How to maintain your inflatable spa?

How lucky to have aIntex inflatable spa At home! To ensure a long life and give you comfortable moments of relaxation, regular maintenance is necessary. It’s about 4 steps and some suitable products.

1. Anti-scale

To be done only if the water is hard.

First of all, for prevent the formation of limescale deposits on your spa walls and pipes, add a descaling agent directly to your spa water, filtration running.

How much? 20 to 30 ml per m³

When? This operation must be carried out before each filling and before adding maintenance products to the water.

2. pH balancing

Therefore, it is essential to balance the water, which will facilitate the action of the disinfectant and other treatment products, designed to work optimally at neutral pH. pH regulation is one of the most important aspects important related to maintaining the water in your pond.

To do this, proceed toanalyze of your water thanks to test strips : the pH must be between 7.2 and 7.6.
If the pH is not correct (often too high), it will be necessary to add a pH Minus product in order to lower it to the values ​​mentioned above. Otherwise, use a pH Plus.

We recommend that you dilute the granules in a bucket of water beforehand. Always pour the pellets into a bucket full of water, not the water on the pellets! (The concentration would therefore be too high with the risk of “outgassing”). The resulting solution can then be added directly to your spa water, filtration in operation.

How much?10 g of granules per m³, to reduce the pH by 0.1

When? This operation must be carried out twice a week (test and readjustment of the pH if necessary).

3. Disinfect the water

If the spa is equipped with a salt eco-sterilizer:

It is necessary to disinfect the water using the ecosterilizer with which the spa is equipped. To do this, you will dissolve pool salt in your spa water.

Electrolysis of lightly salted water will produce natural, highly active chlorine (hypochlorous acid), which will destroy microorganisms in your pool (bacteria and algae).
Salt sterilization also eliminates chloramines (responsible for the smell of chlorine) and eliminates unwanted effects (irritation, red eyes, dry skin, allergies, discoloration of swimsuits).

The indicator lights and the audible alarm will indicate a possible malfunction (lack of salt, etc.).

The ecosterilizer must be in operation everyday. As with a disinfectant product, the level of chlorine produced by electrolysis should be checked weekly. Thanks to the speed analyses, it will be necessary to adjust the operating time of the ecosterilizer.

How much does it go up? 3 g/L of water (for a 795 L spa you will need 2,400 kg of salt)

When? This action only needs to be performed once, except when changing the spa water. Salt treatment should be started every day.

Yes not:

Use bromine tablets or active oxygen (bromine is the most recommended spa treatment). Place the bromine tablets directly into the filter cartridge container (not into the floating diffuser, they will not dissolve quickly enough).

The bromine level in thermal water must be maintained between 3 and 5 mg/L.

How much? 3 or 4 20 g tablets in the filter cartridge case (depending on the brand)

When? 1 time/week

4. Clarifante

Finally, to prevent cloudy water problems and increase filtration efficiencyyou will need to add the clarifier directly to your spa water, filtration running. After addition, let the filtration run for at least two hours. This operation requires prior pH adjustment to ensure the optimal effect of the Clarifier.

What brand?

Jardideco experts recommend using Bayrol brand spa products. This is the SpaTime range, specializing in spa maintenance: treatment products, cleaning products, kits, etc.

Filtration duration

Like the pool, the spa also needs to be filtered daily. To determine the appropriate filtration time simply perform this calculation: T°/2 = x hours of filtration.

If I program my spa at 34°, I have to run the filtration 17 hours a day in 3 sequences of 5.5 hours each.

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