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between a salt system and a regular chlorine system.
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So, hey guys, welcome back
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But today's topic is everybody who comes in,
I can't believe I haven't done this video sooner
because honestly it's an everyday question in my store.
Everybody wants to know what is the difference
between a chlorine hot tub and a salt water system hot tub?
And I'm going to explain that for you right now.
To start with a chlorine tub obviously,
a chlorine tub is just a regular hot tub
and that could be chlorine, it could be bromine,
it could be any sanitizing system
that you choose to do.
Any hot tub, any hot tub can be a chlorine hot tub.
So it's just a regular hot tub,
it's what's been out there for years
and you'll have to change the water
every three to four months.
You wanna keep your chlorine
at a three to five part per million,
your alkalinity to 80 to 120, your pH at seven, six.
And honestly really don't care where your hardness is,
you just got to keep your usual stain and scale control
to keep that hardness under control.
That is your chlorine tub.
You do have to change it every three to four months
and you just kind of have to stay on top of it.
It's a little more maintenance a little more hands-on.
We sell a ton of chlorine hot tubs.
It's a good way to go if you choose to go that way.
Now, however, the big question
and it's the hottest topic right now.
What's the difference between that and a salt water system?
Well, first of all, a salt water system
is amazing hot tub.
There is a better built, hot tub out the gate.
Jackie what do you mean
when you say it's a better built hot tub?
Well, so first off warranty.
The warranty on any saltwater hot tub
is gonna be seven years on the shell,
five years against leaks
and five years on all the components and everything else.
That is the absolute best warranty
that is out there on the market today.
So the manufacturer is saying, hey, this salt system
we believe in it,
and we know it's going to be the best hot tub out there.
In fact, we're willing to put our money where our mouth is
and they're going to back up their product.
But some of the things that happen on a salt water tub,
is either gonna have a 24 hour circulation pump.
Any hot tub with a 24 hour circulation pump,
and that is when I say that,
I mean, it's a little pump that is dedicated,
just to heating and cleaning the hot tub,
that is not a jet pump in any way shape or form,
but it is a circulation pump.
If you have that circulation pump,
your hot tub is going to last longer
because the hardest thing on any pump is to turn on and off.
If you have that 24 hour circulation pump
it's going to last longer.
And also it works better with the salt system
because it's evenly distributing that salt,
in the hot tub at all times.
You're not getting big surges of salt,
when the jet pump kicks on.
That's number one, number two, the heaters.
The heaters in a saltwater hot tub are titanium heater.
And that is gigantic.
It's gonna last longer, a better built heater.
It is the actually the best heater that you can get.
It can handle the environment of a saltwater environment
and that's big, saltwater hot tubs have titanium heaters.
The pumps are a little better,
they're a little beefier
they're built to last a little longer.
It's just designed to be a whole system.
The technology that goes into it,
is the best technology you can get
on any hot tub in the world right now.
It is awesome.
Salt's not a new thing.
Salt has been around for 12, 13, 14 years now on hot tubs.
I will tell you that Watkins Manufacturing,
they manufacture the HotSprings hot tubs.
They've improved it so much.
They've gone to the fresh water cell,
so that now they have that disposable cell
because one of the things that goes bad
on a salt water tub is the cell gets burned up
and it gets used out.
And in the past,
they've been relatively expensive to replace.
Watkins or hot Springs
has come up with the disposable cell,
to have to replace it every three to four months.
And it is absolutely amazing.
Salt water feels better for you.
So you don't have that chlorine smell.
You know, when you walk into the hotels
and that type of thing, and you can smell the chlorine
and you're like ah the pool must be great,
that you can smell the chlorine.
That's actually bad, you should never smell chlorine,
in a chlorine tub or bromine tub
you are gonna smell the chlorine.
Now there's nothing worse,
I've had a hot tub for 25 years,
nothing worse at the end of the night,
you get done hot tubing,
you're totally relaxed and you're ready to sleep
lay in bed and you can smell the bromine,
you can smell the chlorine in your hair
and then the pillow start that,
then you've got to do laundry.
You just don't have that with the salt system.
So that's amazing.
You've got the better bill hot tub,
you've got the better warranty,
this is all coming out the gate.
The saltwater hot tub is definitely the best hot tub
that you can buy on the market today.
Now I will also say that the saltwater hot tubs,
they are in the luxury
or the premium to luxury line of hot tubs.
So they are going to start around that $12,000 per hot tub.
Start around that $12,000 you go all the way up to $20,000,
that's gonna be the price range
that you're gonna find your saltwater hot tubs in.
And this is in 2021.
If you're watching this five years from now,
those prices may change.
But in 2021, I would say that is the price range
that you're gonna find a saltwater hot tub.
But again, you're getting so much more for that hot tub
before you even take into consideration the salt system.
It's huge.
So it's just easy take care of,
they're awesome, they're a little more money up front,
but the hot tub alone before the salt system
is worth that much money to begin with.
Salt is definitely the way to go.
Now I will tell you on a salt system,
there are few things that you need.
One of which is, this is not a must have,
but I highly recommend it.
This is the iCare water care Monitoring System.
So this just floats around in my hot tub
and then it sends me a notification on my phone,
it tests the water every hour on the hour.
And it also sends a notification to my phone
anything that I need to do to the hot tub.
So if the salt level gets too low,
which has never, just so you know,
your salt level never gets too low.
If your pH starts dropping
or your alkalinity starts climbing,
any of those this guy here,
he tests it every hour on the hour
and then sends a notification to my phone
and tells me exactly what I need to do.
So this is a great addition to a salt system.
You can actually put this in any hot tub.
It is really, really good with a salt system.
They work amazing with salt systems
and they keep in duration, everything that's going.
I'll put a link down below on where you can get that.
And if you use the code Hot Tub Lady 10, you will save 10%,
and I'll put all that down in the description below.
So that guy is awesome.
The other thing that you need
is an On The Go water softener,
it's a little portable water softener.
I'll put a picture right over here, just so you can see,
you should be able to buy that from your local dealer.
If you're not, I know Amazon sells them as well.
They are amazing you can wash your car with them.
You can do all kinds of,
but it's a little portable water softener
that you fill the hot tub with.
And I have a lot of videos on this channel
that already talk about the On The Go water care softener.
And even if you don't have a salt system
it's kind of a cool thing to have,
just because, but I highly recommend
the On The Go water softener.
You do have to have it with a salt system.
One thing that I would throw out there,
is if you live in a market
where that you have a lot of metal
or hardness in your water,
it does take a little bit longer
and it's a little more to get it all dialed in.
So kind of keep that in mind, if you have harder water
that is something to definitely consider.
We can definitely work with it,
but it's just something to know upfront
that it's a little bit more to get it dialed in.
I will say on a saltwater system, once you get it dialed in,
that first two weeks
is kind of a little bit of a babysitting period.
And if you've bought from a good dealer,
they're gonna going to walk you through it
and get you completely dialed in.
Once you get it dialed in, that system is awesome.
You only have to change the water once a year.
You have to change the cells every three to four months.
And it's really, really simple.
And the water feels amazing and it is worth every penny
and it is worth the wait, 'cause right now you are probably
gonna have to wait to get one.
A saltwater hot tub is absolutely amazing.
Some myths that I want to take care of right up front,
if you go shopping for a hot tub,
and you go ask somebody who cannot sell salt about salt
they are going to do nothing but slam it.
They're going to say all kinds of things.
You know one of the myths that I get in my dealership,
oh, it's going to ruin your concrete,
or it's going to ruin your deck.
If you pour salt on concrete it's really hard on it.
Yes, that is true if your driveway is covered in ice
which happens all the time here in South Dakota,
and you take salt out there to melt it,
it will melt it but it will also destroy the concrete.
So, that is a true statement.
Is your saltwater hot tub going to do that to your concrete?
Absolutely not, there is no way that's going to happen.
Parts per million of this salt is only 1750
and just doesn't happen.
I personally had this kind of salt system
on my hot tub for about six years now
because I actually tested it,
we have never once seen salt wreck concrete wreck a deck,
it just doesn't happen.
And if you think about all the saltwater swimming pools,
which are double the salt system that's out there
at 3000 parts per million
and I'll have concrete around them.
It's a non-issue.
So that's a, non-issue ruining your hot tub
that it's gonna eat through the components
and do all of that.
That's a non-issue.
And the reason that's a non-issue
is because the manufacturer has stepped up
and done what needs to be done.
Again, it all comes to those components
that titanium heater or the beef of your pumps,
the warranty,
I mean they're standing behind the salt system saying,
I'm gonna give you a seven year warranty
on the shell, five year on everything else,
five years against leaks.
That is the best warranty that's out there on the market.
And we're doing it with the salt system,
fact check anything that you hear
out there in the market,
especially if you hear it from somebody
that doesn't have the ability to sell salt.
'Cause I guarantee if you talk to a dealer
who can sell salt,
they are going to say nothing but good things about it
because that has been absolutely,
a fantastic addition to the line.
Saltwater is awesome.
If I didn't already mention it
salt's been around for a really, really long time.
Saltwater has been on the market for 12 to 15 years.
HotSpring has come up with the new disposable cell,
which is the best technology that's out there
and has just totally eliminated all the problems
that salt systems had before.
So, it is really a good thing.
So I'm actually going to show you
what I would show a customer in the showroom floor.
Okay, so, when it comes to the cell or to the control panel
and I'll put a better color picture in here
so you can see a little better,
but when you hit this teardrop right here,
and that's going to bring up this display right here.
So when you have this at home,
so this is actually off my hot tub,
just right out the other side of the door here.
This dial right here, that measures two things,
that measures how much life is left in the cell,
and I'll show a picture of a cell right over here,
so you can see what I'm talking about,
how much life is left in the cell
and how much salt is in the water.
So that's what this dial right here measures.
It measures those two things.
And when it gets into the red zone
then it's time for some attention.
Tell you that 99.9% of the time, it is not the salt.
Typically once the salt is in the water
it stays in the water.
So usually that means that your cell needs to be changed.
If that gets in, into that red zone on either side of that.
This dial right here, that changes to how much chlorine
you're actually producing.
So for me it was seven
seems to work really well for my family.
So we're gonna set that at seven,
and my hot tub's used a lot.
I've told you guys before
I use my hot tub twice a day, every day.
Anyway, we'll set that at seven.
So you are still producing chlorine,
you're just making your own.
We're gonna do that,
and then about once a week or so
it's time to shock the hot tub.
When you shock the hot tub
you hit that button there, I'm now shocking the hot tub.
And so when you're shocking the hot tub,
what you're doing is you're turning the output
out of your chlorine production
to 100% for 24 hours.
It shuts itself off automatically
but that's what happens there.
And then about every three to four months or so,
you need to go in and change the cell.
Now it'll actually bring up a screen real similar
to this one, but not this exact screen.
There's a few more things on there
but it'll say it's time to change your cell,
say yes, now later, something along those lines
you'll hit the yes button,
it'll shut the pump down, you'll change out your cell,
then you just start it right back up.
And then everything's good to go.
That is really your maintenance on a saltwater hot tub.
The one thing I will tell you every 11 days or so
you just need to hit that button
just so it knows you're using it.
So not a big deal,
you just hit it while you're in the hot tub,
just check everything, make sure it's good
but hit that teardrop.
If you don't do it after 11 days
the hot tub will actually start blinking on the ready light
and say, hey have you checked your hot tub?
And that's another reason
why the saltwater hot tubs are better built hot tub.
They have what they call a ready light
or a diagnostic light.
This is absolutely awesome,
the diagnostic light tells you everything.
So if you call me
and say that the green light's flashing on my hot tub,
I'm going to say when's the last time
you checked your cells out?
If we've done that, then it's gonna tell you
that the filters are dirty
it's gonna tell you that the water level is too low.
It's just an awesome feature to have on a hot tub.
And if you have that, man, it's total peace of mind.
So, all of the HotSpring saltwater systems
have the diagnostic light.
Again, another reason why that salt system is worth it.
But you have the remote control.
Again, I'll put a picture over here
so that you can kind of see that a little better,
my lights kind of mess that up a little bit.
The next thing that is really cool on a salt system
is it just you only have changed water once a year.
And again, I've got tons of videos
just on how to take care of saltwater hot tub.
It is easier, it's different,
It's different than a chlorine tub,
and that I think sometimes
there's a little bit of challenge for people,
but it is easier, the water feels better,
but it's easier it's safer
and it's just better experience all the way around.
My advice to you is check out a saltwater system,
again, they do start a little higher.
That's not in the budget,
I do sell a lot of hot tubs that are not salt water
that are still fantastic.
And they're really, really good hot tubs,
but if you want the absolute best experience,
I will very much consider doing a saltwater system.
Again, you're in that premium to luxury line,
so you're gonna start a little higher price,
you're gonna be in that $12 to $20,000 price range
but it is still an awesome hot tub.
And it is worth it in my opinion it is worth the wait,
get a saltwater hot tub.
I will tell you
to do a HotSpring saltwater hot tub every single time.
And if you choose not to, that's great.
There's lots of other options out there.
In my opinion, out of everything that I sell
the HotSpring saltwater systems
are definitely the best hot tubs on the market today.
Just remember here at The Hot Tub Lady,
we love you very much and keep making life epic.
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