There’s nothing better than that first dip of the season in your crystal-clear swimming pool. But you’ve got to put in hours of spring cleaning before your backyard oasis is ready for summer fun. With ...

Pool opening season is the great equalizer. It doesn’t matter how much you spent on the cover, how carefully you winterized, or how confidently you told yourself this spring would be different. You ...

Spring is in the air, which means it’s time to tackle dust, clutter, and all of those forgotten areas of your property. But why do it the hard way when smart cleaning gadgets can do the heavy lifting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Terri Williams is a journalist covering housing trends. According to the 2026 Spring Cleaning Survey by the American Cleaning ...

Swimming pools are fun. Cleaning swimming pools is not fun. I learned this simple logic as a kid growing up in and around pools—it’s the only way to survive summer in Houston. Four years ago, I became ...

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Nobody buys a pool so they can spend their weekends cleaning it. A robotic pool cleaner does the dirty work for you: it rolls along the bottom, scrubs off stuck-on grime, and filters out leaves, dirt, ...

As we all know, cleaning your pool is hardly a task that many people, if any, enjoy. Unless you are hard up for some varied exercise or just like hard work, ...