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One word of caution with the blanket though. If you use one be sure to cut some kind of channel in it so you can keep your water feature running. You need to keep your water feature running so sanitizer gets through. If you don’t do this, you will end up with biofilm in your tub. I learned the hard way!Oh, almost forgot, the spa blanket we use came from RH Tubs. Very happy with it. Don’t bother with the bubble wrap ones.
Quote from: Quickbeam on August 31, 2015, 01:56:11 pmOne word of caution with the blanket though. If you use one be sure to cut some kind of channel in it so you can keep your water feature running. You need to keep your water feature running so sanitizer gets through. If you don’t do this, you will end up with biofilm in your tub. I learned the hard way!Oh, almost forgot, the spa blanket we use came from RH Tubs. Very happy with it. Don’t bother with the bubble wrap ones.Forgive my ignorance, but aren't these floating blankets used with the regular cover at the same time? If so, how does a water feature operate with the cover on?
Quickbeam - this is interesting for me. Given we've seen higher than expected (tho consistent) FC usage, I started thinking about this after seeing your response. We run the waterfall when we're in the tub but shut it off when we get out. So you keep yours at a trickle? I'm wondering if because we don't, things build up in there and don't get cleaned up, so we're putting more into the water when we run it but that seems extreme since you'd think when we're in it, that would come out into the tub and get cleaned up by the post soak bleach.
I’m not sure about your situation, but I’ll tell you what happened with us. We have our hot tub at a summer cabin. We were using our tub quite a bit when we first got it, and were doing the same as you. That is, we would use the waterfall when we were in the tub, and have it shut off when we were finished. This was working out fine and I didn’t think anything of it. When winter came we didn’t spend near as much time at the cabin, so we therefore didn’t use the hot tub as much. As we weren’t using the hot tub as much, the waterfall didn’t have a chance to run. Because the waterfall wasn’t running, we ended up with biofilm. We now leave the waterfall on, so whenever the circ. pump runs the waterfall comes on. We don’t have it on full, but we do have it set so there is a decent flow comes out. I’m told you only need to have a trickle come out, but because of our previous experience, I’m being extra careful. In any case, since we now have our waterfall left on, we have not had any further troubles.Hope this helps you.