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Thanks, yes that would be the one.. I went back like 5 pages couldn't find it and gave up. But yes, I think my "Experiment" was/is a success! Nice to be able to fill the hot tub with fresh water and not recycled pool water, especially with the different amounts of salt they take! Just thought...

So, I posted on this before but its been a while and I could not find the thread, anyhow.... I know there is mention of getting rid of iron in water to keep the tub clean and here is my method, easy, small expenditure, and always works! I started out by noticing my sand filter in my pool would...

Ok, same with me..

So do you do anything to try to alter the soft water? I too have very soft water from my well and I don't seem to have any ill effects from it. I guess that would be different with a concrete or gunnite pool.

Just remember you will have a Chlorine hot tub if you do this, the SWG just turns the salt into chlorine.

I think I've had mine for 15 months now and it runs about 8 hrs a day, 2 sessions of 4 hours each, still going strong as far as I can tell. Not sure I'm allowed to do this here, but I'd be interested in your spare cell if you are wanting to part with it. PM me I guess.

A lot of times if my tub is getting a little low, and a big rain is coming I open mine on purpose to fill it a bit. My lid also has drain holes on the underside toward the middle and if it feels heavy I'll stand one up in the middle for a bit to let it drain. The baseball hat is a good idea, we...

I switched to the Saltron mini about a year ago and have had no issues at all, made it so much easier to take care of! My tub did come with the titanium heater so if there is a problem with a stainless one I have not had that issue.

I'm sure they didn't make as much money as if they had built them one!

Yes, my pool came with a SWG (Reasonably expensive option) and a year maybe 2 after getting this Hot Tub I splurged and got the mini. So pleased with the results. SWG in the pool died after about 5 years and the replacement was $900 and change... money well spent. I still use those 3" pucks...

I guess you better pay up then! Years ago we looked into a site built hot tub and while they look good, they do not have all the goodies a stand-alone one does. And two bodies of water to take care of just doesn't bother me much, unlike what some people think, a pool or hot tub just is not that...

Ok, a little update on this. If you look on post 10 you will see the color of the filter after one day, looks like a coffee filter! These pictures are after two days filtering after running the sand filter for about 20 hours, much cleaner with only very minor streaks of the rust color in them...

Yep, and it will keep your pool/hot tub happy

Close to where I'm at, my TA right now is a bit high at 50, I like 40 ish more, PH about the same and I don't even keep track of the CH, my well water is very soft, and my tub and pool are fiberglass so it won't be eating my gunnite or whatever. I keep my tub hot as well, its 104 24/7/365...

Go read this ( How do I use Chlorine in my Spa (or pool)? ) it will make things so easy for you!

I'm going to try a couple pics, tried earlier to no avail. Ok, first is the filter set up, Next is the "coffee" filter next to a clean one, And the last is the "coffee" filter that has been dipped in Iron out. So I put the clean filter back in and will check it later for rust stains and if...

Yeah, me too!! ;)

Whoa!! That sounds like a huge project! I have a stand alone hot tub sitting on a concrete slab that surrounds the pool about 10 feet away that would entail a whole lot of plumbing to hook them up. And we sit in that hot tub every day so it is always at temperature and ready for use. We elected...

I have not tried the polyfill but I do have a skimmer area in the tub, but then you have the polyfill mess to clean up when you are done. And I now already have the separate filter and if it works like my pool filter I'll be happy, and its just not that hard to set up.

I have read those articles before when I was first working on this, about the same time I noticed the sand filter in my pool doing the job, but I will keep those in mind thanks.

Sorry this is a bit long. So as some of you might know I normally fill my hot tub from my pool, due to the high iron content of my well water. Seems my sand filter cleans out the iron very well, If I have to fill the pool with the hose I'll get a green tint to the pool so I run a 24 hr filter...