Great saves me stacks of time, Shipping is too expensive in today's world when most company's offer shipping for free. Intex needs to work on this one........
On a routine day, I have to stop by pump twice to pull leaves out of various strainers along the way because the skimmer doesn't pull them into the basket.
The skimmer has these flaps on the bottom, which draws debris in the bottom, completely bypassing the basket. It's like someone took a skimmer that would probably be fine and asked how to make it worse.
I'd say I pull less debris out of the basket than out of anywhere else in the system.
I'll be looking for a different skimmer. This one sucks.