Maintain Spa Water Chemistry

Maintaining spa water quality is easier than you think spa water is typically heated at 96 degrees fahrenheit to 104 degrees fahrenheit making it an ideal breeding ground for infection and disease causing microorganisms such as bacteria viruses protozoans and fungi.

Maintain spa water chemistry.

Test your water every week either with test strips or a liquid test kit and adjust your water chemistry as necessary. Balance water chemistry by adjusting its ta and ph with compounds such as alkalinity increaser ph decrease and ph increase. Keep up with water chemistry if you ve read the secret to hot tub chemistry post you already know thesecret of spa care and cleaner water. The hardness level of spa water measured as the amount of dissolved calcium is also important.

Use these results and make small adjustments to ph alkalinity calcium hardness and sanitizer levels regularly. To bring the ph level down you would use spa down. Once your spa is filled the next step in the hot tub start up process is adding chemicals to your spa for the first time. Remember to re balance your water s chemistry and rebuild the sanitizer levels or bromine bank after refilling.

But the great thing about hot tubs is that they re easier to drain and refill than a pool. The great thing about maintaining spa chemistry is that if things go really bad you can always replace the water and start fresh. The ideal ph range for spas is 7 2 to 7 8. Most issues with things like scaling and unbalanced chemicals are usually due to the minerals in the water supply.

If the ph reading is above 7 8 it means the water is basic or alkaline. That s why i always recommend starting off right by using your pre filter to fill your hot tub. Check spa water with a test strip for proper ph and sanitation levels. Adjust accordingly to the proper levels of 7 4 7 6 ph and 2 4 ppm free chlorine.

Insufficient calcium hardness can sometimes promote equipment corrosion and also result in water foaming problems. To correct this you would add spa up. In this episode of master spas tv shane will provide step by step hot tub start up chemical instructions including how to test hot tub water what chemicals to add to the hot tub and the importance of adding chemicals in a specific order. It is especially important to maintain the right chemical levels in your hot tub because your spa equipment will corrode if the chemical levels are too high and bacteria can take over if the chemical levels are too low.

Make shocking a regular part of your scheduled hot tub maintenance to keep your water safe and clean. People should not enter the spa if the water is cloudy if total chlorine levels are above 5ppm or if no chlorine levels are present. Destruction of total alkalinity. Skin and eye irritations.

Any reading below 7 2 means your water is acidic. Keep a good supply of essential chemicals on hand so you ll be ready to tweak your water as needed.