While it might seem like a hassle, keeping your spa clean and balanced on a weekly basis, will save you money, time and potentially costly issues in the future. Read our easy weekly spa maintenance tips below.
Be Consistent:
Consistency really is the key to having a beautiful spa week in, week out. We recommend taking the time to sketch up a quick schedule to keep you in a routine of maintaining your beautiful spa schedule and add reminders in your phone. If you live with others, you could make a spa maintenance roster.
Consistency also helps you to measure and improve how your spa is running. By consistently maintaining your spa you can easily detect when things aren’t working perfectly.
What to Check:
Daily:
Spa Cover - Don’t allow the cover to get damaged or accumulate water and debris on the top.
Water Temp - This will help you maintain a constant temperature, but any drastic change will indicate malfunction.
Every Few Days:
Sanitiser levels - A combination of heavy use and hot water take their toll on the sanitiser used, but whatever the source, the microorganisms present in the spa must be killed in some way or another and as quickly as possible. You should have a chlorine residual of 2-3 ppm or bromine residual of 4-6 ppm.
Alkalinity level and pH balances - By maintaining a perfectly balanced spa, you’re ensuring water safety. The pH level needs to be as close as possible to our eyes natural pH, which sits around 7.5 on a pH scale of 0-14.
To maintain a stable comfortable pH, soften spa water and protect equipment, we recommend using our BioGuard Perfect Balance.
Keep it Clean:
If you want a sparkling spa, cleaning it once a week will keep it looking brand new.
A product like BioGuard SPA Squeaky Clean removes scale, hard water deposits, and grease and dirt from along the water line so it will keep your spa surfaces looking clean and bright.
Every few days, cleaning above the water line will keep the drier areas of your spa from building up any dirt or water residue.
Filtration of your spa should be ongoing. To maintain water quality and cleanliness, your filter should run a minimum of four hours a day, even when it is not being used. Clean the filter with your garden hose to loosen dirt and debris and spray BioGuard SPA Filter Renew directly onto the filter.
By following our easy tips above, you’ll keep your spa in good condition, your water clean and healthy and everyone that uses your spa happy!