umjorge2

Thanks for the advice. I'm just doing what my local spa dealership told me to do with the chemicals. These chemicals are what I'm suppose to add weekly and when I refill a tub, I'm suppose to add more, according to their recommendations. The rendezvous enhance I'm using is part a: a liquid and part b: a powder.

So yesterday I decided to change the water in our hot tub for the first time in 5 months, since the wether was warm enough since that long to actually do it. I put in all the right chemicals as it was re-filling with the recommended start up amounts and spacing the time between adding them so that each one had enough time to react with the water. After letting it heat up overnight and checking it today, this slimy brown line has formed at the water line, at certain places in the tub. Its not everywhere, but its gross and unsightly. Its especially bad around the filters where a bunch of it has collected and floating on top of the water in a congealed like way. Like I said changed the water yesterday and water chemistry is balanced according to the test strip with all the chemicals I'm suppose to use and the tub has not been used since then. I should mention that after I filled the tub, I did noticed what appeared to be an oil like slick on top of the water in some places, particularly around the filters, which I found strange since it was clean water I just put in and it didn't seem like it was that much to cause this much slime potentially. When it was drained all I did was give it a good rinse with a pressure washer. Didn't really scrub it down or anything. So whats the deal? Here are the chemicals I used in this order: Protect plus, Spa Clarifier, Enhance part A and B, Natural Clear Clarifier. Startup amounts are more than the weekly amounts so I'm wondering, has one of the chemicals congealed something in the water to make it do that?

After butchering the cedar panel siding of my 17 year old tub and tearing out foam to locate several incessant leaks over the last few months, I've found the leaks coming from behind several of the jets where the PVC elbow fitting meets the flex pipe. Whats the best way to fix this? Could I seal it with marine epoxy or some sorta plumbers putty? PVC glue?

I'll try to post a picture but all I can see in there are some thicker white PVC pipes that come into where the pumps are. One of them has a red handle on top. Nothing really obvious to me that there would be a drain but then again I don't know what I'm looking at. What nozzle inside the tub would the water drain out through? Not sure if I mentioned it but there is no drain hole on the outside skirt of the tub.

I bought a used hot tub and currently its standing up on its end with the underside exposed. I'm getting some spray foam insulation done to my house and thought it would be a good idea to add some extra to my tub at the same time, for better insulation, at least in my mind. The way it is now, some of the pipes are still visible near where the factory foam insulation begins. But I was wondering, since I live in a very cold climate with sub zero temperatures all winter, would adding extra foam insulation to the bottom actually be bad for it, since you want a bit of heat inside that area that comes from the tub to keep some of those pipes warm, as well as the pumps? The extra insulation would be good for keeping the water in the tub warm, but do you want some of its heat inside that area so that nothing freezes?

I bought a used hot tub and currently its standing up on its end with the underside exposed. I'm getting some spray foam insulation done to my house and thought it would be a good idea to add some extra to my tub at the same time, for better insulation, at least in my mind. The way it is now, some of the pipes are still visible near where the factory foam insulation begins. But I was wondering, since I live in a very cold climate with sub zero temperatures all winter, would adding extra foam insulation to the bottom actually be bad for it, since you want a bit of heat inside that area that comes from the tub to keep some of those pipes warm, as well as the pumps? The extra insulation would be good for keeping the water in the tub warm, but do you want some of its heat inside that area so that nothing freezes?

Like around where the pumps are?

Bought a hot tub second hand and I don't think it has any kind of drain valve or anything that allows it to drain through the internal plumbing (just waiting to confirm that from the person I bought it off of). So I'm wondering can you somehow add a means to drain through the existing piping, using one of the water circulation jets without having to drill a hole in the shell to add one? (I wouldn't be comfortable compromising the shell for that). And since it gets very cold here where I live would there be issues with freezing pipes or anything? My plan would be to have it buried underground (a foot or so) and enter the basement through the foundation and drain into the same pipe that my clothes washer drains into. How about filling it again with water through similar means? Siphoning/pumping it outside is a bit of an issue since I live in a dense city neighborhood and we are not allowed to drain pools or anything like that onto the street/back lane. And in the winter it would be a nightmare to try to drain it like that in sub-zero temperatures and 2 feet of snow on the ground.