spa

I recently (a few months ago) started assisting with pool operations at a small hotel. The person I assist told me that we have to add total alkalinity every morning to bring the levels up since the drop every day. For example, if I add bicarb in the morning and bring the level up to 80ppm (the...

We have an inground spa. The jets run on their own dedicated pump separate from the filter pump. Water gets drawn from the spa's base, into the pump and pushed out the spa jets. A closed system but for the air inlet valve to agitate the water. When I close the air inlet all but one of the jets...

New inground pool build. All of the spa jets have good water pressure with the pump running. Once the blower is engaged, one of jets doesn't have any air pressure. We have had the plumber out to inspect the 1" line inside the plumbing internals and he reseated and tested. That was not the...

We have a pool and spa combo (kidney shaped roughly 35'x15') built in 1985 with the original lights still (somewhat?) functional. Both lights are ~6" spa lights. The one in the spa functions perfectly and I have never even had to change the bulb in the 2.5 years we've been living here. The...

New pool built. Pool and spa are separate bodies of water. We have a salt cell system, pool and spa run at separate times of day. Pool water can go into spa but not vise versa. Lately we’ve been seeing this blue powder in the spa, my pool technician says it’s from the spa being over chlorinated.

We inherited an older pool and hot tub. Both beautiful! When we first moved in the jets in the hot tub had tiny bubbles in them all the time, even when the little air vents were cranked all the way down. I was also losing water in the pool so I had some leak repair work done, the weir edges in...

Issue: Hot tub is above pool, and empties into the pool. When the pump turns off, the water level of the hot tub is falling to the height of the jets. Problem: I've seen many posts here describing the same issue, and a faulty check valve is always mentioned. Help / Question: Where is the...

Hi All, Quick question - Is there a BIG difference in efficiency to get one of the below over the other? I'm in Central California where winter temps get down to 40's and maybe a freeze here and there but no snow. Cover 1 - 30oz Marine Vinyl, 83" x 83" with 5" skirt , 4"-2" taper with 2lb...

I've been scratching my head on this one. After reading various posts, I performed the following troubleshooting with no resolution: Replaced Check Valve Done a dye method to see if water is leaking in the SPA only (doesn't go anywhere, maybe to slow to detect) Placed valves B and E in the...

Hello, When we got our spa we bought some sodium thiosulfate that came in handy whenever we accidentally added too much chlorine. The cover on the spa (275 gal.) is on except when in use in evenings and when adding chemicals and sits in the shade all the time. It definitely did the trick and of...

Hi TFP, I have a leak in my spa that’s connected to my pool. Previous owner used epoxy to patch but it’s now leaking. I used food coloring to see that the food coloring is going thru the patch. In the attached picture, you’ll see the gray and white epoxy patch. What’s the best way to DIY fix...

I purchased a house at the beginning of August that came with a 2005 Sundance Majesta Hot Tub (Sentry Controller 850 LCD 6600-098 Rev D) I kept it around 90F for the summer until a few weeks ago when I increased the setting to 100F, but the temperature never got over 95F. The heat indicator...

I have a hot tub with Gecko S Class circuit board. When I went to heat up the tub earlier, started smelling burning smell and started seeing smoke. I shut off power immediately! A few hours later I opened the circuit board box and found that one of the cables from heater burned as well as where...

Hi. My spa light went out and I attempted to replace the T4 100W 120V halogen bulb. Not hard to do , except that the ceramic (?) base that the T4's prongs insert into has completed disintegrated. Any thoughts on what my options are? Has anyone ever done a in-enclosure repair? I am hesitant to. A...

Hi all, We recently bought a house that came with a hot tub and above ground pool. Thanks to this site, I got the chemistry on both balanced beautifully!!! Unfortunately, I'm now having a different issue with the spa I'm hoping you can help with. Basically, it won't heat up. The error code on...

I have rapidly reach the limits of my competence. I’m a new pool and hot tub owner (both came with the house I purchased in April). I have not touched the hot tub until the last several days. The previous owner said something was wrong with some of the jets but didn’t know and didn’t want to fix...

I am building a new custom hot tub and want to make sure what the builder is telling me is accurate. I greatly appreciate any help and I am willing to donate to the forum for assistance. I live in Colorado and would like to be able to use the hot tub year round at 104 degrees. The average high...

Good morning. i recently purchased a home and have researched to find that I have a 1996 Hydro Air Spa that is connected to my pool. The suction covers at the base of the spa are missing. I have been researching to determine if any new covers would work, but have not had any luck. So I...

I'm planning on starting the construction of a pool with flush spa during the upcoming weeks. The current plan is to use a single Intellifo3 pump and Intellichlor SWG for the water circulation/chlorination. The attached diagram shows the planned pool/spa piping and valve diagram. One of the...

I am redoing my spa plumping. Previous installation the air pipes where so high up, they had to make 2" step around the spa to hide the air piping. Since I am remodeling, I am thinking of putting air pipes below water pipes. Instructions says the air connections (spigot) should be facing up. I...

Hi there! Our equipment is getting installed and had a question about the blower. It’s mounted to our house. Is this how you would do it or would you have to free standing? Just curious how much noise we will experience inside the house from it being on the wall? Thanks!

To my knowledge the spa blower at house has not worked in awhile. Replaced spa blower and blower powers on but after a few minutes shuts off. I believe the air line and air injectors in bottom of spa are clogged. My question… is there a way to get the air injectors cover/top off? It...

Hi there! We are currently building our pool and they are setting the flagstone for our three spillways. Can you tell me: - What is the ideal overhang amount would be? - Should the spillway be flat/level, angled towards the pool or angled towards the spa/hot tub? Any other advice is...

Hello All, I've been reading this forum for advice as we have run into issues with our PB and have had to do the plumbing on our own. The SPA is fiberglass with no spillover, a Latham Royal Spa. It's pre-plumbed with the 2 loops top and bottom with 4 x air/water body each (8 total), 2 main...

Last October we had a small in ground pool and spa installed. They are both from fiberglass shells from Latham, the Milan and the Royal. The plumbing of the two pools are completely separated, each have their own pump, heater, filter, etc. Our issue is with the Royal. Its roughly 10’ square...

In about 2 weeks we should have our 375 gallon hot tub finally in place, and on the advice of this this forum and r/hottub I went ahead and got the Taylor test kit and just tested my fill water last night, and learned some more things about the wonderful limestone aquifers the ground source...

My spa doesn’t have a dedicated blower. Instead there seems to be an air intake pipe that emits gargling sounds when I set my system in spa mode. That pipe is near the pool equipment, which is about 30 feet from where the spa is. When I turn on the spa mode, I hear the pump ramp up, and the...

Hi, My Pentair intellivalve actuator is not switching to Auto mode.i shows red light and and nothing happens when I press the mode button. This is causing water overflow from the pool and not heat up properly when spa is turned on. Have any of you faced this issue and is there anything I can do...

SOLVED: Venturi tees are restrictive https://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/solved-venturi-tees-are-restrictive-heater-bypass-next.269119/post-2358505 TLDR: At 1250 and 3450 RPM, I get 30 and 60 GPM in Spa mode (6 returns), but 45 and 105 GPM in Pool mode (3 returns), measured via a FlowVis...

New pool owner- trying to figure out how this timer works?? It goes to inground spa pump. At what time does it trip? On/off.