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If you need filters for the hot tub, I haven't been able to find anyone who can beat these guys on price, Pool and Hot Tub Depot, have lots of pool stuff too, also carry Taylor test reagents if you need some of those. Similar deal with $90 to get free shipping, but the flat rate shipping isn't...

That's the plan, was hoping someone would have been doing this for years and say no issues! Worst case I guess drain, flush, and go back to the old schedule if the water takes a turn.

No 24hr pump, just the main pump runs on low speed. It's a Beachcomber SST-10 which is a re-branded custom Balboa pack, but looks to be something like the VS501, 4 button top panel, basic controller/lcd. Yes, it has economy mode, so the idea was to have it filter and heat around when we use the...

Seems to be lots of variations on filter cycling between brands and online these days. My spa has a Balboa VS pack, which only allows the choice between 1 day cycle, 1 night cycle, or 2 cycles 12 hours apart. The default is two cycles 12 hours apart, 2hr duration. My question is, is it...

Yes for sure, I started the TFP Bleach method, the SWG keeps things pretty much stable except when bathing load is high, it's due for a spring full drain and re-fill, I will start off fresh with a round of aeration and acid, also looking to add some borates this time around as well.

Wow, thanks for running actual experiments to help figure this out! I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out if I was testing wrong or if my reagents were bad as the results were consistently much higher than the lab results. For the fiberglass Spa I was only really worried about scaling...

Ok thanks, will try adding them quicker and see if it changes the result. Last test was pH 7.8 and TA was 310 ppm.

Yes, that's the procedure I am following for drop additions. I did get a SpeedStirr and it actually made the fading occur at a higher number of R-0012 drops, I thought it might be the aeration from the stirring, but I expected a cleaner transition with speedstirr and it made it worse. I have...

I am measuring the well water right from the hard water tap the readings are consistently high ~380 ppm CH with the Taylor k-2006 test kit, reagents are new, expiry 2022.

I had looked at a RO in the past, but at this point the sulfate doesn't seem to be affecting anything, at least not that we notice, a quick google seems to indicate that at 100 mg/L its pretty much harmless. Now the other question, we do have a water softener, I usually fill the Spa with hard...

Thanks @JoyfulNoise for the detailed comments. Let me see if I can answer your questions the best I can. We have a deep well about 180 feet deep, we are located in southern Ontario, inland, about 70 km from the great lakes at the closest point. My SWG occasionally has some small flakes but...

Well after a several years in the house we decided to get a full well water analysis done, mostly because there had been reports of dangerously high levels of arsenic and and barium in the region and we wanted to make sure we didn't have any issues, bonus is get to see what the full lab analysis...