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Why couldn't you run the spa at 25%, but keep the heater going?

We connected everything last week, to heat up the pool and spa for a party. Cold snap today, so we'll see what the weather looks like and if we want to try to keep the spa separate once it warms up a bit.

We just have a solar cover for the spa. Better than nothing, but not serious insulation. I think my issue is that maintaining the pool is so easy. Because of the volume, you can guesstimate your chemical additions a bit, and everything still turns out fine. The spa? I'm adding 1/4 cup (!!!?!) of...

That's pretty much what we do, but sometimes we stretch it a day. For example, we heated the spa on Friday afternoon, and with family over all day Saturday I just turned off the pool filter and covered the spa. Saturday morning it just had to go from 80 to 94, which was pretty quick. After...

We are using our attached gunite spa almost daily. We won't start heating the whole pool until March. Right now, I'll keep the pool water from mixing with the spa water for at most a couple of days, then I'll run the whole system together for a while. Rinse and repeat. This way I don't have to...

I'm thinking about using this for my pool cartridge filter. How did it work for you?

Hubby is an electrical engineer, and we are experienced DIYers.. but we call the professionals when we need to. Please call a licensed electrician. Your family's safety is at stake.

I think we've successfully dealt with the jetted bathtub. I'll run and clean it more frequently from now on to avoid biofilm buildup. What about the spa that's attached to our pool? Should we run this through once every so often?

We have a jacuzzi bathtub that hasn't been used since we installed our pool and spa. Turned it on and... Yuck. After a couple of rounds with cascade and bleach and more black gunk, I ordered ahh-some from Amazon. I think I got the wrong stuff but used it anyway (about a tablespoon) and got a...

I've been reading about Ahhsome.. As long as my levels are good and I remix the whole pool and spa together every week or two, I shouldn't have to use anything like that, right?

I like CC under .5. I'd raise the chlorine to the higher end of the recommended range until CC goes down. Either increase the runtime or SWG chlorine generation percentage. Good luck!!!

I've been running them separately for the week to gauge the chems. Both pool and spa needed acid, but in different amounts, and while both had high chlorine levels, the spa was higher. Since they are both the same temp right now, to keep it simple, I "rejoined" them, (turned the valve) started...

Chlorine and pH levels maintained at the same level as the pool?

That makes sense. I can recirculate the whole thing every few weeks.. I just hate heating the spa on Saturday night, then mixing it with the cold pool water, then reheating it Sunday night....

OK, it's become clear that we 1) don't want to pay to heat the whole pool very often, and 2) DO want to use the spa as long as air temps are not too cold. With that, I've set the valves so that when the main pool filter is running it does NOT send water into the spa. The plan is to heat the spa...

Ours is pretty big (8×8) so the bottom is has enough room the the robot can get around, then climb the seats and do the waterline.

Done.

I think it's the second. When filter is in pool mode, pool water comes up through the spa and waterfalls spill over into the pool, UNLESS we set the filter to low. Then the spa doesn't spill over into the pool. I think that we could keep the water separate, as long as we switch from spa to "low...

My robot did a good job in our spa, too!

We have not really used the spa much until now, since guidance was to not heat water above 90 degrees during curing time. Spa is on same pump and SWCG as the pool. Yesterday we set the pump to "spa", spa heat to 99, heater to auto, and it heated it right up. To keep the heat in a bit, when we...