How To Prepare Your Home Spa For Winter

As the cold winter months draw near, if you own a hot tub or spa in your home

, you are left with two choices. You can drain and cover your home spa, or if you wish to keep enjoying your spa during winter, you can choose to flush it and place fresh water in it. Regardless of your decision, you must act fast to keep your home spa in good shape and save money and energy at the same time. Improper draining or winterizing may eventually damage your home spa. Here are some tips on how to keep your spa in top shape during the winter months.

To prepare your hot tub or spa for the winter, check out the manual so you will know what needs to be done to get it ready. If your spa has a freeze protection system, switch it on and ensure that the heat settings are a little higher than usual. If your home spa comes with a timer/auto heat mode selector, use this to prevent freezing.

If you have no freeze protection, place the timer switch to cycle on at regular intervals. In cool places, it might help if you cycle on at least 15 minutes every hour. This extra run time is crucial in cold weather. But if you use your home spa daily, less energy is required to maintain a constant temperature than allowing the device to cool off and heating it up again.

Before shutting off your home spa, use a degreaser to remove oils from skin and bath products. You will usually find these in the pipes and jets. Do so 24 hours before draining the hot tub. Use an underwater pump to remove water. Then clean the vents and filters. Remove the cartridge filter from the skimmer. Clean the skimmer entrance with a cloth soaked in filter cleaner. Always use gloves when doing so. Soak the filter in a bucket of water together with the recommended filter cleaner to remove oils and sediments. Rinse well and put this aside.

Lastly, use a vacuum to get the remaining water and reinsert the filter cartridge into the skimmer. Use a non-abrasive polish to clean the surfaces of your home spa.

by: Amy Appleton

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