Importance Of Cleaning Your Hot Tub Filter

It is important to always keep your hot tubs as well as its filters immaculately clean. This is because the filter in the hot tub traps all sorts of debris, contaminants, metals and dirt that is brought about by the hot water. Because of this the filters help to make sure that the hot tubs operate efficiently and that the water that you would be dipping yourself in is sanitized and clear. Continued use of hot tubs that has clogged filters on them can cause unfiltered debris to damage the tub’s circulation pump as well as having the possibility that contaminants may render your bathing time dangerous. So when should you check and clean the filters on your hot tub? The industry standard for the maintenance of hot tubs and portable hot tub filters is to rinse it out once every month and clean the filters with a special filter cleaning solution every four months.. However, every hot tub owner uses their tub quite differently from other owners since how much debris a filter collects, and how quickly it collects debris differs from one owner to another, thus differing in the need and frequency of filter cleaning or maintenance. You can make use of two filter cleaning methods for your hot tub filters; the first is spray cleaning where you make use of a spray nozzle powered filter cleaner to spray clean every pleat on the filter and letting the filter sit for fifteen minutes,; and there is the soak cleaning where, as the name suggests, you soak the filter in a bucket of cleaner and water mix for an hour. And if you would like to keep your hot tubs in top condition, there are a few maintenance tips, that you need to keep in mind. The first tip is to always keep your hot tubs covered when you are not using it and make sure that you as well as everybody else who would be using the tub rinses off before they bathe in it; this will lessen the amount of debris that goes into the tub, the filter and will help a lot in keeping the tub working efficiently. If you need to purchase a filter, take the time to make sure that you are buying the right filter for your tub’s model; do remember that there are several kinds and models of filters that are available so you need to make sure that you buy one that will fit I the filter compartment of your tub and that it has the appropriate square foot capacity that matches perfectly with the amount of water that flows in your hot tub.