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Yeah I guess I hadn’t taken that into account. With the other tub we empty every 3 days so the CUa never builds up. Will keep a closer eye.

Ah I wasn’t aware of that. We rinsed it but didn’t purge it properly Can you get Ahhsome in the UK? Or an alternative?

So alongside our holiday let hot tub we got our own recently. We can obviously run this for longer, not having to empty it every 3 days or so. So far so good I thought. Water has been in about 4 weeks so far, and have maintained Chlorine and pH correctly. (I aim for about 3ppm. It’s dropped...

Hi all Thanks for your help so far. Really got into the swing of things now after 3 months of testing and adjusting. My general routing is now: On fill, 50g Bicarb, 10g Dichlor. That keeps the water at about 60 TA, 4.5 FCl and 7.3-7.4 pH. I then add 2x Trichlor floaters to keep the Cl...

1.5 hours from 10c to 40c And a big bag of logs 🙂

I’ve been targetting 5ppm. Which is usually easy in the evening. Then in the morning targetting the same but it takes a whole lot more chlorine! But yes good idea. What level could we have it at without it causing discomfort? I’m not sure if we are allowed to go over 5ppm due to the H&S...

Nice one, I’ve found a net with a really fine mesh so will see how that works. if it takes 40g of DiChlor to get the FCl back to 5ppm is that the best route or use non-chlorine shock first?

Any ideas what this is? fresh fill yesterday so can’t be anything too bad. I’m thinking either ash from the burner or just soap scum? It wasn’t immediately visible but came up after having the bubbles on for a while. very difficult to get rid of. Had to wrap our skimmer net in a pair of...

Thank you! And yes it certainly helps they won’t notice. It’s just be nice if there wasn’t hair etc floating in the mornings so I think I’ll try turning up the floater a bit more and see how it goes. It’s quite good fun seeing guests use the tub. As it’s wood burning there’s trial and error...

Hi all Thanks for the help so far. So we’ve been running the hot tub for a couple of weeks now with guests. keeping TA around 50-60 PH stays around 7.5 I’m still struggling to get the FCl right though. I’m testing in the AM and it’s nearly always 0.5ppm. I then dose it up to 5ppm. This drop...

Some measurements from today: PH 7.4 FC 3.26ppm CC 1.28ppm TC 4.54ppm CYA 15ppm

Hi As mentioned before, we have a holiday let and have just installed a Wood Burning hot tub. It gets emptied between guests, or once per week, whatever is sooner. We use Dichlor as a sanitiser. I'm just getting used to testing and adjusting. Now I'm using Dichlor (was Calcium Hypo before)...

Sounds good I’ll give it a go without first. I like the idea of alternating. Will help me use up this tub for Cal Hypo too! Thanks

Sounds good thanks I’ve got the hang of things now and can get nice readings with just 50g TA+ and 3g of chlorine However I’ve only got Calcium Hypo as Chlorine which I’ve noticed makes the pH drift by about 0.6+ over a day. So after a bit of reading it seems DiChlor would be best to switch to...