Whether you want to have recreational or
therapeutic pleasure, using your own hot tub is far more than a luxury you need
to learn to live with. As a potential homeowner you might be shying away from
buying a hot tub or spa, thinking that its maintenance will be complicated and time
taking. Fortunately, installing a new spa
or hot tub in your home and keeping the perfect balance of hot tubs chemical in
the tub water doesn't call for a technical degree. Most of the hot tubs need
weekly care and maintenance after being established and used, and are likely to
add enjoyment to your life and value to your home. Spa water test kits are
available in market to make your hot tub maintenance easier and simpler by giving
a chance to focus on everything you have to calculate and understand the proper
levels of alkalinity and hot tubs chemical in water, making it lot easier for
you to decide any alterations you have to make.
1. Let the
hot tub get filled with water and wait until the temperature of water becomes
80°F.
2. Be sure to add the water with enzyme-based tub
water cleaner together with 2 oz of stain and mineral scale control hot tubs
chemical for each 500 gallons of tub water.
3. Check the tub water's alkalinity level before making any
adjustment to maintain the pH levels; Use alkalinity decreasing or increasing
chemicals, as required, to attain an alkalinity ranging from100 to 150 ppm. Add
only 1 ounce of hot tubs chemical for alkaline adjustment at a time and keep the
water cycled for half one hour before rechecking it. Remember that tub water’s total
alkalinity and pH level are different things, even though they are somehow related.
If the readings of the tub’s total alkalinity are beyond the approved range,
then it will be very hard to maintain its pH levels.
4. Use the PH test strips from the spa test kit to
check the pH level of your tub water and find out how
close it is to the desired level (7.2 to 8.2). If the pH level falls out of this
range, add ½ ounce of hot tubs chemical for pH decreasing or increasing at a
time, again permitting it to cycle of half an hour before looking to check its
pH level once more.
5. Choose a Bromine
or chlorine tub water sanitizer and put it into the spa. Add liquid chlorine or
bromine directly to the tub water, or keep bromine tablets in the submersed
dispenser system. Wait around 30 minutes before looking to test the tub water, keep
adding half ounce of chlorine or bromine more each time until the quantity of chlorine
or bromine in the water reaches in between 3 to 5 ppm. Whatever tub water sanitizer
you pick up, be sure to add it to the hot tub along with a spa shock treatment
(potassium monopersulfate) for getting better result.
6. Check the
tub water every week to decide its alkalinity and pH, and make adjustment to
them as required. Test the quantity of water sanitizer, and adjust it to keep
the chlorine or bromine in the range of 3 to 5 ppm. If there is no ozonator in
your spa or hot tub, you will have to add a specific amount of stain and mineral
scale control hot tubs chemical to the tub water in every week. Also add water
clarifier (2 ounces) if your hot tub water is unclear.
Since different shape and size of hot tubs
carry different quantity of water, the hot tubs chemical amount for them will
not be same. So, keep following the instructions on the tub water chemicals you
use for the kind and size of hot tub you have. In addition to this, mix
powdered or dry granular chemicals into spa water taken in a bucket to mix them
properly and put the chemicals of the bucket water into the tub.
As you have learnt how to add the tub
chemicals properly, you can now order the desired hot tubs chemical from Cedar Tubs Direct. It will deliver you the
quality products at the reasonable price.
