The Hot Water Environment

The same factors that make our spas attractive to us: warm, wet, and bubbly, can also make a poorly maintained hot tub attractive to microbes. Some of these can make us sick. Hot water opens our pores and allows microbes an easier route to possible infection. We can inhale contaminated water droplets made airborne by the spa jets.

Hot tubs are not small swimming pools.

Due to their warmer water temperatures, lower water volume, and higher bather loads, a little extra care must be taken to properly maintain hot tub water quality. Maintaining a healthy spa is really quite easy, takes just a few minutes out of your busy schedule, and will help prevent problems.

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Posted: February 23rd, 2011 under Spa Maintenence.
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Even a seasoned hot tub enthusiast can find the actual practice of keeping spa water healthy and free of harmful microorganisms a little daunting, especially when faced with the myriad products available to spa owners today. Understanding the big picture, and then breaking it down into manageable pieces will relieve even a new hot tub owner from feeling overwhelmed. Hot tub maintenance can be divided into three basic steps; keeping the equipment clean, balancing and treating the water, and maintaining the sanitizing agent.

Keep the Spa Clean

Over time, spa water can get chemically saturated and become resistant to regular upkeep. Regardless of spa brand or sanitizer system being used, all hot tub water must be replaced periodically. The timing for draining and refilling the spa with fresh water can vary, depending greatly on bather load. Optimally, the water should be changed every 60 – 90 days.

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Posted: December 15th, 2009 under Spa Maintenence.
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After a hard day’s work, nothing sounds better than to take a nice relaxing soak in the hot tub. An ozone generator, or ozonator in the spa can add to that enjoyment, as it produces a powerful natural oxidizer with many benefits.

How does it work?

Ozonators use intense UV light, or corona discharge (CD) to split individual oxygen molecules into free oxygen atoms. As newly freed oxygen atoms collide with oxygen molecules, ozone is created. Ozone’s extra oxygen atom is loosely bound, breaking loose when coming in contact with organic material or other contaminants, oxidizing and destroying them.

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Posted: August 14th, 2008 under Spa Maintenence.
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