Peeing in Spa?????

[johnnythunders]

A friend of mine at work lets call him Bruce bought a spa and says peeing in the spa will bring down the Ph and no need to buy any chems for that.Now hes home with some sort of Growth am i am thinking it might be from the spa.Everyone says it is not the peeing in a spa and eating Asparagus but i think it might have something to do with it....lol..Jt

[stuart]

A friend of mine at work lets call him Bruce bought a spa and says peeing in the spa will bring down the Ph and no need to buy any chems for that.Now hes home with some sort of Growth am i am thinking it might be from the spa.Everyone says it is not the peeing in a spa and eating Asparagus but i think it might have something to do with it....lol..Jt

By any chance does your freind play rock music backwards and do a lot of drugs...?

[johnnythunders]

Naaaaaaa i think hes a bit  f**kedup in the head.A few people where going to go into his spa until he said he  pees in it to bring the Ph down lol.I ratter just use Chems for my spa....Jt

[salesdvl]

If you get 3 guys tegether they could imitate the Bella Fontana.

just a thought.  

[windsurfdog]

If you get 3 guys tegether they could imitate the Bella Fontana.

just a thought.  

Make sure they are young guys........better streams.......

[HotTubMan]

You can lower your pH with urine. You can also use up a whole lot of santizer too! That is disgusting. You can't stop kids <10 years old from doing but, but adults?

You can also raise your pH with air. Running your pumps with the air on will lower your pH. It will also cause your heater to work  more.

The trouble with both of these methods, besides costing you more money than using the right product (electricity and sanitizer cost more than balancers) is that there is no way to measure. How long to run the pumps? How much urine?

BAD IDEA

HTM

[salesdvl]

OK.  I could spend a lifetime looking this up but it is easier to just ask.  

Why would air raise your PH.  I understand the concept. I never realized that air had a high PH.

[empolgation]

You can also raise your pH with air. Running your pumps with the air on will lower your pH.

Will air raise or lower your PH? I am as curious as salesdvl as to how air will effect PH..

[HotTubMan]

pH=potential Hydrogen

Airating the water will increase the potential Hydrogen in the water resulting in higher pH in the water. I do not beleive air has a high pH, it is the introduction of the air to the water that results in the pH increase.

The more jets you have in your spa, the more pH creep you will experience. The same can be said if the spa is used more.

SpaGuard lists this on its weekly maintenance printouts:

2. Test and adjust pH regularly
    .......Spas with a large number of therapy jets (> tend to experience high pH

HTM

[HotTubMan]

LOL

(> was supposed to say less than 8 with the symbol for less than.