We have had our Euphoria for one month now and are in the process of completing our first drain and refill as some on the forum suggest is wise. We followed our dealer's instructions for our first fill last month but never felt that we had our water in perfect balance. We are going to follow Hottubber's recommended fill plan (from a March 9 response to one of my posts) this time and see if we get better results.
Thus far we have done the following:
- drain
- clean shell
- refill
- add one 16 oz. bottle of Leisure Time Metal Gon, a mineral sequestering agent in liquid form while the tub was refilling as per instructions on bottle (Hottubber said to adjust alkalinity & calcium hardness before adding the Metal Gon, so I hope we did not mess anything up too badly)
-start spa after proper fill level reached
- test alkalinity with Taylor kit; reading = 150
- add 1 oz. Marquis pH & alkalinity down & wait 30 minutes
- second alk reading = 140
- added another 1 oz. of Marquis pH & alkalinity down
- third alk reading = 140
- spa frog is still out
- write this message
Does the pH & alk down take time to work?
Should we shock now while spa is heating or wait until we have the alk in the proper range?
How do we test and adjust calcium hardness?
We are confused, as you can tell. Help please.