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You know what the number one question that I get on my channel and that
I'm going to answer for you today is how do you shock a hot tub?
I've made other videos on this, but this one I'm just going to get down to the
bare bones and just explain exactly how to shock a hot tub and why we do it.
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So this is the number one question I get on my YouTube channel and
the number one topic that is searched on my YouTube channel.
And that is how do you shock a hot tub?
So guys that is super, super easy on how you do it.
Actually on a 300 gallon hot tub, the steps are step one, open the cover
really important that the covers open.
So you're gonna open the cover.
You're gonna turn the jets on high.
It's better if you turn the air controls off, but you turn the jets on high
turn, the air controls off, and then on.
300 gallon, hot tub.
You're gonna put in about three heaping, tablespoons of a non chlorine shock.
So that's called shock.
That's called renew.
That's called blitz.
It's called there's lots of different brands out there, but you
want to do a non chlorine shock.
You're going to put that in your hot tub.
You are going to let the cover off with the jets running for a minimum.
Of 30 minutes.
And it's really important that you have that cover completely off and not just
half off, because what happens is you've got these combined molecules and this
is the whole reason we shocked to begin with is you got these combined molecules
and you got to make them good molecules.
And to do that, you put in your shock, you get up to 10 part per million.
So that is probably the one and only time I would tell you to actually test your
water five, 10 minutes after putting the chemical in, because you want to make
sure that you got all the way to a 10 part per million, whether that's chlorine or.
Or even a saltwater hot tub, you do want to get to that 10 part
per million of free chlorine.
And what happens once you hit that 10 part per million?
The, that combined molecule breaks apart, the bad stuff.
So the nitrogen, the body waste, all that stuff.
That's going to gas off and it's going to go into the atmosphere if the cover is on.
Tub, that's going to gas off.
It's going to hit that cover.
It's going to come back down into the water and actually make the problem worse.
So it's really important that covers completely off.
And the jets are on.
You want to get that bubbling and going and doing its thing.
If your water really has a super bad.
Contaminant situation in it.
I will actually put a video over here from my actual hot tub that
where the water was really bad and it bubbles up and it's, doing its thing.
That's actually a really good thing if you starting to get foam out of there
because you're getting the bad stuff out.
So just depending on the shape of your water, That's what you
need to do as a general rule.
You want to shock your hot tub at least once a week.
It's important.
What it does is it makes that bad chlorine or that bad bromine
turns it back into good chlorine.
And that's really, important.
It's a huge money saver.
If you actually do shock your hot tub, you have any other
questions, please let me know.
I'm going to link a video up here about an after party that I clean up that I.
Where it was it took a lot to clean up that hot tub afterwards, and
there's a lot of stuff in there that kind of talks about shocking as well.
But in the meantime, really, that's what you need to do with the shock you
need to shock at once a week, the cover needs to be completely off and the jets
need to be running another program.
You should always put your shock or your sanitizer in the filter compartment.
That way, if it lands on the edge of the shell or something and doesn't get
dissolved, it can't etch that shell.
The worst that happens is it ruins a filter and Hey, we got to replace
those at once every once in a while.
So guys, I hope this is helpful for you.
Please let me know in the comments, any other things that you would want
to know, or you would like me to just real basic quick videos like this, on
how to do something on your hot tub.
I would be thrilled to answer those questions for you.
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