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=== Each week (''every Saturday'') === | === Each week (''every Saturday'') === | ||
# Open the top ''fully'' and turn on the jets. | # Open the top ''fully'' and turn on the jets. | ||
# Check the levels using one of the 4/5-way test strips. There are instructions for using them on the bottle but it's pretty easy. Submerge for a 5-10 seconds and then check against the key on the bottle. Make sure to close the bottle ''before'' you get your hand all wet so you don't get the water into the tube | # Place the spa net right over the intake (where the water flows into the filters in the left corner of the tub). Once the jets are on, the pressure of water rushing in will hold the filter in place. This will cause the net to capture any bigger chunks like leaves before they are sent into the filters where they are much harder to get out. | ||
# Add ~2oz of "Spa Shock" or "Oxidizing Shock" to the tub (with the jets on). I typically add them into the right corner slowly. This will kill/destroy anything in the tub. It's important to do this once a week. ''Wait 5 minutes'' to let things fully mix in and for the oxidizer to do its thing. | |||
# Check the levels using one of the 4/5-way test strips. There are instructions for using them on the bottle but it's pretty easy. Submerge for a 5-10 seconds and then check against the key on the bottle. Make sure to close the bottle ''before'' you get your hand all wet so you don't get the water into the tube. | |||
Based on the results from the test strips, you might need to adjust | Based on the results from the test strips, you might need to adjust things. In every case, add ''no more than 1oz'' at a time to the running jets and then give things five minutes to mix and settle. Then retest with a new test strip. | ||
Adjust by adding whatever the strips suggest is necessary in order in which they are listed on the test strip bottle (top-to-bottom): | Adjust by adding whatever the strips suggest is necessary in order in which they are listed on the test strip bottle (top-to-bottom): | ||
# Sanitizer/chlorine | |||
# Alkaline increaser [almost certainly not necessary; if it looks close, skip it] | # Alkaline increaser [almost certainly not necessary; if it looks close, skip it] | ||
# PH increaser or decreaser (depend on whether it needs to go up or down) | # PH increaser or decreaser (depend on whether it needs to go up or down) | ||
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Typically once you've done this (or maybe even before) there might be some scum that has collected along the edges of the water. The shocks sort of "releases" organic material into the water in this way. Use the magic eraser style sponge to clean that up. It comes right off. | Typically once you've done this (or maybe even before) there might be some scum that has collected along the edges of the water. The shocks sort of "releases" organic material into the water in this way. Use the magic eraser style sponge to clean that up. It comes right off. | ||
Once you're done, you can out any leaves and/or gross looking foam with the | Once you're done, you can out any leaves and/or gross looking foam with the spa net. | ||
=== Each month (''last weekend of the month'') === | === Each month (''last weekend of the month'') === |