Today I'm showing the Lay Z Spa setup procedure. Ours is a St Moritz which I'm showing you in the
top corner now but the setup procedure is the same whatever model you've got.
I've already done an unboxing video and I'll link that in the description if you want to see it
but let's get right to setting up.
The box with the spa in is quite heavy and it really is
a two-man lift to get it into the location where you're gonna set it up and I tipped it
upside down which enables me to just lift the box off. I'm using my fingers to tear the polythene.
I suggest that you don't use a knife you don't want to puncture the spa. Actually, in my opinion,
I must say that wrapping this in polythene like this is a black mark against Bestway,
they could easily have wrapped it in a stout paper wrapper that would be fully recyclable.
Something to bear in mind when choosing your site for this; these Lay Z Spas don't half weigh some.
This St Moritz model will be in the order of about 1300 kilos by the time it's full.
I'm putting it on decking but I built this decking myself, so you can take my
word for it it is strong. If you don't know the pedigree of your decking, be as well to check it.
If you jump up and down on it and it bounces then it's probably not strong enough.
Unfold the machine, which is quite tough to do because of course it's taken a bit of a set having
been in its box and all packed up for probably a couple of months This is the business end that
we're interested in. These pipes are the ones that will connect to the combined pump & heater unit
and it's that unit that blows it up. From the packaging select the brown air adapter and the
air pipe. The air adapter screws into the plug on the side of the machine; tighten it down firmly
and then remove the centre cap. Connect this end of the inflator pipe to the inflation nozzle
making sure not to cross-thread it and do it down hand tight then with the other end
of the inflation pipe insert it into the inflation port on the tub itself.
Now remove the plastic protector from the plug and find somewhere to plug it in. If you're using an
extension lead to bring power out of the house, do not leave the lead of the tub coiled up like this,
make sure to uncoil it and also make sure to uncoil any extension lead you might be using.
Make sure to press the reset button on the RCD unit - the little window between the two buttons
will light up red. Press and hold the power button for 3s and then press the massage button.
Once you're satisfied it's sufficiently inflated press the power button for 3s and it'll turn off.
Disconnect the air hose, (don't worry, the air won't come rushing out there's a valve inside)
and put the cap on. Unpack and unfold the inflatable lid. Unpack and unfold the main cover.
Place the main cover upside down and place the inflatable cover inside this ring.
Connect up the inflator and switch on.
Stop the airflow by pressing the massage button. When it's inflated pull out the air hose, push the
bulb into the air hole and then push the bung inside the lid. We won't be needing that for a
while so put it off to one side. This filter that comes in the box that we found when we unpacked
is actually a spare. Rather handily, the filter canister comes with a filter pre-fitted but
just to show you how to fit them; unscrew the little cap off the top; separate the two halves
and there's your filter. It's a simple slot out slot in affair. Put that back together,
return the screw cap. Keep that somewhere safe as your spare unit. This is your Chem Connect,
you put your chemicals in that and it distributes them slowly in the water. Back at the tub pull off
these two rubber caps. Don't leave them in the tub, you don't want to end up sitting on them.
The filter housing screws on the lower one, just hand tight no need to go mad and the chem
connect is a bayonet fitting on the top one. Before we connect the pump unit to the spa
and before we fill up with water, now is pretty much your last opportunity to make
sure that it's positioned where you want it. The use of some mats is definitely a recommendation.
They're the sort of rubber mats that you'd use in a workshop. Use the straps at the side
to turn it around. Bring your pump unit round to where these connections are on the side of
the tub. Disconnect the air hose, keep that somewhere safe. Make sure that this gasket
is in the right place. Remove this cap and keep it safe. Remove any packaging materials
around these connections. The connections are simple screw on connections but you do need to
get the threads in square in order to make sure they go on. Do be careful not to cross thread
them. Do up hand tight and while you're here make sure that the drain is done up tight as well
and now we're ready to fill. Some top tips for filling: if you've got two hoses and you can use
both then do so because that will increase the speed at which you can fill the tub. Depending
on which model you've got it may take up to 1200 or even slightly more litres of water. This is a
Moritz and takes 1200. The temperature of the water that comes out of your cold tap
is likely to be around 10C because that water has been through underground pipes and ground
temperature is pretty much steady at 10C no matter where you are. So if you put 1200 kilos
of water in here and then rely on the tubs heater to heat it up to working temperature (35 to 40C),
then it's going to take a full 24 hours possibly 36 hours to get that water up to temperature. That
has a number of disadvantages: 1) you've got to wait for ages before you can use it and 2)
here in the UK, at least, heating water by electricity compared to gas is very
expensive. So what I've done here; the grey pipe is coming from a cold outside tap, this green pipe
is coming from an inside hot tap. Before I even started setting this up I wicked my tank
temperature up to 70 (it's normally just below 60) and my boiler temperature up to max to get as much
heat energy into that water as possible, and get yourself a tap adapter to connect your hose to a
hot tap. The working temperature of the tub is 40C maximum, now I don't know how the tub would react
to being filled with 60C water. Start your filling process with cold water straight from the cold tap
and get at least 3 or 4 inches of water in the bottom of it before you start filling with hot.
Now the cold water will come out of your mains tap at somewhere around 10C, so to get a temperature
of 40C you need to mix hot and cold roughly 50/50. Depending on what hot water system you've got
you may not be able to achieve that. If like me you've got a tank that holds 120 maybe 150 litres,
that's only a tenth of the capacity of your tub. Keep a tab on the warmth of the hot hose
pipe which in my case is now starting to go cool which means my tank is running out of hot water
so at that point go and turn the hot water off and allow the tank to recover to a good temperature
again. Of course if you've got a combi or an instantaneous hot water heater you could probably
just leave it running and running and it'll be fine but in that case keep your cold water running
at the same time so you're getting the right mix. Once your water level has risen above the top of
this chemical canister so that both of your pipes are full of water to the pump unit and the pump
unit itself is getting full of water you could switch on the unit's own internal heating system
as well to further speed up heating. Press the power button, get the power on, and simply press
the heating button and the heat and the pump will start. It will start to circulate water and it
will start to heat. Set your temperature with the up and down (default is 35) that's what I left it
at with the amount of hot water I've put in. I'm at 25C already so that's about 15C of electricity
saved already. Continue filling it up until the water level is between the max and min marks
Raise the set temperature to 40 degrees using the temperature up button on the control panel.
Make sure that the pump and the heater are running if you haven't already had them running.
Put the cover over and tie it down and leave the tub overnight so that the tub's own heater unit
can do the heavy lifting of raising the temperature up to 40C
and the next morning we should have a nice warm tub. It really does feel warm,
it's lovely like a warm bath but the tub's not quite ready to just jump straight in just yet,
you need to chemically treat the water in order to keep it healthy & clean,
which i shall show you in another video. Click on this end screen to take you to that video and
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