Hot Tub Maintenance Blog

6 easy to follow steps to keep your hot tub filters clean!

Phosphate is often the determining factor in whether microorganisms like algae and bacteria grow. Follow these easy steps to remove them from your hot tub.

5 Tips for Crystal Clear Hot Tub Water

1. Shower before entering the hot tub

2. Avoid skin care products in the hot tub

3. Clean your filter

4. Keep your sanitizer levels up

5. Change the water regularly

Saltwater hot tubs use a generator to convert salt in the water to bromine or chlorine. It's important to carefully maintain water balance of alkalinity, PH, salt and calcium.

Minerals can help maintain water quality and clarity. A weekly addition of minerals will also help reduce algae or biofilm. Your hot tub will require less sanitizer. It's still necessary to balance the PH and use some sanitizer to keep the water safe.

A short article about choosing hot tub sanitizers.

It's important to keep your hot tub PH properly balanced. Read this article and find out why!

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A short article about how to use Stain and Scale in your hot tub.

How to remove Biofilm from a hot tub:

Biofilm is a rapidly reproducing colony of microorganisms surrounded by their protective slime in an aqueous environment. They grow on surfaces where water doesn’t flow and prefer environments where water is stagnant and void of sanitizer. In hot tubs, they are often found in the pipes where the water flow has been stopped or dramatically reduced (i.e. diverter valves isolate certain therapy returns, waterfalls where flow has been shut off, etc.). Biofilm is noticeable after water flow is returned to isolated pipes and is ‘blown’ back into the hot tub in the form of floating particulate that appears as tiny pieces of ‘skin’ or torn up pieces of tissue paper.

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