Hopefully we're not the first to tell you that owning a Hot Tub, just like a
car or beautiful garden requires periodic maintenance and upkeep.
While there's
lots of products to greatly help reduce the amount of chemical use and maintenance
time, NOTHING will make your Hot Tub totally maintenance and chemical free.
Without a doubt, the most important aspect of Hot Tub care is the chemical balance
of the water. You might even say that adjusting the chemical balance of your
Hot Tub water is like feeding it. Feed your Hot Tub right and it will be healthy,
feed it wrong and it'll get sick. And you know what doctor bills are like.
The important to remember is that a Hot Tub is very different from a swimming
pool (four people in a Hot Tub is the equivalent to having 300 people in an average
size pool). With the combination of high temperatures and ratio of people to
water, problems can occur.
Residual soaps, deodorants, perfumes and other cosmetics, natural body oils and
perspiration are released into the Hot Tub water which can cause other organic
contaminates. For this reason you should use products that are especially formulated
for Hot Tub and hot tub use. Hot Tub water testing is much easier and painless
than you may imagine.
What's more, regularly Hot Tub water testing and adjusting will increase the
life of your Hot Tub and it's equipment. |
