- Hey folks,
it's Jacqui,
The Hot Tub Lady.
And welcome back to my channel.
What we are doing today,
is we are going to purge the hot tub.
I did ask you guys
what you wanted to see next,
and what you wanted to see
was how to purge your hot tub.
And your timing couldn't be any better.
Stay tuned,
I will be right back
and we are gonna show you all the tips and tricks
on how to purge your hot tub.
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So, hey guys, welcome back.
I'm super excited you're here
and today's topic,
we are going to ask the question,
how do you purge your hot tub?
Because this is
something that you guys all have to do.
You need to do it at least once a year.
And it's really important
and your hot tub will run like it's brand new
if you do this.
But before we get into that,
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So let's just get into it
right now.
So,
first things first on any hot tub.
Mine is nasty.
I actually-
I knew I was gonna shoot this video
and my salt system was burned up,
so it was time to
get a new salt cell.
So in the process, I thought,
well, I'm just gonna
let it go for a week
until I have time to actually
shoot this video
and today's the day.
And my hot tub has,
I've been missing it
because I haven't been using the hot tub
because it just hasn't been really good.
But first things first.
Step number one.
Is you want to
kill the power.
So flip the breaker boxes.
If you have a two breaker system,
just left to right.
If you have a one breaker system,
just the one.
If it's a 110 unit, just unplug it.
But you always wanna kill the power first.
That's step number one.
I'll show some videos over here on how to do that.
Step number two,
is to take the filters out.
And then I'll link a video up here
on how to clean a filter.
But, I mean,
you're gonna drain the hot tub.
You're gonna clean it at this point.
Gross.
So anyway,
we're gonna pull those out.
I am going to take those
in and I'm gonna clean those.
Again, I will link a video up here.
So step number one,
pull the filters out.
So that's the most important step.
Step number two,
is you're actually gonna pour
your purge in it.
Now check your different manufacturers.
The one I recommend most is
something called Spa purge.
It's by Natural Chemistry.
That one is my favorite.
I am actually going to do a
beta test for someone here.
So I'm not gonna give you the details on that,
but we're gonna kind of see how that goes.
But the process is the same
no matter whose purge you're using.
You always wanna pull the filters out
and then you're gonna pour in the perch
and then you're gonna let the jets run
for about an half hour.
Now, the one trick I will give you
is that typically when you're purging your hot tub
you're cleaning out all these really gross lines
and that'll actually stick to the side of the hot tub.
So pretty important that you kind of-
that first 15, 20 minutes of that
you wanna kind of stick around
and I'll show a video what happens with this.
This is a new one,
but what happens with this.
And then you can just kind of wanna bail that out
and not let it stick to the side of the hot tub.
So I'm gonna do this for you guys right now
and then
I'll be back.
So, hey guys, I'm back
and we are at my hot tub and we'll probably see
I got some icky stuff here.
And we had quite a bit of foam come out on this one.
Again,
I am beta testing
a new purge for a friend of mine.
But,
all tubs are gonna do this.
They're all gonna foam.
Some of the more,
some of them less.
One of the things that you can do
which is kind of a cool feature,
is you can actually take that-
your filters and you can actually have them soaking
in that filter-
in that purge right now.
And it'll help clean those filters
but you wanna take them-
You just wanna put them in the body of the tub.
They don't necessarily need to be in
the filter compartment.
You don't want it filtering all that,
but you can just throw them in there.
And then at that point,
you need to clean them really good
but that's a good filter cleaner as well.
But one of the things that I did wanna point out
I don't know if you guys can see that or not
but I did turn the-
I did turn the
waterfall feature on there.
I don't know if that showed up there or not,
but you do-
You do wanna have all your waterfall features open
and everything so that you can get those lines
cleaned out as well.
But the next thing I'm gonna do,
is I'm actually going to turn the jets off.
Now, I'm going to
kill the power.
And again, I'll put that video right up here
on how to kill the power.
And then I'm gonna take this
super cool
pump that I just bought on Amazon.
I'll put a link down below.
You guys,
this'll drain this hot tub in like 25 minutes.
It is absolutely incredible.
It's like $130,
but it's worth every penny.
At least my time's worth that much.
So, but check that out.
This guy here.
I'm just gonna unroll it
and plug it in.
And I'm just gonna send him right in the hot tub.
I will kind of videotape that
and speed that up for you guys.
So you guys can see that.
And then we're gonna wipe it down.
Pro tip.
While this pump is still in there,
then I'm gonna take a garden hose
and I'm gonna hose it down
while it's still draining.
And I'm just gonna leave that pump in there
and keep going that way.
You can always use a drain
at the bottom of the hot tub.
You guys,
this is the bomb.
This is what you need.
So, I will be back.
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Okay, then another little trick is
if you wanna bail
when you start getting down to the bottom of this,
which
you bail that all out
and just kind of bail that to the middle,
but the cool thing with his floater on here,
if you just hold this up,
then it starts running again
and it'll drain that out real quickly.
So that's another cool little trick
that will help you out a lot when
getting the hot tub drain really, really quickly.
Okay guys.
Now you can see I'm filling the hot tub back up.
Make sure you put the hose
down that gray stand pipe up,
so, as it starts filling back up
it will help with the circulation pumping
kind of see where it's coming in
over there and over there.
It's starting to fill back up.
But when you're cleaning it
make sure you get up underneath
the rim of the filter compartment.
That is actually one of the areas
that gets just the most grossest.
So make sure that you're cleaning that up as well
and yeah,
now am just filling back up,
and I hope this is helpful.
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