virtually zero effort to push around, and does an amazing job. Fourth, the suction on this cleaner is incredible. All in all, great product. Good design. Great performance. Keep in mind, I don't have much to compare this to as I am a first time pool owner, and the only thing I have to compare it against is the one the previous owners left us, but I couldn't be happier with this purchase.

Great quality and robust build.

Heavy so vacuuming is half the time

Took a little to get the right setup with the wheel height and which strips to install but once I did it worked amazing. Highly recommended.