How To Clean The Water In A Hot Tub

Happy Hot Tub Intendance Guide

When you own and utilize your own hot tub it is essential to go along it make clean and clear of bacteria for a safe and pleasant bathing experience. The basic elements that go into maintaining and balancing your hot tub water are sanitiser, pH adjusters and stupor treatments. This handy booklet will guide you through everything you need to know.

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hot tub care guide

Sanitiser

Your hot tub will need to be treated with a Sanitiser to control and foreclose bacteria growth. Bacteria can multiply speedily in a hot surroundings, so you must maintain an appropriate sanitiser level to ensure any bacteria in the water is killed. At that place are 2 principal sanitisers available to go along your hot tub make clean and these are chlorine and bromine.

Option Ane – Chlorine

Chlorine is the most pop choice amid hot tub users as it is the well-nigh price effective and fast acting sanitiser bachelor. Chlorine is available in granules or tablets.

CHLORINE Granules – Chlorine can be added by sprinkling the chlorine granules over the h2o surface, or past pre- diluting in a container of warm water. We advise you lot add together chlorine in small amounts to start (unless the level is very low), to prevent over dosing. So leave the h2o for well-nigh 2 hours, earlier retesting. This volition give time for the chlorine to work, so if the h2o is very muddied then all the chlorine volition be used upward, and you will have some other depression reading. If the water is properly counterbalanced then a chlorine remainder will remain, and no more need be added.

HAPPY HINT: Add a sprinkle of chlorine each fourth dimension you go out of your hot tub and it will be make clean and ready for use next fourth dimension you want a dip!

CHLORINE Tablets – You can besides add chlorine by putting tablets in a floating dispenser. The benefit of this is that at that place is chlorine existence dispensed constantly, however it does give less control than using granules. We advise yous start by calculation 3-four tablets and adjusting the dispenser flow as necessary. The Happy hot tub dispenser base can be twisted to suit the flow of water into the unit of measurement. Only twist the base to allow h2o menstruum through i hole, two holes, three holes or four holes. There should ever be tablets in the dispenser, then DO Non leave them until they are completely depleted before replacing. Re-examination the h2o once more in approximately 2 hours to run across if the level has been raised sufficiently.

HAPPY HINT: For safety remove your floating dispenser when your spa is in use.

Option 2 – Bromine

Bromine is an alternative sanitiser to chlorine. It is more expensive and slower interim which means it takes longer
to bear witness a reading when testing and tin can result in cloudy water. Benefits include having a slightly softer odour, being much more stable in higher water temperatures and it is able to regenerate different chlorine (meaning y'all tin can keep reactivating bromide salts using a shock, reducing your need to add together sanitiser). To use bromine tablets, simply follow the same instructions as chlorine tablets (above). You can also boost bromine levels with bromine granules or past shocking with Non Chlorine Shock.

HAPPY WARNING: Never add water to chemicals, always add chemicals to water!

Salt Systems

Many hot tubs now use salt systems to sanitise the water. Systems such as the HotSpring Freshwater Salt System use common salt water to generate chlorine and active oxygen, which in turn kills bacteria. The benefit of these systems include added convenience and more than natural feeling water.

How to bank check your Sanitiser level

To test your sanitiser level dip a Happy Test Strip in the spa h2o about 12 inches/30cm under the water level, following the instructions on the test strip container, and compare the colour to the chart on the test strip bottle. (Happy Exam Strips come in handy pots of 50).

The corporeality of chemical in hot tubs is normally measured in PPM, which stands for Parts per Million. If you are a chlorine user, keep the chlorine level at between three-5ppm. If you are a bromine user, try to keep your bromine level between two-5ppm.

Every hot tub owner uses his / her hot tub differently, so information technology is impossible to say how much sanitiser is required. Therefore nosotros recommend that you exam your sanitiser and PH level as often as possible and adjust accordingly, but you may wish to reduce these checks to every few days if y'all observe your water doesn't need adjusting that often. However if your usage increases then return to daily checks.

HAPPY HINT: Hold your test strip horizontally to avert the colours running into each other!

PH Level

The term pH is a way of describing whether your water is acidic or alkaline. The pH scale works from 0-xiv with 7 being neutral. Anything below 7 is classed as acidic, and anything above seven is considered alkaline. Y'all must keep your pH level within the range of seven.ii to 7.viii, and ideally 7.2 to seven.4 or you may experience some of the following issues:

Mutual low pH problems:

Corrosion of components
Skin and heart irritation
Poor sanitiser efficiency (you lot keep adding more sanitiser)

Common loftier pH levels problems:

Scale build upward
Cloudy water
Skin and center irritation
Poor sanitiser efficiency (you keep calculation more sanitiser)

If the pH level is incorrect you volition accept problems balancing your sanitiser level, so always arrange this prior to adding sanitiser (but never run the spa without sanitiser in the water). To test your pH level, dip a Happy Test Strip in the spa h2o, following the instructions on the examination strip container, and suit accordingly by adding pH Minus or pH Plus.

HAPPY HINT: Correct pH levels will stop scale build-up in your spa pipework and pumps

Check out our more detailed guide - Balancing Hot Tub Alkalinity and PH

Shock Treatments

In improver to whichever sanitiser you cull to use, it is recommended to "daze" dose or oxidise your water every week with a non-chlorine shock treatment.

Stupor dosing is required to do the following:

Pause down Chloramines – sanitiser reacts with bather pollutants such as perspiration or dead skin, and produces a less effective chemical compound called chloramines which needs to be cleaved down. Chloramines have a strong chlorine odour that is often mistaken for too much chlorine, and make the water appear cloudy.
Kill bacteria – some bacteria tin become resistant to your sanitiser, so the shock handling volition destroy any remaining bacteria.
Remove organic compounds – people carry organic compounds on their pare, such equally expressionless skin and oils. These can accrue in the hot tub and crusade cloudy water, simply stupor treatment volition remove them.

Yous tin shock dose your water using Happy Non Chlorine Shock, Relax Oxidise Sachets or Shock Gems® which offer a simple pod formula to throw into your hot tub!

HAPPY HINT: A capful of Non Chlorine Daze a calendar week volition help go on your water clear!

Bank check out our more detailed guide - What is Non Chlorine Shock and What Does it Exercise?

Water Changing

H2o tin can only be chemically maintained for and so long before excess build-up occurs and it needs replacing.

We recommend changing your h2o ever 3-four months depending on usage. We suggest that you use Happy Hot Tubs Flush or Clean Get-go pipe cleaner prior to elimination the hot tub. This volition remove any dirt/debris and loosen any calcium from the pipage work, which will and so be washed abroad with the tuckered water. Before y'all refill your tub, we recommend using Happy Spa Surface Cleaner to clean the spa beat out.

HAPPY HINT: Ask virtually our Spa Fresh Service and we will do your h2o modify for you.

Filter Intendance

What exercise the filters do?

The surface of the water is skimmed into the filter box, and through filter cartridges to remove dirt and debris.

How often should I clean my filters?

This volition depend on your usage, but we recommend you clean them at least one time every fortnight. Heavy usage such as parties will mean your filters clog up quicker. However the situation is different when you fill your spa for the outset time, or whenever you drain and refill your spa. In this case the filters may clog up within three–four days because of the pocket-sized particles contained in tap water and any particles from manufacturing/transport.

What volition happen if I don't clean my filters regularly enough?

It is VERY of import that the filters are cleaned regularly otherwise the water menses will be restricted and the spa will automatically close down. The following diagnostic messages may appear on your bear upon pad if your filters are muddy; FLO, Heater Dry, LF, DR, OHH, or -- (two lines).

To confirm that the filters are the crusade of the problem, remove them and run the spa for a few minutes to see if the message clears. If the bulletin nevertheless does non clear, then try switching the spa off whilst the filters are removed, and then dorsum on over again. Delight annotation that you MUST NOT run the spa for long periods without filters. If the bulletin however appears later trying these measures, so please telephone call 02380 812769 for further advice.

How do I clean my filters?

The quickest way to clean them is using Happy Instant Filter Cleaner. To do this, spray the filter evenly with the instant filter cleaner, wait xv minutes then rinse the filter with a hose. To make rinsing easier, check out the Happy Hot Tubs Super Blaster which is a useful tool to clean multiple pleats at once!

Another way to clean your filters is to soak them in a bucket overnight with Happy Filter Cleaner solution. This solution breaks down oils from the pleats and gives the filter a deep make clean. With both of these techniques, it is recommended

to let the filter to dry as this resets the fibres in the filter media, making filtration more constructive when the filter is put back into your hot tub.

You MUST Not run the spa for long periods without the filters, so fit a spare set immediately when you lot remove the existing ones for cleaning.

HAPPY HINT: Put your spare filters in and let the cleaned ones dry before using.

Other Water Products

What other products might I need to keep my tub in premium status?

Happy No Cream – Available as a liquid or a spray.
This product will reduce the tendency of the spa h2o to foam, simply it will not always finish information technology entirely. Foam is created every bit a reaction to natural oils in our skin, equally well every bit contaminants such equally remnants of detergents in swimwear, cosmetics and deodorants, etc. Showering with your swimwear on before inbound the h2o will help reduce foam.

Happy Spa Sparkle – This will help articulate cloudy h2o and make your water sparkle. It is a coagulant, which means it will assemble small particles in the water together so they are caught in the filters.

Happy No Scale – This production is needed in difficult water areas to prevent the calcium build upwards to form scale on the spa equipment and fittings