Keep your tub clean with natural hot tub chemicals

Proper maintenance of the hot tub is necessary to keep the water clean. This will improve your enjoyment of the spa. Though maintenance might take some time, it is worthy of the endeavour to have a healthy and clean spa in which you can dip after a long day at work.

There are various reasons why water in the hot tub might be discoloured, too foamy, and cloudy or cause hot tub rash. Most of these can be cleaned in no time by adding and testing appropriate chemical to the water in the hot tub. Some tips will improve your enjoyment in the hot tub.

hot tub rash

Polluted water

• In case you have a high bacteria level, you must add some sanitizer to the water.

• If there is a high calcium level, drain the tube half and then refill. In case there are solid elements dissolved in the water, adds some clarifier to get the job done. 

• Test the pH level in the tub. If it is not at the right level, utilize the pH solution to bring it to a proper level.

• It may also have high Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) level. If this is the situation, it is suggested that the hot tub should be completely refilled and drained.

Discoloured water

   

• Test the alkaline level and add pH to the hot tub to clarify it. Yellow water generally implies that there is low pH level. Heck the sanitizer level and add natural hot tub chemicals if necessary.  Green water might indicate growth of algae that may be deterred by adding sanitizer.

• You might have a high mineral count, to which you will have to add a stain and scale preventative. 

• If the water starts changing colour, you might have various issues and hence the appropriate hot tub chemical needs to be added.