Anyone have a Hot Tub?

LiE · 13 Aug 2020 at 15:01

Hot Spring World have agreed to swap my hot tub for a new one, so I'm happy with that result. The after sales is one of the reasons I went with them and they have come through.

CaptainRAVE · 13 Aug 2020 at 15:07

LiE said:
Hot Spring World have agreed to swap my hot tub for a new one, so I'm happy with that result. The after sales is one of the reasons I went with them and they have come through.

Good news. Second time lucky?

Dandle · 13 Aug 2020 at 15:20

Great news.

LiE · 13 Aug 2020 at 17:41

Hoping there won’t be a huge wait but there could well be.

CaptainRAVE · 13 Aug 2020 at 18:00

LiE said:
Hoping there won’t be a huge wait but there could well be.

True, there did seem to be a fair backlog across the board with hot tubs.

Dandle · 14 Aug 2020 at 18:18

We were just given £500 of ours due to delays. New orders of vitaspa tubs won't be delivered until next year now due to the delay in manufacture because of the covid shut down. There's also a shortage of acrylic due to it being diverted for shields in shop and restaurants apparently.

Bickaxe · 14 Aug 2020 at 19:21

We had £500 off ours, a full on care kit (no need to buy chems for the next 12 months), steps and the cover thrown in as well (£400).
It even arrived 9 weeks early (Suspect someone with same spec cancelled).
All from Happy Hottubs. No pressure selling either to the point that they said the optional speaker system was pointless.

CaptainRAVE · 28 Oct 2020 at 11:56

Changed the water and cleaned the tub. Getting a lot better at it. However, the water just won’t settle this time - I have a high ph and a low alkalinity with both moving in opposite directions. Not a great start to water that I was hoping would last through the winter to April.

OldKitMan · 28 Oct 2020 at 12:06

CaptainRAVE said:
Changed the water and cleaned the tub. Getting a lot better at it. However, the water just won’t settle this time - I have a high ph and a low alkalinity with both moving in opposite directions. Not a great start to water that I was hoping would last through the winter to April.

What chemicals are you using to try and balance it?

What are you using to measure the ph, chlorine and alkalinity levels?

CaptainRAVE · 28 Oct 2020 at 12:19

OldKitMan said:
What chemicals are you using to try and balance it?

What are you using to measure the ph, chlorine and alkalinity levels?

Ph minus at the moment since the alkalinity was originally fine and the ph alkaline. Our water is really hard.

At the start we always add this and it has always put the water in the right window -

140g pH minus
110ml anti-scale
6-8g chlorine

Use test strips to measure.

Edit: tested again and seems ok now. pH a fraction high, but I generally find that goes down slightly anyway.

CaptainRAVE · 27 Dec 2020 at 14:11

Heavy snow showers tomorrow. Going to try the hot tub! Had a blissful Christmas Eve session.

Dandle · 27 Dec 2020 at 15:58

We've been using ours a lot as well.

For info and anyone interested we tried the Eco3spa treatment recommended in this thread and it didn't work for us at all. We ended up draining and refilling it three times trying to get it right and the company even sent an extra bottle of cleaner. Like a lot of the rainforest reviews our hottub was going cloudy over about a week each time and even caused hottub rash. Added chlorine to it and within a day it cleared. Won't be trying it again.

LiE · 27 Dec 2020 at 17:00

Dandle said:
We've been using ours a lot as well.

For info and anyone interested we tried the Eco3spa treatment recommended in this thread and it didn't work for us at all. We ended up draining and refilling it three times trying to get it right and the company even sent an extra bottle of cleaner. Like a lot of the rainforest reviews our hottub was going cloudy over about a week each time and even caused hottub rash. Added chlorine to it and within a day it cleared. Won't be trying it again.

Chlorine + a weekly dose of non-chlorine shock, is very straight forward.

Dandle · 27 Dec 2020 at 17:32

LiE said:
Chlorine + a weekly dose of non-chlorine shock, is very straight forward.

Yeah I'm getting there. Been using multifunction chlorine tabs from the swimming pool as they have flocculant in them too. The PH was a little low yesterday so added some PH+ last night and every so often some anti foam agent. Appreciate any advice though.

zuludawn · 29 Dec 2020 at 18:38

Had to wait 8 months for mine to be delivered from Canada its a Be Well E585 with bromicharge (it makes its own Bromine and auto doses)

CaptainRAVE · 29 Dec 2020 at 18:40

Makes it own? Cool. Our electricity bill has certainly gone up now its cooler. Turning the tub down slightly when not in use!

zuludawn · 29 Dec 2020 at 18:43

CaptainRAVE said:
Makes it own? Cool. Our electricity bill has certainly gone up now its cooler. Turning the tub down slightly when not in use!

Easier to read this lol, mines on 39 degrees, owned spa's for 25 years so become custom to the costs.

http://www.inclear.ca/inclearbromine

LiE · 29 Dec 2020 at 18:52

CaptainRAVE said:
Makes it own? Cool. Our electricity bill has certainly gone up now its cooler. Turning the tub down slightly when not in use!

Our HotSpring makes it own Chlorine.
https://www.hotspringworld.co.uk/freshwater-salt-system/

CaptainRAVE · 31 Dec 2020 at 14:12

New Years Eve in the hot tub - nothing else to do this year. Will watch everyone else setting off their fireworks

The question is - 39C or 39.5C

Firestar_3x · 31 Dec 2020 at 14:16

39 is my limit, I actually prefer ours running at 38.

Need to take the 3inch of snow off ours before using it later.