Spa Maintenance Routine

Back to maintaining your spa home

Here is an overview of what you should be doing and when in terms of maintaining your spa.

Daily

• Check sanitiser level & dose as required
• Check pH level & dose as required

Weekly

• Oxidise hot tub with Shock
• Check if your water is really clear and add Sparkle flocculant if necessary.
• If there is foaming add Antifoam.

Two weekly

• Clean filter cartridge using Filter Cleaner
• Take water sample to check water balance
• If in area of high calcium hardness add Scale Remover to prevent scale deposits

Periodically

• Not all the pollution added by bathers to the spa is removed by even the best filters or chemicals.
• At least once a month the spa will need completely draining & refilling. If the spa has been very heavily used it should be drained more frequently.
• There are no hard and fast rules as to when this should be done but the following formulation seems to work well in practise:
• Tub litres divided by daily bathers divided by 12 = days between draining & refilling
• Example : 1200 litres divided by 2 divided by 12 = 50 days.
• This is a good opportunity to give the spa a good clean. Shock the spa, circulate for at least an hour, clean all surfaces, drain, rinse and refill.