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Will Jacuzzi stand up to a Canadian Winter?

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bud16415:
My tub has an inline feeder system with cartridges for sanitation that are intended to slowly release product and if the tub is balanced it should be good after 3 weeks. There are also tubs with built in chlorine generators that convert salt water in the tub to sanitizer day in and day out. These can be part of the tub from the manufacture or added into the tub or there are even after market unites that are independent of the tub. The cartridges are sized for one month. The salt gen units will go indefinably.

The only time I use my inline system is when I go away for a few weeks. The rest of the time I just dose the tub manually after we get out. Doing that saves a little money and I feel is a little more accurate because of how the bather load is up and down in our tub.

The worse thing would be getting a brand new tub and using it heavy for a week and then leaving it for a month with the inline feeder set to what your dealer might recommend and coming back and finding you weren’t putting in enough sanitizer to keep up. It took me about 3 months to get a good feel of how much was needed when. If you have a new tub like that and use it heavy and know you are going to be gone for 3 weeks I would set the feeder to the maintain setting and then hit the tub very hard with sanitizer right before I left. If normal you would like to see 2PPM I would dose it by hand up to maybe 10-20 PPM leave it open for an hour drop the temp to 98-100f make sure the cover was down tight and strapped and locked and leave. On returning I would open it up turn it back up to 103-104 and test the water. should be 2-5 PPM. It will only take it an hour or two to warm up, and then jump in.   

Tman122:

--- Quote from: d00nut on August 25, 2017, 01:20:41 am ---Placing a sump pump without a plumbing line in the bottom of the spa will also keep it nice and warm.  That's what we do in the event that a power outage last really long.  (Doesn't have to be a big sump pump either.)

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I'm not following? If there is no power a sump pump won't work. But if you are concerned about a power outage you should keep a small generator. And I guess that will run a sump pump. I get moving the water around to keep it from freezing but I think the water in the vessel is pretty safe. It's the water in the lines I worry about.

And actually if you are concerned about a power outage you should have a generator for your heating system in your house. And drain your tub.

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