Reddit mentions of Power Pic Reach - The Most Powerful Filter Cleaning Tool

What a beautiful pool! I hope you enjoy it.

I have a gunite pool. Unfortunately (for you, but fortunately for me) I don't know how much it will cost to redo because the previous owner did it sometime before we bought. We've been in the house about 10 years now and haven't had to redo the gunite, so at least you know if it's done well you won't have to do it for a while.

The pool had a cartridge filter when we got it. The pump finally gave out a couple years ago and we had to replace it, and now have a sand filter. Truth be told, I feel the pool was consistently cleaner with the cartridge filter. Maintenance consists of pulling it out every couple weeks and hosing off any muck, and eventually bought a second one so we could just put the clean one right after taking the dirty one out. There are hose attachments you can get that help direct the water flow to make the cleaning more efficient. Here's an example.

For reference, there are only two of us who use the pool occasionally, and no kids or pool parties so there is minimal human ick. Our yard has a truckload of native oak trees so we end up with leaves in the pool that need to be skimmed often, especially after a storm.