Pool brush cleaning path calculator

Calculate required lengthwise passes and brushing path with your own figures.

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Examples

Examples

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Rectangular surface length (m)
10
Surface width (m)
5
Brush effective width (m)
0.3
Adjacent pass overlap (m)
0.05
Measured brushing speed (m/min)
5
Required lengthwise passes
20
Brushing path (m)
200
Estimated brushing time (minutes)
40

Try another scenario

Rectangular surface length (m)
11
Surface width (m)
5
Brush effective width (m)
0.3
Adjacent pass overlap (m)
0.05
Measured brushing speed (m/min)
5
Required lengthwise passes
20
Brushing path (m)
220
Estimated brushing time (minutes)
44
Calculation method

Calculation method

Required lengthwise passes

Passes=max(1,ceil((width-brushWidth)/(brushWidth-overlap))+1); path=passes×length.

Brushing path (m)

Passes=max(1,ceil((width-brushWidth)/(brushWidth-overlap))+1); path=passes×length.

Estimated brushing time (minutes)

Passes=max(1,ceil((width-brushWidth)/(brushWidth-overlap))+1); path=passes×length.

Symbols and units
a
Rectangular surface length (m)
b
Surface width (m)
c
Brush effective width (m)
d
Adjacent pass overlap (m)
e
Measured brushing speed (m/min)

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Assumptions & limits

Assumptions & limits

  • Parallel strips, no transition travel or curved-wall allowance. Supported limits: All required fields must be finite values of the exact declared type and within displayed bounds. Lists contain1–1000 finite numbers. JSON tables are numeric rectangular rows, at most100 rows and30 columns; individual tools have stricter shape/domain constraints. Parallel strips, no transition travel or curved-wall allowance.
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