LOST 300 gallions of water Jacuzzi J-355????

[ndabunka]

Yep you are right...
Jacuzzi told me to leave it as it is and put a space heater under it....
But the tech filled my spa up with water and I guess there was no leaks as the invoice says.
I have been using Chemicals for the last hour and still no leaks....
Yes I could have took the side panel off,,,,but if I lost 300 gallions of water I think it would have been leaking out on all sides of the spa....
What annoys me is a labor charge of $60 above the $100 service call....I will call the owner tomorrow...I am sure he will wave that charge,well I hope he does lol.....JT

Ah, why would the dealer be expected to "waive" a charge for an incident that wasn't an "incident" after all?  He still had to incure the cost of sending a tech out to investigate it at YOUR request.  If it ain't broke, there's no reason the dealer should have to pay for YOUR error.   It does sound like some one was "messing" with you and it cost you $160 bucks to discover that.  I'd try toi figure it out and either get them to pay me back for their prank or find anther way (i.e. photos of their wife superimposed at a hotel...) to get "even".

I can appreciate a fellow Jacuzzi guy but there is no reason the dealer should have to pay (i.e. incur cost) due to a non-warranty issue

[johnnythunders]

I am not complaining about the $100 service call.
I am complaining about the $60 Labor charge.....
NOBODY took the water out of my spa(guess that might have been a joke}
The water vanished somewhere.
I mean when you see half or more of the water is gone I think most will shut
off the power witch I did.
So the repair guy could not find a problem,,,But I do feel that it might happen again.
300 gallions just don't get up and walk away.
Its just very strange that I enjoy the spa last night and today water level is good..
I called the book keeper of the spa company where I bought the spa from and she will she what she can do about the $60...
I even told her to say that it was a Flo switch if she had too,since they don't sell jacuzzis anymore but they still repair the ones that they sold.....I even told her that I have been buy my spa and pool products from them for over 4 years,lets see if they wave the $60 labor.............................................JT

[Jacuzzi Jim]

I'm telling ya, just open the front panel and see if there is any water in the pan, it is designed to drain out though 4 small holes in the btm but it does take a bit to do.

[Richs100]

Well, half the mystery is solved:
We know where the $160.00 went.  
Now we just need to find that 300 gallons of water.  

....possible UFO re-fueling?    

[Jacuzzi Jim]

Well, half the mystery is solved:
We know where the $160.00 went.  
Now we just need to find that 300 gallons of water.  

....possible UFO re-fueling?    

  Its gotta be Cows, they are always up to something when your not looking!

[Richs100]

That cartoon is one of Larson's best!

[SerjicalStrike]

How high was the water?  Were the air controls open or closed?

Very rarely, if the suction for the air controls hangs down low, and the water is too high, the tub can actually syphon itself.  

[Richs100]

How high was the water?  Were the air controls open or closed?

Very rarely, if the suction for the air controls hangs down low, and the water is too high, the tub can actually syphon itself.  

But Serj, if the water had syphoned out of the tub, it would have been frozen on the concrete pad (or at least some of it).  The Poster says the water disappeared.

My bet is still on a UFO re-fueling incident.  Or a thirsty Chupacabra.  

JohnnyThunders:   did you ever take the front off your equipment compartment as Jacuzzi Jim suggested?  Was it dry inside?

[Spatech_tuo]

How high was the water?  Were the air controls open or closed?

Very rarely, if the suction for the air controls hangs down low, and the water is too high, the tub can actually syphon itself.  

He said he lost 300 gallons in 2 hrs so it couldn't be something like that. I'm still betting on the neighbor screwing with him.

[powernoodle]

paranormal....

[SerjicalStrike]

He said he lost 300 gallons in 2 hrs so it couldn't be something like that. I'm still betting on the neighbor screwing with him.

It takes about 45 minutes to completely drain a large tub with a garden hose.  Of course it could lose 300 gallons in two hours.  We have had people in Optimas with the water too high sit right back against the main therapy seat (the one with 14 jets) and while they were sitting in it, it drained out.

[Josh]

This same thing happened to me (although it was a slower leak).

It was because rats had chewed their way in through the bottom of the cabinet and chewed holes in the pipes.  I couldn't see the actual lead itself by taking off the panels, only see that water was indeed coming out of the bottom when I filled it up.

That's what sent me on a search for a new tub....and when the old one was hauled away, I got to see all the holes the rats had chewed.

[Mendocino101]

Josh,

What kind of tub did you have? Jacuzzi, Marquis and others have a bottom that prevents rats from chewing and gaining access to your tub. It is small things like this that help to make the tubs that most consider to be industry leaders distinguish themselves from the lesser recommend makers.

[104 degrees]

Josh,

What kind of tub did you have? Jacuzzi, Marquis and others have a bottom that prevents rats from chewing and gaining access to your tub. It is small things like this that help to make the tubs that most consider to be industry leaders distinguish themselves from the lesser recommend makers.

Sound like there great tubs for the getto.

[tinybubbles]

I had a similiar thing happen once.  I don't know if the large water loss was in the span of 2 hours or not.  We used the tub about 10pm and went out early the next am for another soak and stepped into the spa before we realized almost all the water was gone.  We didn't see any puddles of water around the spa but we noticed some drops on a nearby lounge chair and on the outside of the shell on one side near the top.  I immediately filled the spa back up and it didn't lose a drop of water and never has since.  The only logical thing we can figure is that the water level got a little too low and the highest jet started shooting water out of the spa between the cover and the shell.  It's a rotating jet.  It must have continued to do this until it got so low that the spa shut off.  I can't prove that's what happened, but that's what we think.