Hot Tub Forum
Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: stvee on December 21, 2016, 12:21:55 pm
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Hi,
I have a wood fired hot tub. with a molded plastic inside, an external stainless steel heater and a sand filtration system.
The water still gets manky ( and probably full of bacteria) after a few sessions........
People use it daily and ideally i don't want to change the water more than once a week.
What chemicals do you recommend i use to keep the water clean, ideally NON chlorine as that will corrode the heater?
Many Thanks- Steve
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Hi,
I have a wood fired hot tub. with a molded plastic inside, an external stainless steel heater and a sand filtration system.
The water still gets manky ( and probably full of bacteria) after a few sessions........
People use it daily and ideally i don't want to change the water more than once a week.
What chemicals do you recommend i use to keep the water clean, ideally NON chlorine as that will corrode the heater?
Many Thanks- Steve
If you want clean, sanitized water, you have to use chlorine or bromine. The heater is SS. It will burn up before it gets wrecked by chlorine.
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your options would be: Granular Chlorine, Bromine Tablets, Baqua-Spa/Hydrogen Peroxide, or you could plumb an in-line ozonator in and combine that with a silver ion cartridge and use small amounts of non-chlorine shock after each use
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Chlorine, in the small amounts used in hot tubs, should have no effect on the heater.
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Great,
Thank you for all advice.
Steve
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or you could plumb an in-line ozonator in and combine that with a silver ion cartridge and use small amounts of non-chlorine shock after each use
BFSM the problem with this is your still supplementing with chlorine. I like to reverse think it. Start figuring out chlorine and supplement with ions and oxidizer.