When should you drain a spa?
With average use, your hot tub should be drained and refilled about once every three or four months.
What does spa return do?
The action of returning the water through either side of the return valve allows for the Spa to function separately from the pool while in spa mode. A portion of the water returning through the pool return line will now be diverted to the adjacent spa return line by way of the spa bypass.
How long does it take to drain a hot tub?
Depending on the size of your spa, it should take around an hour to drain using the hot tub’s drainage spigot, or ten minutes to drain with a submersible pump. To drain using the spigot: Turn the power to the spa off at the circuit breaker. You don’t want the pumps or jets to run while there isn’t any water in the spa.
Why is my spa draining when on Spa mode?
I drained the spa to put in fresh water. Water temp was about 54 degrees. On restart the spa went in to “watchdog” mode. How do I reset it? … read more
How to turn on a hot tub / spa with the valves?
The last thing to remember is after going into your spa turn your valves back to where they were prior to turning on your spa/hot tub. 100% spa suction off and 80% pool to 20% spa return side. If you can imagine what the pump is doing and taking water from it is very easy for you, the homeowner, to not get confused by this process!
What’s the best way to heat up a spa?
Open Spa Drain. If it’s on a 3 way valve, that should isolate it from the pool. If there are individual 2 way valve, open the spa drain 1st, then close the skimmer and main drain valves. Open the spa return valves and close the pool return valves.
Depending on the size of your spa, it should take around an hour to drain using the hot tub’s drainage spigot, or ten minutes to drain with a submersible pump. To drain using the spigot: Turn the power to the spa off at the circuit breaker. You don’t want the pumps or jets to run while there isn’t any water in the spa.
I drained the spa to put in fresh water. Water temp was about 54 degrees. On restart the spa went in to “watchdog” mode. How do I reset it? … read more
The last thing to remember is after going into your spa turn your valves back to where they were prior to turning on your spa/hot tub. 100% spa suction off and 80% pool to 20% spa return side. If you can imagine what the pump is doing and taking water from it is very easy for you, the homeowner, to not get confused by this process!
How do I get the water back into the spa?
I have 2 questions: How do I get the water back into the spa (on my … read more The water flows from my spa to pool to pump/filter and back to spa. Lately, when the pump is turned off, the water drains out from spa down to the same level as the pool.
