How to Maintain Your Hot Tub and Avoid Spa Repair

If you’re running a spa or have a hot tub at home, you can have your own way of maintaining your hot tub. Spa repair can get pricey depending on the problem you need fixed. So, the best way to fork out money is to keep the good condition of your hot tub.

Your hot tub should not only look clean and unblemished, it should perform at optimum too. The whole point of getting one is for relaxation. If it doesn’t perform well, the satisfaction you’ll get may not be what you paid for. Here are the most important parts of your hot tub to focus on so you can prevent costly spa repair:

• Filters

You should know that a hot tub filter lasts a year at maximum. But every time you change the water, you must also switch the used filter with a dry one. The dry filter is better at killing microorganisms. Also, this helps prolong the life span of your filters.

The importance of replacing your filters every year is to avoid sucking particles that can affect the pump. When the filter is old, it creates larger spaces that clog these particles. So, if you don’t change the filters, you are putting the health of your spa pump to.

One tip though, you can rinse filters every two weeks or soak them every 3 to 4 months. Do this to prolong the life span of your filter cartridges.

• Cover

Hot tubs need protectants. This serves as protection from the sunlight which can cause discoloration on your hot tub covers. Also, protectants help preserve your cover and avoid possible cracking. Protectants can be applied every month, especially during summer and every 3- 4 months on the other months. Do note that this only applies if your hot tub is outdoors. However, putting protectants on indoor hot tubs won’t be harmful too.

• Drainage

A common spa repair problem is drainage. Your problem with the drains will depend on how and how often the hot tub is used. For outdoor hot tubs, drainage can be a problem during the winter months. Winterization is what you need to do to prepare your hot tub this season. This process involves draining all the water from the tub to avoid freezing of internal parts.

You can do away with simple ways of maintaining your hot tub but of course, professional maintenance is still needed. The companies that provide spa repair services also offer maintenance services. It is best that you call the guys who installed your hot tub in the first place.

Apollo Pools

235 W. Brandon Blvd Suite #135, Brandon, FL 33511

813-703-1470

http://apollopools.net/

Need Spa Repair? Choose the Right Guy for the Job

The Florida heat is getting to you and what’s worse is that your pool or spa has just broken down. What an unfortunate time for this to happen but there’s no other way to deal with this matter than to call a pool repair or spa repair technician.

But before you go calling a pool repair guy, you have to check a few things first. Is the spa failing to heat up? Is your pool or spa losing water? How often do you check the water balance? When did you last cleaned your cartridge filter? Knowing more specifics about your pool or spa will be helpful in letting you find the right guy to do the job.

Back then, people would try to find a spa repair technician from a newspaper or classified ads but with technology today, there’s no reason why shouldn’t do an online search. This will literally cut your time in half and you can narrow down your search to a specific location. Once you got a few candidates, contact each of them. Be quite specific with your questions as this can help you pick the right pool repair technician.

Over the phone, describe your pool or spa problem with him. Ask for an approximate estimate of the repair costs. But what you must observe is how the spa repair technician will fix the problem. Through his answers alone, you’ll be able to gauge if the technician is knowledgeable enough to do the repairs. If you’re not convinced, you have other candidates to consider.

If your pool or spa has electrical problems, you can expect a higher service rate for that. And often, you need to look for a registered electrician and not just a pool repair guy. Finding an electrician for a spa or pool is harder but you can always ask for referrals from the company you bought the fixture from.

Given that you already picked someone to do the repairs, ask him to come over and inspect your pool or spa personally. Just within a few minutes of inspection, a good spa repair technician can already pinpoint the problem and will tell you immediately how to fix it. This shows his experience in his line of work. Further, a good technician will educate you about preventative maintenance so you won’t have to face similar pool or spa problems in the future.

Now don’t even try to do the repairs yourself especially if you’re trying to keep the costs down. Spa and pool repairs are a specialty and only experts can fix the problem properly.

Apollo Pools
3709 Lithia Pinecrest Road, Valrico, FL 33596, USA

(813) 689-5197

http://apollopools.net