Your pool cleaner has been doing a half-job this whole time. The floor looks fine. But the surface? That's where all the real mess lives.

Here's something nobody talks about enough. All those leaves sitting on top of the water, the film of sunscreen left behind after a big Sunday swim, the oily residue that catches the light in that way that makes you quietly cringe when guests arrive - your regular robotic pool cleaner is completely ignoring all of it. It trundles around the bottom doing its thing, comes up for air, and the surface stays exactly as it was. You still have to net it yourself, or just pretend it isn't there. Neither option is great.

This is the problem the BeatBot Sora 70 was built to solve. It cleans the bottom, it climbs the walls, and then it does something no standard cleaner bothers with - it cleans the surface of the water too. The whole pool. Top to bottom, corner to corner. That's not a small thing. If you've ever spent fifteen minutes with a leaf net on a Monday morning when you could have been doing literally anything else, you'll understand immediately why this matters.

The Sora 70 is cordless, which removes one of the most common frustrations with robotic cleaners - cords that tangle, restrict movement, and generally cause grief. Without a cord, the cleaner moves freely around the entire pool, getting into the spots a tethered machine simply can't reach. It's powered by a strong onboard battery and delivers serious suction for its size. You drop it in, and it gets on with the job.

Control is handled through an app on your phone. You can set schedules, choose cleaning modes, check in on what it's doing, and pull it out when the job is done - all without being poolside. For anyone managing an Airbnb, a holiday rental, or a strata property, that kind of remote oversight is genuinely useful. You don't need to be there. You just need to know it's sorted.

The surface cleaning is the headline feature, and it deserves a proper explanation. The Sora 70 has a dedicated surface skimming function that actively collects debris, oils, and residue floating on the water. This is the layer that makes a pool look neglected even when the water chemistry is perfect. Sunscreen, body oils, pollen, fine dust, the sheen left behind after a warm Newcastle afternoon - it all sits at the surface. A standard cleaner won't touch it. The Sora 70 deals with it as part of the regular clean cycle, so you're not left doing the manual work the robot should be handling.

For all-pool types - fibreglass, concrete, vinyl liner - the Sora 70 is built to work across the lot. The wall-climbing function is strong and reliable, which matters for anyone with a pool that has algae build-up on the waterline or grime sitting on the wall tiles. It doesn't just pass by the walls on the way to the surface. It cleans them properly.

The price is $2,295. That's a real number worth sitting with for a moment. This is not a budget cleaner, and it doesn't pretend to be. But if you're currently spending an hour a week maintaining a pool that still never looks quite right, or you're paying someone to come out regularly, or you're losing Airbnb reviews because the pool wasn't guest-ready in time - the maths shifts pretty quickly. A cleaner that actually finishes the whole job, runs on a schedule, and needs almost no input from you is worth more than a cheap one that does half the work and costs you time regardless.

Pooling together everything the Sora 70 does - surface cleaning, wall climbing, full floor coverage, cordless movement, app control, and wide pool compatibility - there isn't another standard robotic cleaner in this price range that touches the surface at all. That's the gap it fills. And once you've seen a pool that's been cleaned properly from top to bottom, you'll notice every pool that hasn't been.

The BeatBot Sora 70 is now in stock at Poolside Newcastle. Come in and have a look, ask us any questions about how it works, or get in touch and we'll walk you through whether it's the right fit for your pool. We're not here to push gear at people - we'd rather you leave with the right cleaner than the wrong one. But if your pool has a surface problem and you're tired of dealing with it yourself, this one's worth a serious look.

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