Cleaning your Hot tub

In some ways, your spa is like a big bathtub, except you don’t drain it after every use, and you soak in the same water as a bunch of other people. Though maybe you soak in your bathtub with a bunch of other people, too. We’re not judging. The point is, if you don’t already know how to drain a hot tub, it’s time to learn.

Why? Well, so you can properly clean it, a process that is also different from caring for your bathtub. If you’re not sure you know how to clean a hot tub, you’re in the right place. There’s more to it than wiping it down with a cleaning solution. Get it wrong, and you could be in for some nasty surprises.

Eliminating buildup while treating your spa surfaces with care is easier than it sounds, and you don’t need a degree in chemistry to do it. Before you change your hot tub water for the first—or fiftieth—time, learn how to drain and clean your hot tub the right way.

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“Shocking” your hot tub is a term that describes adding a large quantity of an oxidizing agent to a hot tub or spa. Oxidizing agents include chlorine, bromine, and non-chlorine shock (also known as potassium peroxymonosulfate, potassium monopersulfate, and MPS).

Why does my hot tub smell like chemicals?

Why does my hot tub smell like chemicals?

Chlorine breaks things down and becomes depleted doing so. When chlorine is depleted, it doesn’t just vanish, rather, it is converted to something called a chloramine (sometimes referred to as ‘combined chlorine’). All a chloramine does is give off that odour that people refer to as the chlorine odour.