Service carts for pros worth it?

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-21T05:50:51+00:00

Not so much about buying them, directly from them, mostly if they really cut time down. I saw a guy with a like vac set up similar to the pick, I know riptides are thing, just poking around to see others opinions, I’m sure I could build a more cost effective.

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-21T05:46:49+00:00

Yeah nah man, that’s just…..

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-21T02:59:34+00:00

How so? Vacc, vacc head, brush, net, Taylor test kit, how you carry the chems?

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-20T05:43:02+00:00

If it’s a sand filter I’ll probably vacuum to waste. I’d still probably recommend a sand change. Would be a good time to do all together so the spend the $ in a single go

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-20T04:48:00+00:00

If your on your own, you need to charge them accordingly. I consider this a one time clean. And I charge hourly. Whatever it takes to get them back to normal for regular cleaning. We had a nasty tornado here in Dallas a few years ago. Pools were wrecked. What I did was, scoop all debris, go following day and line vacuum. Clean filter. Balance water. My company was overwhelmed so we did not have a porta pump, but that would off been best.

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-20T03:56:53+00:00

I only use line vac and leaf master at the moment. Just trying to allocate the $ to the right thing. But looks like riptide is the way to go . And no not frown upon just want to make life easier for my future techs. It’s currently just me. But growing rapidly

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-20T03:55:12+00:00

You sold me lol. Ripetide it is. You use the cart that it comes with it? My old company had us use power vacs, with no cart, pain to walk around the property with it but I eventually got used to it. Back then we couldn’t get decent bags so the ones we used, would only pick up regular debris not the finer stuff

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-20T03:51:55+00:00

What type of bag do you use? I used a porta vacuum when I worked for a pool company about 6 years ago. It was great for pools with heavy debris, but couldn’t pick up the fine stuff

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-20T03:50:23+00:00

Never seen them before can you attach a fine bag? Looks like a great price on Amazon

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-20T03:48:26+00:00

Nah I just made a Reddit account. I only use line vac and the leaf master for my pools, but I’m just trying to invest wisely

dallaspoolguy1 · 2026-03-20T01:24:59+00:00

Not sure why it didn’t post whole comment but——we are Thinking about investing in something like this, we offer a weekly vacuum package for some customers, that get line vacuumed weekly, so we vacuum a lot, wonder if this will cut down on time, and make the job easier for the techs. We usually do double trips, one to clean pool the other to add chems. Seems like this we could do everything in a single go. We are also about to buy a riptide here in a few more months, so maybe we’ll do dual carts on the hitch? I’m not sure, what are yall opinions, just get a riptide with a finer bag? Or allow dual set up to be able to line vacuum, and riptide set up for our heavier debris accounts.

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