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Hot Tub Maintenance: Hire a Service or DIY?

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Any hot tub owner is aware that in order to maintain their treatment spas enjoyable and functional, they need a routine cleaning, sporadic maintenance, and general care. While the majority of maintenance tasks are rather straightforward and simple to handle on your own, this isn't always the case. How do you determine which choice is most appropriate given your situation; service or DIY?   Delve into the article to explore in detail why DIY is the best option, when you can go for a professional service, and how you can do it yourself. DIY Hot Tub Maintenance While time-consuming, hot tub maintenance is often not difficult to perform on your own. However, some homeowners might not want or have the time to completely maintain their hot tubs alone. Let's examine when performing hot tub repair tasks on your own is a smart idea and when it could not be. When DIY Is Best? Of course, nobody wants to use a hot tub with broken jets or contaminated water! The majority of general cleaning...

A Dirty Hot Tub is a Hub of Diseases — Here's How You Can Clean It

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Consider this: you are lying in your hot tub after a tiring day, and suddenly you start feeling sick, with your skin all itchy. Ever wonder why? It could be due to the microbes growing in your tub. Hot tubs are usually their ideal place to cultivate if the hygiene of the hot tub is not maintained. Hot tub rashes ( Pseudomonas aeruginosa ), E-coli, cryptosporidium, and Legionnaires are some very common health conditions that can cause minor to serious illnesses to people using dirty hot tubs regularly.  If you are still confused and have been experiencing symptoms like constant rashes on the skin, fatigue, malaise, or even with a fever, get your hot tub clean immediately. Here's how you can maintain your hot tub's hygiene.   The ScumRay hot tub scum preventer is just what you need to do to avoid major troubles and stay healthy and clean.   What Makes a Hot Tub Unclean? Even if you sanitize your hot tub regularly, it does not get the job done. The water remains ...

7 Awesome Hot Tub Care Tips and Tricks

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  Hot tubs are all about relaxing, drinking wine, reading, and rejuvenating to wash away all your woes.  As a hot tub owner, you need to know that it's important you treat it with love and take care of it. This includes cleaning it, checking it, adding important chemicals, and ensuring that it is safe for everyone who uses it. 1.     Water Circulation Circulating the water at least twice daily is important to keep your hot tub clean. When you circulate the water, impurities are removed as it goes through the filter, resulting in sanitary water. Advanced hot tubs have circulation systems that do this automatically twice a day. If you don't have one of these, you'll have to manually turn on the water circulation every day to keep the hot tub water clean. 2.     Use a Scum Preventer We all use a variety of lotions, creams, soaps, and sprays on our bodies, which are washed away when we enter ...

10 Reasons Why Your Hot Tub is Not Heating Properly

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  Hot tubs are meant to be hot.  If the water temperature in your hot tub is warm and not as hot as you prefer, we are here to help.  A variety of factors could be the cause of the hot tub not heating properly. It's important to discover the source of the problem, whether it's an inefficient or wrong-fitted hot tub cover, a malfunctioning hot tub heater, faulty parts, power issues, or even poor insulation. We will provide a list of the causes and how to prevent it with our ScumRay Hot Tub Scum Preventer. 1.    The hot tub heater is malfunctioning Most elements of a hot tub heater have a five to ten-year lifespan. Check the wiring and connections to the heater, and make sure they are all tight. Then check for burned wires and make sure the heater is powered on. Replace the heating element if you find any cracks or chips in the coating around the filament. Another thing to look for is power continuity. Turn off the power an...

Sanitize Your Hot Tub with Best Cleaner - Buy ScumRay Twin Pack Today!

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Cleaning and sanitizing your hot tub on a regular basis is one of the greatest ways to ensure clean, clear, and easy-to-maintain water. Unfortunately, few hot tub owners follow a regular cleaning regimen. Today, we'll show you how to clean every part of your hot tub properly and also show you how to do it with our top-performing product ScumRay. This is also available as ScumRay Twin Pack in which you get two hot tub cleaners. First step: Draining and refilling your hot tub The most effective and basic technique to clean your hot tub is to drain all of the water, clean the surface, and then refill it. Draining it has two main benefits. It allows you to add fresh water, which improves the quality of the water and provides a more enjoyable bathing experience. And secondly, it gives you the opportunity to clean the hot tub's shell. How to drain the water? To drain the hot tub, first turn off the hot tub's power. When the power is turned off, connect a water...