To keep crystal clear water in the hot tub, carefully maintain water quality by adding an adequate amount of sanitizer, clarifiers, and pH-balancing chemicals. Regularly cleaning the hot tub filters and maintaining a hygienic soaking routine also helps to keep the tub water clean and clear. Replace the water regularly, and clean the hot tub during that process.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This blog post will further explain how you can keep your hot tub water clean and clear. And if it is not clear, how you can make your hot tub water crystal clear. I will also answer some other often asked questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When it comes to maintaining your hot tub water, every owner should keep a few key points in mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chlorine is the necessary sanitizing agent in hot tubs with a chlorine-based system. Others may have a bromine-based system. Your water gets a lot of organic residues when people use the hot tub. The sanitizer in the water is used up when it reacts with the organic residues. The absence of enough sanitizer levels in the water may cause cloudiness due to algal or bacterial growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To avoid such issues and keep the water crystal clear, regularly add a capful of sanitizer. In case of heavy bather load, make sure to add a capful of sanitizer dose per person in the tub water after the soaking session. Shock the tub at least once a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An effective way to maintain adequate sanitizer levels in your hot tub water is to avoid dirt and debris getting into the hot tub water. It may be dry leaves and twigs from surrounding vegetation. It could be air-born dirt like bird droppings or pollens in the wind. I always recommend using a hot tub cover. That helps block such contaminants from falling into the hot tub water and avoids dust or other stuff that can make the hot tub water cloudy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep a skimmer near the hot tub along with other hot tub accessories. It helps remove any visible foreign substance in the hot tub water. It could be floating fiber clumps from the clothes of a bather, dry leaves, or food residue in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Removing them quickly from the water using a skimmer keeps the water clean and helps bring down the strain on the hot tub filters. It is also useful to remove any suds from detergent residue in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A major reason for cloudy or foamy hot tub water is the detergent residue in bather clothing. To avoid it, ask bathers to take a quick shower before soaking. This will help wash off any soap, detergent residue, or hair shampoo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I recommend using a swimsuit only for the hot tub. One that is not frequently washed using soap and only rinsed in clean water. It will help avoid sudsy water in the hot tub. Similarly, ensuring bathers wear shower caps avoids hair shampoo, conditioner, or oil residues mixing in the hot tub water. It also avoids fallen hair clogging your filters. It will help to keep the tub water clean and crystal clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The general water quality in a hot tub depends on clean and properly functioning filters. If filters are not cleaned regularly, it will eventually lead to the hot tub water quality turning cloudy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Take out the filter once a week or bi-weekly if you use your hot tub, not that regularly. Spray it down using a garden hose. In the case of hot tubs used daily, you need to clean filters at least once in two days. Once a week, submerge the filter in a mixture of white vinegar and water to deep clean it. After an hour or more, spray down the petals of the filter with a garden hose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For keeping the tub water crystal clear, you need to regularly test the water to check if it is chemically balanced. Any shift in the presence of essential chemicals in the hot tub water would make it cloudy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For instance, you should keep the pH level of the hot tub water between 7.2 and 7.6. Anything above or below that range may lead to the hot tub water turning cloudy. Hot tub water that is beyond the optimal pH range may gradually corrode tub parts or sediment the metal content in the water. These may turn the water tinted or cloudy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Low calcium hardness in the hot tub water may cause foamy water. The water's total alkalinity should be around 100 ppm, and sanitizer levels should be adequate not to allow any algal or bacterial growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you do not test and balance the levels regularly, the water will turn cloudy, foamy, or stinky. Instead of using test strips, I recommend using a Tylor Kit for testing hot tub water. Always test your water using only one kind of testing mechanism as the readings from different methods are not comparable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even if you religiously test and balance the hot tub water and clean the filters, there is a limit in how long you can retain the sparkling crystal clear quality of your hot tub water. This period declines the more you use your hot tub. In such cases, you would feel that the water does not anymore feel pristine despite the readings showing no issue. It indicates that you need to drain and refill the hot tub. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I recommend you drain and refill the hot tub once every four months. You can extend this up to 8 months if you can maintain the water quality. While draining and refilling, ensure to use a jet cleaner like Ahh-some to purge the tub. It will take out the gunk in the plumbing. After removing the gunk, maintaining the crystal clear quality of the refilled water is easy. Do not forget to clean the hot tub itself after removing the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"How-do-I-keep-my-hot-tub-water-crystal-clear\"](\"https:\/\/www.wintersunexpert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/How-do-I-keep-my-hot-tub-water-crystal-clear.jpg\")
How do I keep my hot tub water crystal clear<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
– Sanitise the hot tub water<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
– Keep away all kinds of debris<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
– Keep the skimmer handy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
– Use hot tub only swimsuits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
– Clean and replace filters regularly<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
– Test and Balance water (pH & calcium hardness)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
– Purge and refill once in six months<\/h3>\n\n\n\n