The Kreepy Krauly really is the Granddaddy of the dolphin automatic pool cleaner, in fact it’s really the granddaddy of all automatic pool cleaners, and it wasn’t born in the USA as you may expect, but in South Africa, the brain child of Ferdinand Chauvier, who himself had travelled to South Africa from the Belgian Congo.

Chauvier quickly spotted a demand for an easier and more efficient way to clean swimming pools, and in 1974, 23 years after moving to South Africa, and around ten years before the Dolphin pool cleaner came into being, the Kreepy Krauly was born.  The company is now America owned, and offers a range of other pool maintenance products, but the Kreepy Krauly itself remains true to the original concept, and while not as smart perhaps as the fully automatic, robotic pool cleaners offered by the likes of the Dolphin pool cleaner, the Kreepy Krauly is without doubt a great time saving pool servicing tool.