There are three hot tub maintenance rules. Every hot tub owner needs to follow, and once you understand how to manage these three basic concepts you'll be able to keep your hot tub clean and clear without a ton of troubleshooting. So here are the three basic hot tub: maintenance rules check it out now before we get into hot tub maintenance, it helps to know your spa's vital statistics. This includes things like your spa's maximum water capacity and your spas age.

Your owner's manual will be your best friend here, but if you don't know where that is, a quick google search can help. You'll also want to know about any specific water challenges in your area, such as hard water. This is where a hose filter comes in handy when you're filling up your hot tub. Okay, let's dive into the three basic rules of hot tub maintenance.

If you maintain good water circulation, stick to a simple cleaning schedule and balance your water chemistry, you can avoid a lot of hot tub problems like cloudy water and hot tub foam. So, let's walk through each one of the three rules and what you need to do for each one. Rule number one maintain good hot tub circulation. Circulating your hot tubs water helps, keep it free of contaminants when your water circulates it passes through your hot tub's cartridge filters.

Depending on the model of your spa, you may have an automatic circulation schedule. These cycles circulate the water for around 15 to 20 minutes once or twice a day. Cycling it through your filters, but if your hot tub doesn't have an automatic cycle and you're not using your hot tub daily turn on your spa for 15 to 20 minutes at least once a day to ensure your water's been refreshed. Proper circulation means keeping your filters clean too.

Whenever your hot tub's running your filters are working and a good, clean filter means a good, clean, hot tub to take care of your filters, rinse them every one to two weeks with warm water or a garden hose at least once a month spray. Your hot tub filters with a hot tub filter cleaner for a deeper clean. Finally, every three to four months you'll want to soak your filters in a chemical cleaner. Now, when your filters get to the point where even a chemical soak can't get them clean, it's time to replace them, luckily they're not too expensive.

Finally, there are some things filters can't remove from the water like body, oils, lotions and soap. Believe it or not. You can add tennis balls to your hot tub after you're done using it. The fluffy fibers on the tennis ball will soak up contaminants and help keep your water clean.

So, to recap: maintaining good hot tub circulation means running your hot tub for at least 15 to 20 minutes a day, so the water passes through your filters, keeping your filters clean with a rinse every week, a spray at least every month and a chemical soak. Every quarter and adding tennis balls to the water to soak up, what's missed by your filter, rule number two stick to a simple hot tub: cleaning schedule: cleaning your hot tub is an obvious part of hot tub maintenance. But a simple cleaning schedule can remove a lot of the guesswork and prevent a lot of issues like scum and cloudy water each week. You'll want to do the following test: your hot tub water check, your alkalinity, ph and sanitizer levels.

You'll also need to test your levels again after you adjust them sanitize and shock your water regularly shocking your hot tub, recharges your sanitizer and keeps your hot tub healthy, rinse, your hot tub filter with water. Like we mentioned, a clean filter, protects against cloudy water. Funky smells bacteria and algae blooms. Wipe down your spa cover, cleaning the cover inside and out protects against mold mildew and the nasty smells they bring.

Use a 10 bleach solution to keep mildew at bay, wipe down your spas, shell and jets, and any scum line at the water's edge with a sponge and some white vinegar wipe away any debris that might throw off your water chemistry and don't forget to wipe down The head rests, while weekly cleaning will help with most hot tub issues. You'll want to completely drain and clean your hot tub every three to four months. Think about your hot tub like a giant bathtub. Even if you're cleaning your hot tub regularly, the water is gon na get old, so be sure to check out our walkthrough video on how to drain and clean your hot tub.

Rule number three balance: your hot tubs, water chemistry. If your water is circulating and your hot tub surfaces are clean, balancing your hot tub's water is the final piece now before you add any chemicals to your spot, you need to get a baseline reading of what your water chemistry is. So you'll want to test your ph alkalinity and sanitizer levels for your ph aim for between 7.4 to 7.6, with 7.5 being ideal. If your water is below this range and too acidic, it might eat away your hardware and will likely irritate your skin and eyes and if it's above this range and too basic, the water will reduce its sanitizer's effectiveness and could turn cloudy.

Now, for your alkalinity aim between 100 and 150 parts per million, if your alkalinity gets too high, it can cause scaling and cloudiness. Now your ph and alkalinity affect one another. So if you're having issues be sure to check out our video explaining how to balance the two next you'll want to add a sanitizer to your hot tub. According to the directions on the package, and after you add your sanitizer test again to make sure that your ph and alkalinity are within optimal ranges, you can speed up the mix rate of your chemicals and also heat your hot tub faster by turning off the air Valves, if you're deciding between whether or not to use chlorine or bromine a lot of hot tub owners prefer bromine, it's more stable, which means, if you use chlorine you'll, have to add it more frequently to your hot tub and bromine doesn't have that chlorine smell.

Finally, you'll want to add shock once a week to your hot tub. This helps revitalize your sanitizer and, if you're, using your spa after a long period of inactivity or you've, been using it heavily. It's a good idea to shock your hot tub. We recommend using a non-chlorine based hot tub shock now when it comes to keeping your water balanced.

The key is testing test your water every week, either with test strips or a liquid test kit and adjust your water chemistry as necessary. Finally, it's important to keep a good supply of essential chemicals on hand, so you can tweak your water as needed. You'll want ph increaser, ph decreaser alkalinity increaser sanitizer, like chlorine or bromine shock, and test strips following these basic rules of hot tub. Maintenance you'll find that keeping your hot tub clean and clear is easy, and that means more time to actually enjoy your hot tub and, if you're looking for an easy to follow, tutorial, that'll answer all your hot tub questions go check out our hot tub handbook and Video course you'll get in-depth video lessons, plus a step-by-step downloadable guide, covering everything that you need to know about: hot tub maintenance, it's packed with money, saving tips, so you can save money and time keeping your hot tub clean.

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