Hi all. I'm Hoping that you guys can help me out. I have had a smaller hot tub for about 6 years now. It's a 6 person hot tub from Aquarest Spas; model number AR - 600. A Home Depot purchase in 2015.
Recently the pump seized up because the seal wore out on it and there was calcium that built up inside the pump. Long long story short, the person that was supposed to fix it did not do it right, has been ghosting my calls a lot, and now I have a tub that is losing water at a rapid rate every few days with a poorly "rebuilt" pump. The only reason why the option of rebuilding the pump was put on the table was because they are currently sold out of all the pumps, and with the supply shortage there is no window of when they will be back in stock.
Today I drained it and attempted to winterize it. The tub is on the deck outside and I am in the hills of Pennsylvania where it gets to be 20゚during the winter, if not lower. A couple years back it was 20 below 0 for a good week. So until I can get a new pump installed properly on at, I need to winterize it.
I drained all the water out of it. I then I then took my shop vac and sucked out the remaining water at the very bottom of it. I then use the blower mode on the shopvac and I covered every single jet with the blower and blew out the access water in the lines. I did this around the tub 3 different times and waited 25 minutes and did it again just to make sure I got all the access water out. I then wiped out the inside of the shell with a couple of towels and made sure it was dry and I put the cover back on. I then put 2 thick pieces of plywood over the cover to protect it from any falling debris (like ice) off the roof.
Looking at a couple of YouTube videos, I am seeing that some tub models need to have the pump or some part of that area disconnected with extra water drained out of it. I am not sure if that applies to my specific tub or even to my situation since the pump is already bad and needs to be replaced. I would like to make sure that there is no water that's going to freeze inside of it.
This is the link to my hot tub. Is any information, feedback, or help any of you can give me would be great.
https://aquarestspas.com/product/ar-600/