The 15 Best Pool Accessories to Upgrade Your Summer (2026)
Kat MerckGearJul 29, 2026 8:01 AMThe 15 Best Pool Accessories to Upgrade Your SummerThese are the cleaning robots, water monitors, and safety gear actually worth buying for pool season.Courtesy of Beatbot; FunboyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyPools are hard. At higher settings, this current is downright extreme, able to blast an unprepared swimmer halfway across the pool. The result is a very effective way to exercise without swimming long laps in a traditional lap pool.
- ▪Kat MerckGearJul 29, 2026 8:01 AMThe 15 Best Pool Accessories to Upgrade Your SummerThese are the cleaning robots, water monitors, and safety gear actually worth buying for pool season.Courtesy of Beatbot; FunboyCommentLoaderSave StorySave
- ▪At higher settings, this current is downright extreme, able to blast an unprepared swimmer halfway across the pool.
- ▪The result is a very effective way to exercise without swimming long laps in a traditional lap pool.
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Kat MerckGearJul 29, 2026 8:01 AMThe 15 Best Pool Accessories to Upgrade Your SummerThese are the cleaning robots, water monitors, and safety gear actually worth buying for pool season.Courtesy of Beatbot; FunboyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyPools are hard. This is not news to anyone who owns one, but the uninitiated may not know about the inordinate amount of daily labor and chores that lie behind a pool’s clear, sparkling, perfectly chlorinated (or salted) water.Luckily, pool tech has come a long way in the past decade—gone are the hours spent scooping leaves and dead bugs out of the water with a long-handled net, laboring over pH strips, and trying to relax on floaties too small for your adult-sized behind.
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