How to Decontaminate a Spa or Hot Tub
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- čas přidán 1. 09. 2022
- Some of the signs of a contaminated spa include persistently cloudy water, foaming, inability to maintain chlorine/bromine readings, odours and rashes. If you have been constantly struggling with some of these issues. You should DECONTAMINATE your spa with this 72-hour decontamination process.
To decontaminate, you need to super-chlorinate the water with granular chlorine (or substitute granular bromine for chlorine).
Add chlorine at a minimum ratio of 2.5 ounces (5 tablespoons, 75 grams) of chlorine per 100 gallons (400 litres) of spa water. For this treatment to be effective it is imperative that the chlorinated water is distributed throughout the entire plumbing system. Ensure that diverter valves are midway and that all jets, valves, waterfalls, water features, and aerators are open and are subjected to the chlorine. If your tub has a drain next to the pump or at the base of the cabinet to which you can attach a hose to facilitate draining, ensure that some of the chlorinated water is bled through the drain at the onset of this procedure. This is very important to do because any built-in drains are a dead end in the plumbing and the chlorine will not naturally make its way down to that part of the plumbing, but the contaminant will.
Check the chlorine reading after 24, 48 and 72 hours. If at any of these intervals the chlorine is anything less than ridiculously high (if it shows less than the maximum on your test strips) treat the tub again with chlorine and start the clock over on the 72hour time period.
Do not use the spa during the decontamination process.
At 1:44 in the video, how are you determining that the chlorine level is below 30 ppm when the hand held tester being used in the video only seems to read up to 5 ppm ?
At high levels like 30 ppm, the colour on a Taylor test kit (pictured in the video) or on test strips is unrecognizable, and it is that REALLY high reading that you wish to maintain. If the colours show something recognizable, then you need to add more.
If you are decontaminating your spa, feel free to reach out to our support team at Solutions@SpaMarvel.com
why would i clean the filters and then put new ones?
Hi Emma. You would either clean and reinstall your filter, or install a new one.
if the water has got to this point isnt time to drain and refill anyway?
It’s not the water that is contaminated, it’s the plumbing that harbours the contaminants. Even brand new spas can have mould, algae, bacteria and biofilm in the plumbing. Change the water all you want, if you don’t decontaminate you can struggle forever.
At step 4 it says use a plumbing product or Purge cleaner but it doesn't seem to explain actually how you use that? What do you actually do you just pour that in the water and follow the instructions say on the bottle depending on the size of your spa for how much to put in and then you just let it run through all the Jets and if so for how long?
@@AttractionSpot There are many different plumbing cleaners/purge products on the market. Use them as per the directions on the respective packages.
If you are using Spa Marvel Cleanser, the directions are to dd the bottle of Spa Marvel Cleanser to the spa water and run the jets on high-speed for 1 hour. If you have already used Spa Marvel Water Treatment in your spa, one hour will suffice for what we are doing. If you have not previously used Spa Marvel, then leave the Cleanser in for another 23 hours on the regular filtration cycles.
During the 72 hours the spa is not turned on at all, is that correct?
It would be a good idea to leave the spa on its regular scheduled filtration cycles, to help to keep the chlorine concentration consistent throughout the water.
Can you use Bromine instead of Chlorine?
You absolutely can.