This January 1, 2016, we have a friendly reminder from the hot tub and spa industry… New year, new filter! Please replace your filter every twelve (12) months. Even in hot tubs and spas with lower than normal usage or bather loads, the fibrous material used to manufacture filters naturally loosens and can clog over time.
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“Hot Tubs are Gross”, “Brown Sludge Hot Tubs”, “Covered in Biofilm Germs”. Recent media coverage has drawn attention to the importance of cleaning your hot tub on a regular basis. The news stories made hot tubs look like abominable bodies of water, overloaded with sanitizing chemicals. Several reports kept addressing biofilm, without explaining specifics. To
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Swimming pool owners are all too familiar with algae growth, but did you know hot tub algae exists? While much rarer thanks to the use of hot tub covers, algae can still pose a problem. What Is Algae? Defined as “a simple nonflowering plant of a large group that includes the seaweeds and many single-celled
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Are you among the 78% of hot tub owners who suspend their stress-relieving soaks during the summer months? An online survey showed the vast majority of hot tub aficionados choose to close their tubs instead of using a cool water temperature from late June to early September. While it may conflict with popular opinion, your
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In order to prolong the life of your hot tub, and to ensure user safety and comfort, regular water quality analysis is essential. In the past, many hot tub owners embraced the complicated liquid test kits to guarantee balanced chemical properties. Over the years, hot tub test strips gained in popularity. Once considered inaccurate or
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Whether you’re recovering from a workout, or rehabbing an injury, it’s tempting to turn to your hot tub for relief. But contrary to popular belief, your hot tub may not always be the solution. Depending on the problem, an ice bath could help you recover faster, although it may not be quite as pleasant. Recovery
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All this talk of ‘hot’ tubs. Is there any such thing as an ice tub? Surprisingly yes. The idea may not sound appealing to many, but ice bathing is currently undergoing a sharp increase in popularity. Sometimes referred to as ‘cold-water immersion therapy’, it is a technique being increasing used in sports therapy following a
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How many people can claim that their hot tub saved their lives? You wouldn’t think very many but one man has declared exactly that. You might wonder how. Did his hot tub give him CPR? Perform the Heimlich maneuver? Cure him from some wasting disease? None of the above. It did however give him a
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Bathing doesn’t always have to be done in water. Bathing in hot mud is almost as old a tradition as bathing in hot water. In fact mud baths have existed for thousands of years and can now be found in many high end spas worldwide. There are plenty of benefits of mud, one of the
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According to statistics, around 62% of North Americans have a pet, and the chances of a pet owner also being a hot tub owner are high. For you cat lovers, you probably don’t have to worry about the relationship between your pet and your hot tub as it’s fairly obvious to any cat owner how
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