Hot Tub Forum
Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: BearBath on May 21, 2006, 12:25:19 pm
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This is mostly to thank those of you who helped me with this problem.
To recap for newbies, I came back from a vacation to find that I had lots of white flakes floating around the hot tub. It almost looked like dandruff! The stuff would disappear if you rubbed it between your fingers.
I was told that it was "paper mold", an organic biofilm that was growing in the plumbing of the spa.
I tried sanitizing it, but nothing worked.
Here is what I finally did;
I put in LOTS of dichlor. I think it was about 8 oz. I washed and chemically cleaned the filters (Tri-X) twice and then physically washed them every day for a week. I ran the pumps with the diverter in the 12 oclock position for several hours and drained about a gallon out through the two ground level drains to make sure the high chlorine liquid purged that area.
It took about a week for the chlorine levels to drop down to normal levels, despite taking Chas' advice of throwing my kids in a few times! Once the CL levels dropped, the rest of the chemistry seemed to also drop back into normal. I have seen no white flakes in a week.
Thanks to everyone for the great advice! Especially to Chas who put up with a phone call too!
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Around of applause for the forum. ;D
AND, a standing ovation for the selfless efforts of Chas to make Hot Tub living more enjoyable for all. ;D
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Yes, Chas has helped me out also. He does all this for free which is very rare in today's society.
On a side note. I never want to experience this exercise. What do I have to do prevent water mold?
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Yes, Chas has helped me out also. He does all this for free which is very rare in today's society.
On a side note. I never want to experience this exercise. What do I have to do prevent water mold?
stay up on your chemicals weekly and you won't have that problem......if you get behind or have a ton of useage and you don't correct it that can happen....
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Your system must be running at 99% no bypass or less.
Oh well. :P
Steve
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Congrats Bearbath! Enjoy the lovely Rochester weather in your sparkly clean tub. Oh, wait...