Bath tub ring??

[A.O.]

Ok, I have this CL / MA system working good in my tub, add chlorine every day and a very little MA maybe a couple times a week maintain FC at 3-5, PH right around 7.6, TA is steady at 40, CYA at 35. My hardness level s low but doesn't seem to have a negative effect. Thanks for the lesson TFP!
But I get a little "bathtub ring" not scummy (is that a word?) more like just a haze around the water line. Is this just normal? or something else need to be done? It cleans off pretty easy but....
Could be I've always had this on all my tubs but this one is the first with a dark (blue) shell so it shows up. Just wipe it down every couple days or something else?

 

[Newdude]

Sitting in a hot tub equates to making people soup. Body oils, sweat, exfoliated skin, shampoo/conditioner, Laundry sauces, spilled drinks etc get slow boiled into the water. Some of that has to end up on the waterline, but most of it ends up filtered. Once or twice a year it’s a great idea to AhhSome the plumbing to remove all the gunk buillt up. I forget from your previous posts, Have you purged it recently ?

 

[A.O.]

Sitting in a hot tub equates to making people soup. Body oils, sweat, exfoliated skin, shampoo/conditioner, Laundry sauces, spilled drinks etc get slow boiled into the water. Some of that has to end up on the waterline, but most of it ends up filtered. Once or twice a year it’s a great idea to AhhSome the plumbing to remove all the gunk buillt up. I forget from your previous posts, Have you purged it recently ?

I have never purged it, or any tub I have ever owned actually . This one is new and I’ll probably try that at its next water change.

 

[Ahhsomeguy]

Please take note of what A.O.has stated. They have never purged any hot tub they have owned. This is what happens in many many cases. People just don't purge. There is no doubt in my mind that the tub in question needs purging. What A.O. is stating is what many people do. They really know that a purge is necessary and is the reason for their issues but they prolong the purge until the next water change. That tub needs it now, not in weeks or months. This is the way many hot tub owners handle this situation. They wait. This is not really A.O.'s fault. The industry is not doing it's part on informing users of biofilm. If they did provide Information to their dealers and the dealers pass it on to their clients millions of hot tub water issues would be eliminated. Of course there are other maintenance items that will also need to be followed but getting rid of the plumbing gunk is a big first step.

 

[A.O.]

Please take note of what A.O.has stated. They have never purged any hot tub they have owned. This is what happens in many many cases. People just don't purge. There is no doubt in my mind that the tub in question needs purging. What A.O. is stating is what many people do. They really know that a purge is necessary and is the reason for their issues but they prolong the purge until the next water change. That tub needs it now, not in weeks or months. This is the way many hot tub owners handle this situation. They wait. This is not really A.O.'s fault. The industry is not doing it's part on informing users of biofilm. If they did provide Information to their dealers and the dealers pass it on to their clients millions of hot tub water issues would be eliminated. Of course there are other maintenance items that will also need to be followed but getting rid of the plumbing gunk is a big first step.

Yeah, I’m thinking it does not need it now, new tub , special order about 3 weeks from build to my house.
I’ll be good till next water change I’m sure.
Never purged before because it didn’t use to be a “thing” and never had any problems with the water in any of my previous tubs, but I’m willing to give it a try.

 

[CuckooChris]

A.O., we'll be waiting to hear what you get after your first ahhsome purge. I'm guessing a sticky gooey water line afterwards that doesn't wipe off so easily. But that may have just been my tub and a few others here. Please don't take that the wrong way, I was a skeptic once too.

 

[Ahhsomeguy]

An effective purge product will definitely release that gooey sticky peanut buttery gunk and adhese to the shell at the waterline and especially in the filter well. You MUST wipe this stuff up soon after you see it so it doesn't dry out on the acrylic. This slimy sticky stuff has polysaccharide molecules galore in it. Yes, sugar! And it can be very very sticky. So, get yourself an old wet towel and wipe as you see it and you will not have to work hard to remove the bio-ring at the waterline because you will have previously wiped it away. We actually have users who say the purge didn't work and left all this hard to remove sticky stuff on the shell. The purge was successful but the user didn't fully understand exactly what to expect.

 

[A.O.]

A.O., we'll be waiting to hear what you get after your first ahhsome purge. I'm guessing a sticky gooey water line afterwards that doesn't wipe off so easily. But that may have just been my tub and a few others here. Please don't take that the wrong way, I was a skeptic once too.

Yeah, we'll see... Here the magic potion is this Ahhsome stuff, over at hot tub university its Spa Marvel , somewhere else I'm sure they have something else.. But like I said I'll give it a try anyway...

 

[Mdragger88]

If u tend to use moisturizing bodywashes, lotions or just have oily skin in general a scum bug can be helpful too. I just put mine in while I’m using the tub otherwise it sits on the side out of the water. It also serves the purpose of something i can squeeze water onto my feet with before i get in (my spa is outside)
Be sure to get a genuine one though as there are imposters!

 

[A.O.]

If u tend to use moisturizing bodywashes, lotions or just have oily skin in general a scum bug can be helpful too. I just put mine in while I’m using the tub otherwise it sits on the side out of the water. It also serves the purpose of something i can squeeze water onto my feet with before i get in (my spa is outside)
Be sure to get a genuine one though as there are imposters!
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And why do you squeeze water on your feet?? Just to rinse them off? We just wear flipflops, our tub is outside also.

 

[Mdragger88]

And why do you squeeze water on your feet?? Just to rinse them off? We just wear flipflops, our tub is outside also.

Yes - I always take off my shoes before getting on the steps / we also go between pool & hot tub (there’s grass in between)
I have always made every body rinse their feet.
When i had a little pool w/ no deck we had a foot rinsing bucket by the steps too

 

[A.O.]

Yes - I always take off my shoes before getting on the steps / we also go between pool & hot tub (there’s grass in between)
I have always made every body rinse their feet.
When i had a little pool w/ no deck we had a foot rinsing bucket by the steps too

Yeah, I have some sort of pavement all the way from the house to the pool and out to the hot tub so I'm ok there... flip flops in winter though cause that concrete is COLD!!