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I am getting ready to start the hot tub up for the winter. What do I need in the form of chemicals from the start up?
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First thing everytime you put new water into your hot tub or pool is you have to balance the water. First test your alaklinity. It needs to be between 80-120ppm. You cna adujst it upwards by adding Baking soda (Sodium Bicarbonate/Sodium hydrogen carbonate) next adjust the ph to 7.2-7.8. YOU want it as close as you can to 7.4-7.5. Next adjust the Calcium level to 250ppm-400ppm, by adding Calicum Carbonate (Hardness increaser). After all of th add your sanitizer, being Bromine 35 ppm, or Chlorine 1-3ppm. I hope you have a CD ozonater and perhaps a mineral stick also of copper or silver. I really like using a non-cholrine shock...MPS. Of course there's are othersanitizers like biguinde and hydrogen peroxide for a shock by Baquaspa or Bioguard. I am not a fan of them, especially if you have any kind of breathing issues.
If possible take you water to a hot tub store and have them test it. I cannot stress ths step enough since then you will have a nice computerized record 6x a year showing you have nice perfectly balanced water then when the heater goes you will be able to not let the manufacture say your heater was destroyed form improper water chemistry.
The more things you use too by the way that are not needed if your water is perfectly balanced like water clarifier, fragrances and foam dispensers will cause more peoblems by dreating more total disolved solids to be in the water there fore making it harder to balance and keep clean. Be sure to clean your filters properly with a filter cleaner. Bromine is more stable at high temperatures then chlorine.
First thing everytime you put new water into your hot tub or pool is you have to balance the water. First test your alaklinity. It needs to be between 80-120ppm. You cna adujst it upwards by adding Baking soda (Sodium Bicarbonate/Sodium hydrogen carbonate) next adjust the ph to 7.2-7.8. YOU want it as close as you can to 7.4-7.5. Next adjust the Calcium level to 250ppm-400ppm, by adding Calicum Carbonate (Hardness increaser). After all of th add your sanitizer, being Bromine 35 ppm, or Chlorine 1-3ppm. I hope you have a CD ozonater and perhaps a mineral stick also of copper or silver. I really like using a non-cholrine shock...MPS. Of course there's are othersanitizers like biguinde and hydrogen peroxide for a shock by Baquaspa or Bioguard. I am not a fan of them, especially if you have any kind of breathing issues.
If possible take you water to a hot tub store and have them test it. I cannot stress ths step enough since then you will have a nice computerized record 6x a year showing you have nice perfectly balanced water then when the heater goes you will be able to not let the manufacture say your heater was destroyed form improper water chemistry.
The more things you use too by the way that are not needed if your water is perfectly balanced like water clarifier, fragrances and foam dispensers will cause more peoblems by dreating more total disolved solids to be in the water there fore making it harder to balance and keep clean. Be sure to clean your filters properly with a filter cleaner. Bromine is more stable at high temperatures then chlorine.
Hot Tub...?
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2004 Bahia, Sundance hot tub. It was 6 grand and a couple hundred when I bought it brand new, used but in good condition, it looks new on the inside and outside and works great, I'll sell it with the orignal cover and step stool; how much do you think it is worth?
Answer
I have to agree with the answerer "anawesom" above me. Spas have little value on the secondary market. I have one myself and looked at used ones before I invested into my new one. The warranties now cover everything and no one wants to buy potential problems and have the inconvenience of finding a way to move it from your location to theirs. Plus, most spa stores around here take back used spas in trade when their customers upgrade. So they have huge sales on reconditioned spas, include delivery and set up, locking spa covers, stairs, 90 days worth of chemicals and give you a warranty as well. My neighbor has been trying to sell his very well maintained $8,000 (new) spa for around $1200 for at least a year and has only had 1 person even bother to come out to take a look at it and he went to the reconditioned factory sale to buy the same spa there.
I have to agree with the answerer "anawesom" above me. Spas have little value on the secondary market. I have one myself and looked at used ones before I invested into my new one. The warranties now cover everything and no one wants to buy potential problems and have the inconvenience of finding a way to move it from your location to theirs. Plus, most spa stores around here take back used spas in trade when their customers upgrade. So they have huge sales on reconditioned spas, include delivery and set up, locking spa covers, stairs, 90 days worth of chemicals and give you a warranty as well. My neighbor has been trying to sell his very well maintained $8,000 (new) spa for around $1200 for at least a year and has only had 1 person even bother to come out to take a look at it and he went to the reconditioned factory sale to buy the same spa there.
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