How to maintain your inflatable spa easily! (Intex, Coleman, Bestway)
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- Опубликовано: 11 дек 2023
- in this video Rob explains a very simple method of maintaining your inflatable spa's water using chemicals that can be bought at the grocery store along with scheduled water changes.
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Link to online pool calculator I used: poolchemicalcalculator.com/Po...
Your video is great. Clear, simple and relevant. Thank you😊
Thank GOD for your video. As a busy, working mom of 5 with a very long daily work commute, I just don't have the time to become a chemist just to relax. I always wondered, " why can't I just use bleach?". You are the best for taking the time to share your wisdom. Love you so much for making my life a little more some to add some much needed R & R. Thank you so much!!!!
Ahh, what a wonderful comment! I made the video precisely because I see people overthinking chemistry, getting stressed and in the end winding up with fouled water. Bleach is simply chlorine, we have customers that also use it in their swimming pools although with pools since you're not changing the water there is a bit more chemistry to tend to but for hot tubs there's really no need. Glad you enjoyed it and it helped, I had someone else comment on a forum they watched the video and it saved them as well, been doing it for months now and their water is always fresh and clean.
Very informative and easy to follow.
Thanks, the goal is really to provide simple easy to follow videos without anything that isn't necessary.
Great video thank you! Saw your post in the Inflatable Hot Tub Owners group.👍👏👏😁
I was watching your winterization video earlier. I had fun making this, I never read from a script or really made a video with much production so it was both learning and hopefully something a few people might find and use to make their spa experience more enjoyable. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@BobsPoolService Thank you and excellent job and very good editing!!👍
Nice job rob! Great production! God, those raspberries got huge in the background =)
The berries have taken over for sure! We got crops all summer long too, what you see there is after I pruned them as well. Thanks for the comment.
I love your video and have seriously watched it like ten times! Thank you for helping me understand maintenance for my new inflatable spa (177 gal)! Question: I have added the proper amount of bleach several times and at first, the levels were great but after the first couple times, I can't seem to keep the chlorine up. Is it because my CYA is too high (about 150 ppm)? I want to keep adding bleach but I read that adding more chlorine can increase CYA and CYA can cause the FC to be low?! Is that true?
So adding bleach will not increase your CYA (cyanuric acid). It's known as an unstabilized chlorine. Trichlor tablets increase your CYA and yes, a high level of CYA can be problematic but not in the way you described. If your CYA is too high your chlorine will still read just as it always has HOWEVER the high CYA will make the chlorine ineffective unless the level is very high (not good). If you're only adding bleach to your tub as I do I can't figure out why your CYA would be high like that. CYA has one job and that is to protect your chlorine from UV degradation, but unless your spa is out uncovered in sunlight for many hours a day CYA isn't something you need at all in your spa water. I would make sure your test strips are working correctly and that the bleach your adding is pure bleach with nothing else added. I've never in all my years seen bleach with cyanuric acid. I have seen stabilizer sold in liquid form, in fact I just put 2 gallons of that in a swimming pool today to bring up the CYA. I'm guessing somehow you got a bottle of that and not bleach (sodium hypochlorite is the active ingredient) and have been putting that into your tub instead. Hope this helps!
Also, If I know I have very hard water in my area what would you recommend on top of this bleach??
Do you really think I have to empty it once a month?
This is a very good question and I share in your pain having extremely hard water myself. There really is no way to remove calcium from the water but you can use chemicals to keep it in suspension so you don't get scaling. I used to use anti scaling chemicals but now since I drain the spa monthly I do something else. Before draining, I remove the paper filter (so it doesn't get ruined) and add about 4 oz of muriatic acid to lower the pH. I run the system this way for about 12 hours, basically overnight. What this does is removes and scale from the tub walls and heater element and you'll see it flaking off into the water. I then drain this water wash out the calcium and refill. You don't want to have low pH for too long as it's damaging to the heater, pipes and vinyl but brief exposure hasn't caused me any issues. I only do this twice a year so about every 6 water changes provided I'm doing them monthly. As for emptying once a month it really depends on how many people are using the tub. If you're only going in a couple times a week by yourself then you can likely wait 2 even 3 months to change the water. If I find my water has any smell I right for a water change though, in my area water is fairly inexpensive.
Thank you for this! Question: when you say run the hot tub after adding the initial bleach do you mean run the bubbles??
You don't need to run the bubbles, just let the filter circulate the water. You'll find using the bubbler will cool down the water very quickly so I only run mine when I'm in the tub and even then use it more without the bubblers on. if you need to cool your tub down though the bubblers is a good way to accomplish that.
@@BobsPoolService Thank you for all the input. I added some regular bleach to our hot tub based on the pool calculator and now I have a ton of foamy suds on the top. Do you have any insight? We’ve been really careful to shower before getting in as well as only using bathing suits dedicated to the hot tub and not washed and laundry detergent. The foaming happened immediately after I added my bleach.
@@bh4396 Did you possibly use a scented bleach or one with a fabric softener built in? There's also "low splash" bleaches that may have something else in them. Pure bleach, sodium hypochlorite should not cause suds but things such as algaecides can do that. It is possible the bleach reacted with something else in the water but in my 35 years of pools I've not seen bleach cause sudsing, I have seen it react with copper and cause a green cloud. Bleach is simply chlorine, the same base ingredient used in all kinds of chlorine products sold for pools and hot tubs but again, some mfg's may put in other additives and scents.
@@BobsPoolService apparently I got Clorox for HE machines! I was doing some research online and saw on a forum others lamenting over this as well LOL. I can’t believe how difficult it is to find just regular bleach! I just ordered some regular Clorox pool chlorine tablets after all.
@@BobsPoolService next question! Is free chlorine important? I’ve been going off total chlorine which is fine in between 3-5 ppm but not the free chlorine
What is the link to the calculator?
poolchemicalcalculator.com/Pool-Free-Chlorine-Calculator.html. is the one I used, I should put it in the decription.