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Well thank you very much RDspaguy and CanadianSpaTech! I've ran a few pump cycles and it seems all good. I guess it really did just need some heat and cycling. I'll keep an eye on it, but I think it may be getting some use shortly. Now to sort out the massive collection of chemicals they left and attempt to get this thing where it needs to be.

So maybe this thing just needed to sit and get some heat into it? I let it heat up to 95*F and left the circ pump running all night and the floor is all dried up in there. I'll keep an eye on it for a bit longer, but now it's time to try the jets on. Fingers crossed something just needed to swell or moisten up and seal properly. No clue. I'll update again after I can run a few cycles today.

I have it on and the hush pump circulating/filtering the water right now. Is that sufficient, or do I need to go keep turning on the jets full speed?

Okay so I marked it last night around 9PM and it's down maybe 1/8" since then. Not a huge leak for with everything off. I've turned the power back on and turned the heat up to 95*F. I'll let the hush pump recirculate and filter the tub and the heater do it's thing for a while then go check. Once it drops below filter level I'll kill the power again and see what happens. If it's only going down 1/8" in like 15 hours then we're in for a long wait until it finally drops to the leak level. I'll see how this goes with it on, but the Wife is impatient and just wants me to drain it down below the light level and silicon the 4-5 jets that are above that level. Hopefully we can get this thing running before May.

Okay well it's entirely off and sitting to see if the leak continues. The temperature in the water only got up to around 70*F. Maybe that's way too cold to have the gaskets swell? I can always turn it back on and let it heat back up. What temperature is required do you think? I will definitely wait before I start siliconing the whole thing. I hate silicon personally so I'd really rather not. Worst case I guess I rip all the skirting off and start digging around in insulation until I find a wet spot. Not sure what I could use as replacement skirting if I can't get this stuff off nicely, but I'm sure I can source something. I'd love to go and replace all the gaskets on all the jets and refresh this whole thing, but the time required would be insane. I'm really trying to get this thing working as the addition was build around the tub. There is no way to get it out without a chainsaw and that seems like a huge waste. If it really can't be saved I'll turn this room into a home gym and slap a new one on the patio instead. Thanks and I'll update this thread once I can get a feeling on the leak with the power entirely off.

Yeah apparently you can slide them out (good luck) if you can get the tub on its side. That isn't really an option for me. It's inside an addition that doesn't have the ceiling height to flip this thing on its side. So I'll be cutting them off one way or another. I'll try to make clean cuts and reinstall them with some trim covering the cuts or something. Not entirely sure. The light is on the front (pump) side to the left. The pumps are all outside the tub unit on a beachcomber. Doesn't look like I can get that skirting off easily either. Sigh. Great design until you need to work on it at all. I'll see if this thing keeps leaking. If it doesn't, I'll drain it to below the problem area and then take a look at some of the jets. Didn't realize they're held on from the back with a nut just like the light housing. Ugh. There really has to be a better mounting method that's more serviceable. Someone would make a fortune if they figured it out. Actually I guarantee there are better ways, but they probably cost slightly more so it's never going to happen. I could just attack everything above the leak water level with silicon and give that a go. Then maybe run some fix-a-leak and hope for the best. I'd like something a little more permanent if I'm going to leave this thing filled in my house. Kinda scary that we could leave and it might leak everywhere.

I've seen hot tubs where there are a couple screws and the side panels come off. That'd be great, but ours are nothing like that. It looks like 1.5" tongue and grove pieces that have no exposed fasteners. I assume they're glued top and bottom. Looks like they would be a bit of a nightmare to try and remove without major damage. Easier might be to set the depth on a skill saw and try to cleanly cut a square access hatch or something out. Problem with that is I would literally have to make like 6 around the exterior of the tub. I could go one at a time and hope I get lucky, but we all know how that usually goes. It was filled according to the manual. The skimmer/filter assembly was halfway floating up. The water level was definitely more than 6" away from the top of the tub. The hush pump runs almost constantly for filtration, so I'd have to cut the power to the tub altogether. I can do that, but I'm almost 100% sure it will keep leaking until the water level gets down to where it stopped before. Just sucks that there is literally no easy way to find the leak nor fix it. I'll go kill the power and see what happens.

So we purchased a house that has an addition in it with a 2002 Beachcomber 720. It has sat empty for at least 5 years, but it looks like it was cleaned and put away properly. We filled it up a couple days ago and noticed some leaking at the pump couplers. They were loose as the people must have removed them to fully empty the tub. We gave them a tighten and things looked perfect. We were so happy. All the pumps/heater/controller/etc all seemed to be working perfectly. We added some hot tub pipe cleaner and let it run that night. In the morning we noticed a little water on the floor. Seems like there is a small leak from somewhere. I did some reading and took a guess at the light. We drained the water to just below the light and I took a look at it yesterday. The leaking seems to have stopped so it either has to do with the light or the top jets that are no longer under water. Light: It looked like it had a two hairline cracks in the front bezel of the housing. After looking up the fact that I would have to damage my tubs siding and remove insulation, etc to get to the back side, I decided to try and use some GE 100% silicon around it and hope for the best. I did that, waited 30 hours to refill the tub. We did that last night and woke up to water on the floor again. So here we are with a leaking hot tub still. Any ideas? I assumed seals and gaskets and o-rings would have been dried out and ruined after being left dry for so long. The couplers and whole front pump/heater/controller area is surprisingly dry. No leaks from any of that stuff. So I'm left with the light still leaking or the upper jets. Are there seals/gaskets I should be looking at/changing out on the jets? I've never owned a hot tub before so I'm at the limit of my knowledge here. Thanks!