Enjoy Your Hot Tub Year Round
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Published: June 16, 2010 07:01 AM
Your hot tub can be a place of enjoyment for you, your family and all of your guests year round. There is no reason to leave your hot tub out in the cold, so to speak. It provides you with plenty of great entertainment and relaxation all during the spring and summer months. You can repay it by letting it in on all of your holiday festivities as well.
Instead of just using your hot tub in the warm months, keep it going for your enjoyment year-round. Most hot tubs in NY are equipped to do this. They make specific hot tub supplies that you can purchase if you live in extremely cold climates to prevent your water from freezing. With a little extra planning, you can have everyone wearing a party hat in the hot tub, drinking eggnog at New Year's. If the odds are in your favor, you may get a little snow for an added beauty factor it will just depend on where you live.
The first thing you will need to check is that your hot tub has a no-freeze setting. It will need to be set to this during cold weather. This will keep water from freezing in any of the pipes and keep the tub at a set temperature all of the time. You will also need to remember that it will take longer in colder weather for the tub to warm up before getting in if you want it hotter than you are normally keeping it set. If your hot tub does not have this setting, you will need to set the hot tub's timer to come on approximately every 15 minutes in order to prevent the water and pipes from freezing.
A few items that you will need to purchase in order to use your hut tub during the winter are a floating thermal blanket, an insulated cover and extra hot tub filters. The filters will need to be changed more often if you are running it year round; this is pretty standard. The insulated cover will help prevent freezing and it also reduces the amount of energy that your hot tub will need to keep warm. The floating thermal blanket will also keep the heat in the water and reduce the amount of energy necessary, and your chemical usage.
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