Hot Tub Cleaning

Your hot tub needs to be cleaned to maintain the healthy and pleasing experience it provides to you. The cleaning is in addition to the water treatment routines using chlorine and pH regulating chemicals. While these hot tub chemicals deal with the water chemistry, the cleaning deals with the surface of the water and the tub itself.

Using a skimmer to remove the floating debris is the most obvious of cleaning routines. A lot of debris from different sources tends to accumulate in the water, particularly if it is located outdoors. If your hot tub has a skimmer basket, it needs to be emptied once or more every week.

Special chemicals that are compatible with the hot tub water chemistry are often used to clean the waterline and minimise deposits of oil and debris. Household cleaners might not be compatible with hot tub water chemistry. The filters that remove much of the debris on a routine basis should be hosed and cleaned once a month.

Hot tub skirting and the cover will also need to be wiped clean if dirt has accumulated. Use a sponge to do this.

The water in the hot tub needs to be drained once a quarter and the hot tub completely cleaned before re-filling it with fresh water. While the hot tub chemicals can maintain the water in good condition for several weeks, as the level of dissolved solids in the water increases over a period of time, their efficacy tends to decrease. A complete replenishment of water, of desired properties, can help reduce chemical use in addition to giving you a fresh start.

Test the water used for refilling to ensure that it has the desired properties. Even clean water might have unacceptable pH levels, and might contain calcium and heavy metals that can affect the water quality and potentially damage your tub components.

While the issue of cleaning your hot tub might seem complicated and a big trouble, it will cease to be so once you have become familiar with the routines. Also, the pleasing experience and health benefits that a well-maintained hot tub provides will make the trouble pale in comparison.

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Hot Tub Services

These days, hot tubs are not just a wooden containers filled with hot water. Instead they are complex collection of components that provide much more than just a warm soak. They come with jets that massage different parts of the body, pumps that keep the water moving around, filters that clean the circulating water and electronic controllers that keep everything at the correct temperature and in control.

The air blowers that provide you with a bubble bath experience are another component that adds to the complexity. The plumbing of the modern hot tub is also more complex as it has to serve the water jets and air blowers in addition to draining and filling the tub.

The modern lifestyle-enhancing hot tub (or spa) also comes with lighting effects and music to keep you entertained during your soak.

Servicing the today’s hot tub requires different kinds of expertise. You need plumbing, electrical and electronic expertise. You also need detailed familiarity with the components in the hot tubs themselves and their special problems.

The task is complicated by the fact that there hot tubs in use that are made by many manufacturers with each of them supplying different models yearly. Only years of experience in the field can equip a service provider with the needed familiarity to service all the varied makes and models.

You might decide to call service providers not only when your hot tub has some problem that needs being attended to. You might prefer to avoid the tedious and time-consuming work involved in cleaning the tub, and draining and filling it. These tasks are essential to keep your hot tub experience pleasant and healthy and needs to be done at periodical intervals.

Select your hot tub services provider by checking on their capacity to for all the above tasks. Are they familiar with the particular make and model of tub that you use? Do they have the parts in stock or can they get them at short notice? What do their customers say about their service?

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Hot Tub Repair: Helpful Hints

While it is best to call in trained hot tub repair professionals to repair and service your hot tub in case of problems, some familiarity with the issues can help you brief the repair person adequately so that the person can come prepared and execute the work quickly. For the simpler issues, you might even be able to do the repair yourself.

DIY repair is not recommended where the issue is not a simple one. Electrical work could be particularly dangerous for amateurs in the presence of water. And unless the water flows are not switched off before removing any components forming part of the plumbing, the place could get more than a little messy,

Subject to the above observations, let us look at hot tub problems and simple repairs.

Hot Tub does not turn on

The typical reason is interruption in power supply to the hot tub, which could occur at several points. You would need a electrical multimeter to check availability of power and its voltage at these points. If you don’t know how to use a multimeter, it’s best you leave the electrical work to a trained person.

• Check incoming power and its voltage, which should be 110V or 220V depending on your equipment.
• If power is present and voltage is correct, check the trip switch. If it is not getting set properly (allowing current to flow) the problem could be with one of the connected components or the switch itself. Disconnect all the components and then reconnect them one by one. If the trip switch gets tripped on connecting a particular component (pump, heater, blower, etc) you might have found the problem.
• If the trip switch is okay, check the fuse. If the fuse is blown, a test like the one described for trip switch could indicate the problem. On the other hand, if the fuse gets blown even when all the components are disconnected, the problem could be with the wiring. In this case, leave the task of troubleshooting to a trained electrician.
• If the above procedures do not solve the problem, it could be related to the contactors or the control in the hot tub. Your best option is to call in your hot tub repair company and explain the problem and what you did.

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Hot Tub Service and Hot Tub Repair Man

When you need hot tub service, you have the option to call any of the repair people out there. Why should you then call a particular service firm like hottubrepairman.co.uk? The answer is best found by looking at their testimonials page:

• Professional, courteous and worked clean… You don’t get these from all service people these days.
• To be told what work was being done… Some service persons don’t want you around so that they can fabricate non-existent problems and charge you for these
• …process of elimination when at work… To hear the elimination process is to get confidence that the workers know what they are doing
• …the work they have done for us is worth every penny… Large companies typically don’t like small works; they might even charge you a sizable amount just for coming over to take a look
• …the extra advice he provided was spot on… When you get more than what you paid for, you feel it in a special way
• I was struggling to find the parts… What do you say about a company that takes the trouble to locate difficult-to-get parts from emailed pictures!
• …repair man was round my house faster than you can say Hot Tub
• …as the pumps are no longer made any more.. An obsolete pump would typically have meant changing the plumbing; hottubrepairman just “swopped some parts about” and the plumbing fitted!

Testimonials like these are hard to come by and any company that can get them is definitely worth your custom.

Repair and service people need to be highly trustworthy as they can easily conjure up many problems that need attention when actually all that is needed might be just some cleaning. And then there are service people who take days or weeks to turn up after promising immediate response.

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Hot tubs work by drawing, heating and circulating water. Naturally, this requires a well designed plumbing system to work efficiently and effectively. Water is drawn from a source, pumped through a water heater and the hot water is then carried to the hot tub through a network of tubes and jets.

Water from any source (particularly from the spa itself) is likely to contain a lot of debris and other undesirable stuff. You need to use filters to remove these before the water is returned to the spa. Filters can be suction type, i.e. connected before the pump’s water intake or pressure type, i.e. pressurized by the pump.

Suction filters can be the weir type that float to the water surface and skim the impurities or skimmer basket type. Pressure filters require a separate skimmer unit.

The water pump forces the water through a heater that heats the water to the set temperature. The heated water flows through larger tubes that end in a network of smaller tubes connected to the jets. Air induction jets mix heated water and air in desired proportions before letting the water into the spa.

The higher qualify air induction jets can eliminate the need for a separate air blower that consumes additional power. Air circulation also requires plumbing of its own, ending in the same air-induction jets that pump the water into the tub

Where an ozonator is used, the ozone jet is place low to maximize water contact. The tube that caries the ozone from the generator to the jet typically loops over the water line so that water cannot back up into the ozonator.

Air blowers also use such a loop and also incorporate a check valve that prevents water from getting into the air lines. Water in air lines can cause water leakage from the hot tub and also electrical short circuit.

Water loses its force around 90 degree bends and so it is a good idea to minimize such bends. Another good idea is to use 2 inch plumbing that can handle almost twice the quantity of water compared to 1.5 inch. The larger pipes also reduces back pressure at the pump.

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Hot Tub Parts – Part 2 – My Hot Tub

In a previous article on hot tub parts, we mentioned that the modern hot tub is a complex assembly that needs periodic maintenance and replacements of parts. A familiarity with the names and functions of the parts could make this task easier for the non-technical hot tub users. In this article, we continue the discussion looking at other parts of the hot tub assembly.

Circuit Boards: Circuit boards connect the various electronic components in a convenient manner, replacing the earlier method of using wires to connect the components. On a printed circuit board, the connections are made using etched metal lines on the board. The electronic assembly of components controls various functions of the hot tub providing the controlled experience you get.

Replacing circuit boards need special care. These boards are often of a proprietary design and you will have to find the board that works with your hot tub. You will also have to ensure that the connectors that connect the tub and board are compatible.

Air Blowers: Air blowers also known as bubblers give a bubbly feel to the water. The blower assembly consists of a fan motor and plumbing to get the blown air into the water. The plumbing has to ensure that the water do not get into the air chambers. Some experts suggest that use of air blowers should be avoided as it increases energy consumption and adds to maintenance costs.

Air blowers also come in different models and you have to make sure the replacement you buy is suitable for your hot tub.

Ozonators: Ozone gas sanitizes your spa by destroying bacteria and viruses present in the spa water. Ozone also breaks down body oils so that the water remains clear and fresh for longer periods. Using an ozonator (or ozone generator) also helps you keep the levels of chlorine in the water lower.

Ozone is generated by exposing oxygen to UV light or a “corona” discharge. The ozonator will have either a UV light bulb or a corona discharge device. The generated ozone is passed through an airline to a water jet.

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Hot Tub Repair: Common Issues

It is inevitable that at one point in time an owner will start to have problems with their hot tub. Hot tub repair can vary in difficulty. Some issues only require minor fixes, while others can be much more serious and will require the services of a repair professional.

Over time the hot tub’s filter is likely to become clogged and dirty. The dirty filter can cause the water quality to become quite poor. This can often be replaced or cleaned by the owner, but if he/she is unsure of what they are doing calling a professional is definitely a good idea.

Some more serious problems that can occur are often a result of an issue with the unit’s motor, pump, or heater. Trying to repair these problems yourself can be extremely dangerous. Also you have the potential to damage your hot tub. That is why calling a hot tub repair specialist is very important if the owner believes they are having problems with any of these parts.

The PH level and sanitizer level can often deviate from the recommended levels. Preventative maintenance is the best way to avoid having this issue. However, if after cleaning and maintaining your hot tub you are still having this problem, call a service technician as these imbalances can lead to more serious problems in the future.

Problems with the wiring of the hot tub can also cause major problems. Wiring issues usually result in a blown breaker which prevents the unit’s various components from working. It is extremely important to let a certified professional handle these issues as working on the wiring can be very dangerous.

Luckily for the owner hot tub repair does not take a significant amount of time. Certified professionals can usually fix any problem within a couple of hours. So before you know it you will be able to relax and soak in your hot tub again.

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Don’t switch your hot tub of this year because its going to be  a cold winter, a little preparation can save alot of money and an expensive repair bill, already this year we have repaired many frozen hot tubs, the pipes had cracked or broken and the hot tubs could not hold water.

The following are a few pointers to help you prepare for a long cold winter.

If possible leave the hot tub switched on, maintain the chemicals in a normal fashion, check the filter because this will still need cleaning, but reduce the temperature to around 20C (if possible) to save on electricity.

What to do if you have a problem

Stopping a hot tub from freezing if a pump breaks isnt easy because…

If you have gate valves to a leaking or tripping pump, close them and unplug the pump and call / book in an hot tub engineer.

If you cant isolate the pump unplug it and call an hot tub engineer.

If you have a leak, can the water level be maintained untill an hot tub engineer can repair repair it.

Call an experienced hot tub repair company, not a have ago hero! a good company will have all the parts on their van already and repair the problem on the day, this could save any further freezing problems.

What to do if your hot tub Freezes.

If the hot tub is frozen can it be defrosted easily?

Is the hot tub in a shed or conservatory can the room be heated?

Does the circulation pump work? if so disconnect all the other pumps and air blower, and let the circulation pump and heater slowly reheat the hot tub. (the reason for disconnecting the main pumps and air blower is is because if half the pipes of a pump are frozen the remaining pipes will have twice the pressure and blow apart or split.)

Split or broken pipe work

If the hot tub is already leaking from broken pipes, call a hot tub engineer to repair A.S.A.P. this should save other pipes and the wet ends of the pumps from cracking.

Tripping Electrics

If the electrics on the hot tub are tripping, disconnect each plugged in part until it stops, ( A single pump filtering is enough to stop the hot tub from freezing).

Fully Foamed Hot Tubs

Important – A fully foamed hot tub can still freeze and makes for a more expensive repair.

Some American brands are fully foamed apart from the compartment area, this makes for very expensive repairs on water leaks especially when the side panels are not designed to come of.

Do not leave the panels of the compartment area, the hot tub pipes will freeze quicker.

Extra Insulation

If the hot tub is working fine and you have a good cover, you don’t need any extra insulation, this would restrict the flow of air and cause damp patches and rot inside your wooden framed hot tub.

New hot tub Cover

The time to buy a new hot tub cover is just before winter, the reason for this is it will hold more heat, stop steam and evaporation and save alot of money.

If you have a new cover you may need to reinforce it if the snow gets deep and heavy.

How to reinforce a hot tub cover

Lay planks of wood across the length of the cover, overlapping the ends slightly.

Put a sheet of plywood on top of this.

Filling with hot water

Do not fill a hot tub with hot water, this will instantly crack your plumbing, instead half fill and then top up with hot water, diluting the water in the middle of the hot tub.

Always fill the first half of the hot tub by putting the hose down the filter tube, this will remove air locks and stop the heater from burning out.

If topping up with hot water fill from the middle and slowly increase the water temperature.

Winterising – using antifreeze

So far antifreeze in a hot tub is not proven to work, it is very difficult to get the little bit of water the sit inside the plumbing of a hot tub.

Keep the hot tub switched on at a low temperature and control the chemicals.

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