Hot Tub Forum
Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: Han Solo on August 09, 2006, 11:49:38 pm
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Hello All,
I've been lurking here since I bought my spa last month. It finally came today and except for a real quick here's how it works, all I got was a bunch of papers and a box of chemicals. I bought a one person Sundance Solo spa for myself, and the electrician is coming tomorrow to finish the wiring. My question is, since I only have a 100 gallon spa, and the Chlorine Granules say to add 1/2 oz per 500 gallons of water, how do I know and measure the correct amount for my spa? I know it would be 1/5 of 1/2 oz, but how do I go about measuring that?
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I use about 2 teaspoons for a 485 gallon spa, so try a spot less than a half teaspoon, check your cholrine level after about 20 minutes, and see what level you get. Add a bit more if your level is too low, add a bit less if it's too high.
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100 gallons? That's like 2x the size of a bathtub, isn't it? cool....
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100 gallons? That's like 2x the size of a bathtub, isn't it? cool....
The Solo is actually a very good therapy tub.
Forget the amounts and pay attention to chlorine level after adding. Start small, say 1 tsp, then test to see what your free chlorine level is. Adjust from there. Every spa has its own chlorine demand. It just takes a little trial and error to find it.
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Hello All,
I've been lurking here since I bought my spa last month. It finally came today and except for a real quick here's how it works, all I got was a bunch of papers and a box of chemicals. I bought a one person Sundance Solo spa for myself, and the electrician is coming tomorrow to finish the wiring. My question is, since I only have a 100 gallon spa, and the Chlorine Granules say to add 1/2 oz per 500 gallons of water, how do I know and measure the correct amount for my spa? I know it would be 1/5 of 1/2 oz, but how do I go about measuring that?
Maybe this will help..................
http://www.rhtubs.com/info/water.htm
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Thanks for the replies. I added the rhtubs link to my favorites and I will refer to it when in doubt. I hope my little bathtub solo fixes my old tired body and I can hardly wait until it's ready. At my age I need all the help I can get.
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;) clean, hot, swirly water makes it all better.....
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;) clean, hot, swirly water makes it all better.....
That's what I've been trying to sell to my wife. :o
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don't feel bad....it's what I had to sell my husband on, too! ;)
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don't feel bad....it's what I had to sell my husband on, too! ;)
Did he ever really learn to enjoy it?
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I have my tub for a little over a year - I am the only person who goes into it often - about once a week. my youngest son will go in about every time I go in, My oldest only goes in when his friends come over and my wife has been in it 5 times at the most.
Over the winter I went in a little more frequently than once a week but I have to say it does get loanly out there by myself. I thought that it would have gone over bigger than it did.
I could have gotten away with a 2 or 3 person tub and been OK since nobody comes in ...
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With the Sundance Solo model, it's only a one person spa so I plan on being in it alone. My wife hates hot tubs/spas (waters always too hot) and barely went into the hot tub we had when we first started dating twenty-three years ago. I purchased this spa only to help with my tired old muscles, because I still have a labor intensive job. I will be fifty-five in November, and still have to work another ten years before I can retire, so I'm hoping this might help me reach that goal. I also hope my wife will try it and discover that it helps her carpal-tunnel syndrome, as she is a chef and her hands and wrists really bother her at the end of the day. I'm planning on starting out with the water temperature down low until I get my her hooked.
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1/5 of 1tsp is about a pinch. Maybe you could just pinch some granules.
They do make 1/4 tsp measuring spoons (check your kitchen drawer).
As Tony stated...add a little bit, test the water and go from there. Whatever your solutions, don't stress over it too much.
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1/5 of 1tsp is about a pinch. Maybe you could just pinch some granules.
They do make 1/4 tsp measuring spoons (check your kitchen drawer).
As Tony stated...add a little bit, test the water and go from there. Whatever your solutions, don't stress over it too much.
Your right about the measuring spoons. I checked and my wife has them all the way down to a 1/8 spoon. My biggest problem is that I'm an anal-retentive person, so I'm always stressing about doing things correctly. Thanks............
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Hello All,
I've been lurking here since I bought my spa last month. It finally came today and except for a real quick here's how it works, all I got was a bunch of papers and a box of chemicals. I bought a one person Sundance Solo spa for myself, and the electrician is coming tomorrow to finish the wiring. My question is, since I only have a 100 gallon spa, and the Chlorine Granules say to add 1/2 oz per 500 gallons of water, how do I know and measure the correct amount for my spa? I know it would be 1/5 of 1/2 oz, but how do I go about measuring that?
count them....... ;)
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don't feel bad....it's what I had to sell my husband on, too! ;)
Did he ever really learn to enjoy it?
Well, he hasn't asked for a divorce yet....he's big on letting me use the tub while sitting on the step talking to me (I think he realizes that I'm a 'captive' audience at that time, since I'm cornered)...other times he'll use the tub "normally" and still others he'll get his swim shorts on and sit on the edge of the tub, just soaking his feet on the 'cooldown seat'.....He's learned that if I'm happy, I don't yell (much/loudly), and that makes HIM happy.... :D
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I also hope my wife will try it and discover that it helps her carpal-tunnel syndrome, as she is a chef and her hands and wrists really bother her at the end of the day. I'm planning on starting out with the water temperature down low until I get my her hooked.
I've also got CTS in both wrists badly enough that I can't wear a wristwatch anymore...I went in for acupuncture, which worked MIRACLES...this was pre-tub. I would think that the nice, warm water would help to soothe her aches and pains as well.
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The Sundance Solo has jets strategically placed at the wrists for CTS, at least that's what they advertise. I sure hope she gives it a try, as I hate to see her sometimes come home from work in such pain.