Tips to ensure your Hot Tub this Cold of Winter Months

Most spa owners and spa, and to use their tub year round. In fact, many people enjoy the warmth of a relaxing hot tub or spa more during cold winter months. However, if you are not one of those guys and want to shut your hot tub down during the colder months of the year, it is necessary to take special precautions to ensure that the freezing weather does not damage your hot tub or the computer.

Even if you decide not to use his hot tub, you can still operate during the winter, so the freezing weather does not damage the equipment and plumbing. If you prefer to completely switch off, then you must follow these steps when the winter is. A shop vac can vacuum water, a few large towels and a garden hose are useful items to have on hand.

* Turn off the electricity by turning off the circuit breaker. If it's a portable model which is not hard with cable connection, just unplug it. Removed the hot tub cover completely, and also remove or open all doors of access to housing areas of plumbing, pump and heater.

* Locate the outlet of the hot tub and connect the hose. When the drain valve opens the water should begin to flow if the hose is extended and is below the water level in the tub. When the flow of water, disconnect the hose, but leave the valve open.

* Some hot tubs have an air channel under the seats to provide bubbling action. You will have to turn off or unplug the heater and spa pump individually and then turn right to the tub again. It is important to ensure that there is no electricity to the pump and the heater because both could be damaged if run without water.

* Turn the fan hot tub and let it touch the water channel air for 30 seconds or less. When finished be sure and turn off the electricity at the switch again.

* Remove the filter cartridge and keep it in your garage or basement.

* Look carefully around the pump and filter heating accessories that you may be able to dismount. Sometimes, they have tabs on those who stand to be slightly easier to grip and turn by hand. Remove any of these can be found along with drain plugs and let the water drain.

* A shop vac really comes in handy at this point. You need to close the control inlets usually located on the upper edge of the hot tub, and all the hose shop vac so that blow. Entering the spa and put the hose against the Jets, one by one. In doing so the water will be forced out of the rest of the planes and also the accessories that has drawn around the pump and heater. Continue from one aircraft to another until no more water is coming.


* Restoring hose shop vac and suck out all the water in the bathtub bottoom well and can be in the seats. A quick massage on the inside with a soft towel should finish the job.

* Put back deck hot tub at the spa. Because most hot tub covers some water will seep back into the tub, which is good to cover the full spa with a tarp or cover specially designed for winter.

Here are some helpful hints that will help your investment and hard earned money is not going to waste during the cold winter months. By making some adjustments combined with a couple of hours of work can be assured that your spa or hot tub is free from damage when the warm spring months arrive.