Brace yourself for the chill of winter with expert insights on hot tub maintenance that could save you from costly repairs. Ever wondered what it's like to deal with a frozen hot tub during a bitter cold snap? We've been there, and we're sharing our personal mishap to show you that even the pros can get caught off guard. But don't worry, this episode is packed with tips on how to avoid such pitfalls, including the integration of Free Flow Spas with the Frog @ease system and the importance of sourcing local salt cells to dodge counterfeits.
As temperatures plunge, protecting your hot tub becomes crucial. We've got you covered with must-have tools like the bucket heater and freeze guard kits that can shield your setup from the harshest Arctic Blasts. Plus, discover the innovative filter basket from Free Flow Spas designed for the Spa Frog system, which significantly cuts down on maintenance time by maintaining low chlorine levels. We’ve also included cheat sheets and guides to help you maximize your Spa Frog experience.
Maintenance is the heartbeat of your hot tub, and we're here to ensure it runs smoothly all season long. From regular filter cleaning every two to four weeks to knowing when it's time to replace a worn-out filter, these practices are vital for your hot tub's longevity. We also address listener questions about system upgrades and share some unique cleaning tips to keep things running efficiently. And don't miss out on our exciting coffee mug giveaway as we celebrate our podcast ranking, a testament to our amazing listeners. Tune in, stay warm, and keep your hot tub troubles at bay with our latest insights.
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00:00:40.487 --> 00:00:42.932 We're going to talk about that, we're going to talk about that.
00:00:42.972 --> 00:00:45.012 We're going to talk about that.
00:00:45.012 --> 00:00:52.136 We're going to talk about, uh, free flow spas introduced a new system where they can actually, uh, work with the frog at ease.
00:00:52.136 --> 00:00:58.707 We're going to talk about that a little bit and we're going to talk about how to keep your hot tub from freezing.
00:00:58.707 --> 00:01:00.975 Just a little housekeeping to begin with.
00:01:00.975 --> 00:01:11.543 Just want to remind you guys last week if you didn't catch the podcast last week just because it was right before the holidays we did talk about the counterfeit salt cells that are out there.
00:01:11.543 --> 00:01:18.266 That is a good thing for you guys to know that you want to buy your salt cells from your local dealer.
00:01:18.266 --> 00:01:20.832 If you don't do that, you are just asking for problems.
00:01:20.832 --> 00:01:25.066 Be sure to check out the last episode of the podcast.
00:01:25.066 --> 00:01:28.433 I go into quite a bit of detail on that, but that is there.
00:01:28.433 --> 00:01:37.572 I also want to remind you it's important and I also want to remind everybody that we are off next week because I'm going to California.
00:01:38.052 --> 00:01:38.433 I'm not.
00:01:38.853 --> 00:01:39.275 You're not.
00:01:39.275 --> 00:01:42.608 He's going to stay back and take care of the hot tubs, and I'm going to go.
00:01:42.629 --> 00:01:43.171 Somebody has to.
00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:46.903 He's a little sour about this.
00:01:46.903 --> 00:01:50.412 Maybe next year, maybe next year, I don't know.
00:01:50.412 --> 00:01:51.132 It's a pretty good time.
00:01:51.132 --> 00:01:54.605 I don't know if you can handle the handle, the good time that the hot tub.
00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:55.763 I love it here in South Dakota.
00:01:55.763 --> 00:01:56.325 I'll stay here.
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00:01:58.772 --> 00:02:06.052 So, anyway, yeah, I'm going to California next week, uh, going to the Watkins wellness dealer event and I'm super excited.
00:02:06.052 --> 00:02:20.126 There is some really fun, exciting stuff that I cannot wait to bring you the podcast the following week because then I can share all the new fun, exciting things that is happening in the hot tub world and they outdid themselves this year for sure.
00:02:20.186 --> 00:02:33.473 So I'm super excited to share all that with you and you'll just have to wait, okay, so I'm fixing everybody's share all that with you and you'll just have to wait, oh, okay, so I'm fixing everybody's hot tubs while you're in 80 degrees or the other way, and I'm below zero and I think I'll probably learn more than you.
00:02:33.993 --> 00:02:34.594 You probably will.
00:02:34.594 --> 00:02:40.340 It's typically a hundred degree difference from when I get on the plane on Sunday morning and I land on Sunday afternoon.
00:02:40.561 --> 00:02:41.365 You do what you got to do.
00:02:41.365 --> 00:02:45.223 I'll keep fixing everybody's hot tub around here and keep them happy afternoon.
00:02:45.223 --> 00:02:46.625 Oh, you do what you gotta do.
00:02:46.625 --> 00:02:48.247 I'll keep fixing everybody's hot tub around here and keep them happy.
00:02:48.247 --> 00:03:01.692 And uh, uh, you know, by saying that, uh, finally I got to hot tub before the show tonight and, wow, we got to talk about hot tubs because I'm very in love with my hot tub and what an inspiration that was tonight to go in there and uh, got my energy back.
00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:02.843 Yeah, it was pretty awesome.
00:03:02.843 --> 00:03:03.646 It was so.
00:03:03.646 --> 00:03:09.247 It's been really cold, like it's almost that bitter bite your ears off, cold and you have to put the stocking hat on and all that.
00:03:09.247 --> 00:03:16.991 I got off work on time today, so I actually made it here and so we both jumped in the hot tub for about 15, 20 minutes and it was good.
00:03:16.991 --> 00:03:25.625 We were able to get our head straight, do what we needed to do and, yeah, we very much enjoyed that.
00:03:25.786 --> 00:03:32.872 And as you talk about that, it's a big thing in this hot tub world about that temperature change and out there in the field today and yesterday.
00:03:32.872 --> 00:03:34.074 You can only do so much.
00:03:34.074 --> 00:03:41.682 You can fix a hot tub, save a hot tub, but boy did drain and refill one.
00:03:41.682 --> 00:03:45.912 No, the reason being is because when that temperature goes to so much of freezing water freezes really fast and it gets scary.
00:03:45.912 --> 00:03:46.813 We'll go into this more.
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00:03:47.860 --> 00:03:58.552 I guess we're going to start with tub time trends, because that's our first feature and our tub time trend today is dirty filters cause frozen hot tubs.
00:03:58.552 --> 00:04:02.376 I don't know if that's a trend or not, but it definitely is the case.
00:04:03.943 --> 00:04:05.328 It happened five times on Monday.
00:04:05.328 --> 00:04:07.242 So it's been pretty crazy.
00:04:07.242 --> 00:04:12.253 But I will tell you the first thing that it happened to our hot tub.
00:04:12.253 --> 00:04:27.468 To be honest with you, tuesday morning I got up to Tuesday or Monday morning I got up to use the hot tub and I think it was Monday because I had Monday off and I went out to use the hot tub and it was 80 degrees and I was like oof and so I run back in with my towel.
00:04:27.468 --> 00:04:31.028 I'm like Frank, fix the hot tub, okay okay.
00:04:31.488 --> 00:04:32.793 And you did so what do I do?
00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:37.605 I go out there, pull the filter, do all the good things to fix it and you tell them what happened.
00:04:37.605 --> 00:04:38.327 Your fault.
00:04:38.507 --> 00:04:39.430 What is my fault?
00:04:39.430 --> 00:04:41.348 I will assume it's my fault.
00:04:41.348 --> 00:04:49.341 I don't know if it's my fault.
00:04:49.341 --> 00:04:53.639 I think it's your fault actually, but the temperature actually got turned down, I'm sure when we were climbing in and out of the hot tub, because I use the hot tub every day and so for it to be down to 80 degrees.
00:04:53.639 --> 00:05:00.985 It takes a lot for a Caldera hot tub to lose 20 degrees temperature in 24 hours.
00:05:00.985 --> 00:05:03.507 I mean it takes a lot and I'm like what the heck is going on.
00:05:03.507 --> 00:05:09.552 So, anyway, the temperature actually got turned down to 80 degrees, so there was no heat going on.
00:05:09.552 --> 00:05:14.456 But we did what you needed to do in a situation like that we pulled the filter out.
00:05:15.317 --> 00:05:23.492 Actually, frank pulled the filter out, he cleaned the filter, and it's actually a good thing this happened, because you need to explain this to everybody out there.
00:05:23.492 --> 00:05:30.980 This what could happen is and we're all guilty of it, I'm guilty of it myself when you jump into your hot tub, your hand might go on that top side.
00:05:30.980 --> 00:05:35.035 Utopia or paradise series, it can go on that top side.
00:05:35.035 --> 00:05:35.978 What that top side?
00:05:35.978 --> 00:05:41.012 When I'm explaining that is where it tells your temperature, your jets, all your running buttons that do that.
00:05:41.012 --> 00:05:46.420 Your hand or your fingers might touch one of them and it could send something off.
00:05:46.420 --> 00:05:53.545 Always be aware of that and just and look at make sure a spa lock probably would have been a good thing to have on and I didn't spa locker.
00:05:53.685 --> 00:05:57.444 Even more importantly, if we'd had a temperature lock on, it wouldn't have caused any issues.
00:05:57.444 --> 00:06:00.250 So that was that would be my bad.
00:06:00.250 --> 00:06:01.762 I should have set the temperature lock.
00:06:01.781 --> 00:06:14.519 It could have been mine too and one of us hit the button on the way out and we actually turned the temperature all the way down to 80 degrees, so there was no heat going to the hot tub at all, and it did get down to 82 the next morning.
00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:16.848 So, anyway, we cleaned the filter.
00:06:16.848 --> 00:06:20.959 I think it's a good thing that it happened, because that filter was filthy.
00:06:23.341 --> 00:06:23.923 Absolutely.
00:06:23.923 --> 00:06:34.451 It's amazing, these cold temperatures everybody out there you have to know this these cold temperatures actually will dirty your filter more than the warmer temperatures.
00:06:34.451 --> 00:06:35.951 I've seen it.
00:06:35.951 --> 00:06:37.233 I've dealt with this forever.
00:06:37.233 --> 00:06:41.656 I recommend you got to check it two to four weeks.
00:06:41.656 --> 00:06:42.976 You really do.
00:06:42.976 --> 00:06:47.286 If you pull it out and look at it, looks clean, fine.
00:06:47.286 --> 00:06:58.632 But pulled it out out there and, uh, I was on three job sites today where every filter was dirty and I just cleaned them a week ago right and you are doing some valet service where you are cleaning those filters on a weekly basis and they're getting.
00:06:59.055 --> 00:07:07.560 They are getting really dirty and our filter was really dirty and I think too that you feel it's dirtier because you know what it'll do.
00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:12.473 So what happens is that filter gets dirty and it restricts the flow to the heater.
00:07:12.473 --> 00:07:22.005 And in the summer months I don't really worry about it because my filter I mean, what's the worst that happens if my hot tub stops heating it?
00:07:22.005 --> 00:07:23.930 Just I don't get to use it for a couple hours.
00:07:23.930 --> 00:07:25.884 I turn it back on and it's good to go in the summer.
00:07:25.884 --> 00:07:29.982 In the winter that's a really big deal because your hot tub can freeze.
00:07:29.982 --> 00:07:35.052 And we did get it heated back up and everything was working.
00:07:35.052 --> 00:07:36.161 We used the hot tub that night.
00:07:36.161 --> 00:07:37.701 So the hot tub was down for what?
00:07:37.701 --> 00:07:39.603 Four hours, six hours, something like that.
00:07:39.624 --> 00:07:39.884 Correct.
00:07:40.524 --> 00:07:47.632 And we got in the hot tub and then we turned the jets on and that was like sheets of ice coming through those jets.
00:07:47.632 --> 00:07:49.754 That water was ice cold.
00:07:49.814 --> 00:07:52.617 It can go that fast, and it was, so you've got to be looking.
00:07:53.060 --> 00:07:57.572 So that was the outside water, outside of the tub of the vessel of water that's heated.
00:07:57.572 --> 00:08:04.665 That water was cold and I could see where that would freeze and that's where the issues happen when your hot tub freezes.
00:08:04.665 --> 00:08:20.211 The worst thing that can ever happen to a hot tub is for it to freeze and if it does that, it freezes in those jets and those elbows and all those joints and that's where the cracks happen and that's when your hot tub starts leaking and that's where all the issues cost you lots of money.
00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:22.603 A quick explanation on this in the real world.
00:08:22.603 --> 00:08:40.711 I was a UPS driver for 33 years and it's amazing what 31 degrees driving up and down an interstate can do, compared to 27 degrees Certain time of day the sun's not shining on it, you can get black ice in 10 minutes and you can't move your tires.
00:08:40.711 --> 00:08:46.009 And when the sun comes out, bang later all of a sudden.
00:08:46.009 --> 00:08:47.472 Why did I even slip?
00:08:47.472 --> 00:08:48.341 It's all gone.
00:08:48.341 --> 00:08:58.326 So in the hot tub world, let's say to 26, to what 18, 17 degree, seven degree difference can?
00:08:58.326 --> 00:09:01.171 You can pour water out, spill it on the side.
00:09:01.171 --> 00:09:06.191 You go walk on that water on your sidewalk that you just built.
00:09:06.191 --> 00:09:08.765 You'll fall down because it automatically turns to ice.
00:09:08.765 --> 00:09:10.590 Just how fast that works.
00:09:10.590 --> 00:09:11.552 It's scary.
00:09:13.201 --> 00:09:14.504 So it is a big deal.
00:09:14.504 --> 00:09:16.227 Kayla had a pretty good comment here.
00:09:16.227 --> 00:09:21.326 She says my filter isn't electrical equipment, so how can it cause my hot tub to freeze?
00:09:21.326 --> 00:09:23.172 Hopefully I explained that.
00:09:23.520 --> 00:09:38.850 But what happens is that filter gets dirty, that water can't go through the filter, and then it can't get to the heater, so it's starving the pump and it's starving the heater and it definitely hurts your hot tub and the worse it gets, the colder it gets, the worse it gets.
00:09:38.850 --> 00:09:43.245 Also, I want to shout out to Michael Penn hey, great to see you.
00:09:43.245 --> 00:09:48.140 Thanks for your support all the years.
00:09:48.140 --> 00:09:50.683 Did you know that today is my YouTube channel's birthday?
00:09:52.947 --> 00:09:58.096 happy birthday to you it's come.
00:09:58.235 --> 00:10:00.639 It's come a long way, but for it's nine years old today.
00:10:00.784 --> 00:10:15.812 Congratulations, jackie, you've done a fabulous job, and um, yeah, there's nothing I can say, but you've done a fabulous job and thank everybody out there for paying attention and listening and hopefully we're giving you great tips, and all we want is ever to be a happy hot tubber that's all that is.
00:10:15.873 --> 00:10:19.910 Our main goal is to become happy hot tubbers, so we're going to so.
00:10:19.910 --> 00:10:34.755 Also on I'm going to talk about on the something that you can have, or a piece of insurance that you should have, in your garage is what we call a freeze guard kit, and that is this bucket heater here.
00:10:34.755 --> 00:10:38.374 You can get them on Amazon right now for $39.
00:10:38.374 --> 00:10:42.192 I have a link down below that's got the whole kit that you can check in.
00:10:42.192 --> 00:10:50.789 So those of you that are listening, this is just a heater that goes inside of a bucket and it's just something that you can have in your garage, and so what?
00:10:50.830 --> 00:10:51.292 you do, is you?
00:10:51.331 --> 00:10:56.418 take this heater, you put it inside of the bucket and then you put the whole bucket, you submerge that in the water.
00:10:56.418 --> 00:10:58.077 And the reason that you put it inside of the bucket and then you put the whole bucket, you submerge that in the water.
00:10:58.077 --> 00:11:04.607 And the reason that you put it in the bucket is in case the hot tub were to drain, which can happen when it's freezing.
00:11:04.607 --> 00:11:10.066 It'll the water's, the heater's in the bucket and it won't hurt the hot tub shell at all.
00:11:10.066 --> 00:11:15.712 So you're going to have that bucket, you're going to have that heater in it and it will keep that hot tub from freezing.
00:11:15.712 --> 00:11:17.696 In fact, it'll get it back up to a hundred degrees.
00:11:17.696 --> 00:11:22.648 Now I do not ever want anybody to use their hot tub while they have that in there.
00:11:22.648 --> 00:11:26.918 The whole purpose of this is to keep the hot tub from freezing.
00:11:27.225 --> 00:11:30.193 All those hot tubs that they had, the service techs had to go out and fix.
00:11:30.193 --> 00:11:33.190 This week we had five hot tubs that had layers of ice on them.
00:11:33.190 --> 00:11:47.056 They went out, they took a sledgehammer Nobody had been out frozen long enough that they were completely frozen but they took a sledgehammer, they broke through the ice, they put that bucket in the water with the heater.
00:11:47.056 --> 00:11:50.653 By tomorrow, those hot tubs are all going to be 100 degrees again.
00:11:50.653 --> 00:11:58.368 We'll pull the filters out and hopefully they'll just fire right back up, but that is something that you guys should have Again.
00:11:58.368 --> 00:12:06.296 I'll have this in the podcast notes and I'll have it in the description on the YouTube channel, but definitely check that out because that's a big deal.
00:12:07.306 --> 00:12:13.326 And what is she saying here is that this will give you time to call me or the tech to come and save your hot tub.
00:12:13.326 --> 00:12:17.256 Huge deal, so great explanation, jackie.
00:12:17.904 --> 00:12:19.832 And then Kayla did have a good point.
00:12:19.832 --> 00:12:24.711 She says also make sure not to have the bucket heater in there for too long.
00:12:24.711 --> 00:12:28.105 They can actually get up to 120 degrees and that's ouch.
00:12:28.466 --> 00:12:33.835 And again, please do not use your hot tub with this and that is not designed for people to be in it with.
00:12:33.835 --> 00:12:34.967 It is designed.
00:12:34.967 --> 00:12:40.812 What we're using this for is to save your hot tub, so that's just a really good thing to do.
00:12:40.812 --> 00:12:52.385 It's like I said I, you can get them for 39 on amazon right now if you wait until it's freezing, or you wait till the big polar what is that called?
00:12:57.618 --> 00:12:58.890 They're both below zero.
00:13:00.187 --> 00:13:04.798 And when that comes through and everybody needs a bucket heater at the same time, guess what?
00:13:04.798 --> 00:13:06.091 That price goes way up.
00:13:06.091 --> 00:13:09.535 I've seen them go up to $150, $200 in the middle of January.
00:13:09.535 --> 00:13:14.509 So get it now while you can, and then you just have it in your garage and you just never have to think about it.
00:13:14.509 --> 00:13:15.652 I think we have seven.
00:13:15.652 --> 00:13:17.634 But, when we were living in Watertown.
00:13:17.634 --> 00:13:22.350 A lot of people needed them and we'd never so my next topic.
00:13:22.605 --> 00:13:24.032 Keep an eye on the people out there.
00:13:24.585 --> 00:13:32.424 Which is Free Flow Spas just did the most amazing thing they created this new filter basket.
00:13:32.424 --> 00:13:36.073 So anybody that has a 2012 or newer hot tub, you can get this new filter basket.
00:13:36.073 --> 00:13:39.062 So anybody that has a 2012 or newer hot tub, you can get this new filter basket.
00:13:39.062 --> 00:13:53.889 And what this does is this actually holds the spa frog system in it, and so your spa frog, instead of having to float around in a floater or something like that, or not using spa frog at all, you can now use the spa frog system.
00:13:53.889 --> 00:14:04.677 You just slide that into the filter basket and then you have your chlorine cartridge and your mineral cartridge and now you've got a super easy way to take care of your hot tub.
00:14:04.677 --> 00:14:08.996 And this will actually retrofit, and this is a really inexpensive way to do it.
00:14:09.065 --> 00:14:16.736 I want to say these are like $65 or something like that, and I do have a link for those as well, but your local dealer will definitely have these.
00:14:16.736 --> 00:14:25.631 But if you have a free flow spa or a fantasy spa or something along that lines, you can definitely now use the free, the at ease system.
00:14:25.631 --> 00:14:36.759 Now, at our location, we supplied floaters and everybody was using it anyway, so that that spa frog at ease system is an absolute amazing way to take care of your hot tub.
00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:38.812 You only have to shock it once a month.
00:14:38.812 --> 00:14:42.836 You keep your chlorine at a 0.5 or lower.
00:14:42.836 --> 00:14:44.890 It's just awesome.
00:14:45.926 --> 00:14:47.030 That's a great new feature.
00:14:47.030 --> 00:14:54.235 Yeah, absolutely wonderful, and it's a lot less hassle way easier.
00:14:54.825 --> 00:14:57.995 And I love the fact that A they allow you to retrofit.
00:14:57.995 --> 00:15:10.991 Typically, when they come out with something new like this, they require you to buy a new hot tub and now, for a minimal price, you can actually put this into your hot tub, you can retrofit it and now you can use that Spa Frog at ease system.
00:15:10.991 --> 00:15:12.534 You're going to absolutely love it.
00:15:12.534 --> 00:15:18.408 I do have cheat sheets for everybody all the new people out there that are using the Spa Frog system.
00:15:18.408 --> 00:15:19.169 I have those links.
00:15:19.169 --> 00:15:34.993 Or you can go to my website, thehottubladyco, and then go to the bottom of the website and go to the downloads, and there you can find the cheat sheets for all of the Spa Frogs.
00:15:34.993 --> 00:15:41.048 So if you have 150 gallon or you have a 500 gallon kit, then it's right there.
00:15:41.048 --> 00:15:46.619 And then Kyle is also sharing all the links in the comments.
00:15:46.619 --> 00:15:47.385 So thank you, kyle.
00:15:47.385 --> 00:15:51.658 I appreciate that so, but we are doing really well with that.
00:15:51.817 --> 00:16:01.895 So benefits of the spa frog system is it kills bacteria two ways one with the smart chlor technology and one with the minerals.
00:16:01.895 --> 00:16:05.485 It reduces the chlorine use by 75%.
00:16:05.485 --> 00:16:07.933 There's no measuring, there's none of the things.
00:16:07.933 --> 00:16:15.799 You just set the dial decide where it's going to be on these at ease cartridges and the mineral cartridges.
00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:17.951 You can see right on here here.
00:16:17.951 --> 00:16:21.409 There's just a little dial and you just click that up and it's.
00:16:21.409 --> 00:16:25.969 You usually set it on two or three, you set the blue one on six and you are good to go.
00:16:25.969 --> 00:16:28.798 You shock it once a month with the frog.
00:16:28.798 --> 00:16:36.133 Maintain I like to use just dichlor is what I typically use, and then it just makes it super easy to take care of your hot tub.
00:16:36.133 --> 00:16:37.456 Free flow and fantasy owners.
00:16:37.456 --> 00:16:39.700 Congratulations, you are now yeah.
00:16:39.924 --> 00:16:41.432 It makes your life a lot easier.
00:16:41.924 --> 00:16:45.533 It's you've got an inline chemical system for your hot tub.
00:16:45.995 --> 00:16:47.597 That's a great feature, great feature.
00:16:48.346 --> 00:16:50.184 So that's absolutely awesome.
00:16:50.184 --> 00:16:56.153 Our next feature is you, frank and it is Frank's fix it Tips.
00:16:56.173 --> 00:16:56.735 What did I get here?
00:16:57.605 --> 00:16:58.789 Let me see if I can find the.
00:16:58.789 --> 00:17:02.571 There we go Frank's Fix it Tips.
00:17:05.166 --> 00:17:07.034 Oh, what's your question?
00:17:07.034 --> 00:17:10.250 Frank's Fix it Tips.
00:17:14.830 --> 00:17:17.471 Okay, I'm sorry I got to laugh.
00:17:17.904 --> 00:17:24.834 I got to laugh because before we got on the show today, I asked him what his Frank's Fix-It tips are and he's it's not going to matter, You're not going to stop talking.
00:17:24.914 --> 00:17:33.651 I was in the hot tub I got yeah, it's like you're not going to stop talking, I'm not going to get to do anything anyway, and I'm ready to talk about everything in life.
00:17:33.651 --> 00:17:41.157 And, like I say, I was out there in the field today and the temperature got below zero this and that, but any time of the year, what is the most important?
00:17:41.157 --> 00:17:43.240 What is the heart of your hot tub, people?
00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:44.780 What is the heart of your hot tub?
00:17:44.780 --> 00:17:49.536 Your filter correct?
00:17:49.536 --> 00:17:52.230 And what does a filter do?
00:17:52.230 --> 00:18:04.229 A filter keeps water circulating properly I have to read this so I say it correctly Ensuring the heating system can do its job.
00:18:04.248 --> 00:18:05.772 And what we mean by that is dirty filters don't do the job.
00:18:05.772 --> 00:18:12.250 And when you're out there at any time of the season, guys, and most important, in the winter, let's clean that filter.
00:18:12.250 --> 00:18:30.032 Let's check it every two to four weeks, let's look at it and make sure it's flowing properly, make sure it's doing its job, because without circulation and filtration in your hot tub doesn't run correctly, right, it's hard to keep the chemicals balanced, it's hard to have good water, it just makes it a nuisance.
00:18:30.032 --> 00:18:35.973 So probably the cheapest part of your hot tub is your filter and it's the heart of your hot tub.
00:18:35.973 --> 00:18:43.637 It's like us people, you got to take care of our hearts and the more we take care of that filter guys, your hot tub will run properly.
00:18:44.424 --> 00:18:52.174 So with that, like I said before, rinse your filter every two to four weeks, please, look at it, please take it out, clean it, even if it looks clean.
00:18:52.174 --> 00:18:56.744 Sometimes you just need to rinse it out, put it it back in, adjust your chemicals properly.
00:18:56.744 --> 00:19:04.712 But I give we can't stress that enough and I know jackie the hot tub lady's been on a podcast forever and you look at all the podcasts out there.
00:19:04.712 --> 00:19:07.566 They all say about clean your filters and me.
00:19:07.566 --> 00:19:14.093 But I'm a hot tub fixer and I'm guilty of not cleaning my filter and it's proven to me that is true.
00:19:14.093 --> 00:19:16.180 Clean your filter and keep it clean.
00:19:16.970 --> 00:19:23.233 And 100% At the very minimum that you need to do is you need to clean that every two weeks.
00:19:23.233 --> 00:19:24.376 That's the absolute minimum.
00:19:24.376 --> 00:19:28.234 I'm going to tell you that you need to rinse it once a week, hoping you do it once a month.
00:19:28.234 --> 00:19:34.675 What I'm really going to recommend and I know you guys have heard me say this a thousand times get three filters.
00:19:34.675 --> 00:19:36.839 You can get by with two, but get three filters.
