My kids make the water foam

[solo]

Every time my kids get in the spa, I have a foaming problem the next day.  My guess is that it is either detergent from their suits or soap that they do not fully rinse off of them when bathing and washing their hair.

Should I consider one of the antifoaming spoa products?

[Brookenstein]

I wash my kids suits with no detergent and that helps some.

I don't bother with the anti-foaming stuff, but some people put a squirt bottle top on it and spray it dilluted like that.

[Repeat_Offender]

The antifoam stuff is a losing battle. Better off designating suits for spa use only and just use fresh water to rinse them.

[In Canada eh]

Hair products are huge contributors to foaming, if you can ask the kids not to go underwater when using the tub

[Sudzz]

No kids underwater in our tub. Main reason is safety (so hair can't get caught in suction at intakes) and other reason is to keep the foam to a minimum.  The anti-foam products diluted in a spray bottle work very well for us when the foam gets out of control during a hot tub party.

[Vinny]

Buy a pool skimmer, get the water to foam, scoop it out as much as you can and then shock with MPS to get the rest you couldn't get out.

As was said: designate swim wear for the tub, no heads under water (both my kids got ear infections at the same time when they did that) and watch body lotions as well.

[Scaramanga]

No kids underwater in our tub. Main reason is safety (so hair can't get caught in suction at intakes)

I did not realize that this was still a concern regarding modenr portable spas.

Are there not safety features to prevent this? :-?

[Repeat_Offender]

No kids underwater in our tub. Main reason is safety (so hair can't get caught in suction at intakes)

Are there not safety features to prevent this? :-?

Sure there are, in the number and size of the water intakes, and their placement. Bottom line is the water feeding the pumps has to come from somewhere and that somewhere is inside your tub. With people calling for more and more powerful jets manufacturers have to go with more or larger pumps that move more water. That's larger volumes of water at higher velocities.

[wmccall]

Hair products are huge contributors to foaming, if you can ask the kids not to go underwater when using the tub

The above messages about designating a suit as spa only and this message is on target.   The only thing I would change here is change ASK to threaten them within an inch of their lives if they put their end under water and ask kids with longer hair to put it up.

[Renee]

We had a terrible time with foam the first 4 months of owning our hot tub.  Since we've switched to Dichlor/N2 cartridge, we've not had ANY problems with foam.  I attribute the foam problems to bromine.  Not sure if that's fair or not.  But I won't switch back to bromine.  I love the dichlor regimen....it's working really well for us!