Jets, What's More Important to You - The Number or The Feel?

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If you thought your hot tub was just for fun, read on! 

Warm and Rested
Ah… Winter can be cozy if we hibernate properly with sufficient sleep and healthy heat, to keep our immune systems strong. Here’s a tootsie tip: keep your feet warm and dry with good wooly socks.  A 2005 study by the Common Cold Centre in Cardiff (United Kingdom) reported that subjects who had their feet chilled in ice water developed colds 2.6 times more frequently.

Why?  Viruses thrived in the frigid-foot folks because the temperature plunge constricted the blood vessels in their noses, preventing delivery of infection-fighting white blood cells.
 
Drinking beverages like tea and hot apple cider by a roaring fireplace, wrapped in a quilt over thick cotton pajamas, after a steaming hot bath or shower, is also a sure recipe for both comfort and cold-and-flu resistance.  Also, try a sauna!  A 1990 University of Vienna study with 25 sweaty volunteers discovered that there were “significantly fewer episodes of common cold in the sauna group.”  

Hot tubs provide similar benefits. 

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The Flair by Hot Spring

Filled and Treated with The ACE Salt Water Sanitizing System by Hot Spring.

Unfilled, check out the lights!

Do They Tell You These Things When You are Shopping for That New Hot Tub?

The other guys method for having an ENERGY EFFICIENT hot tub:

TURN IT DOWN IF YOU AREN'T USING THE HOT TUB!

Yikes.

Just how much DO their hot tubs cost to run?

Um a lot.

Just how convenient is this for you, the hot tub owner?

Easy to Own! Spa Control System

IQ 2020 Hot Tub Controls

Intuitive Controls

The IQ 2020® spa control system is the brains inside every Hot Spring spa, including yours.

It’s such a snap to program, we bet you'll have it mastered in about a minute. 3.5” high-resolution color LCD screen is easy to read even at night.

A built-in memory saves your favorite settings.

10-minute clean-up cycle kicks in with the push of a button when you leave your spa.

The Absolute Easiest Spa Side Controls, Displaying Actual Temperature - Not Set Temperature

On/Ready Indicator Light

Easy to see the spa is on and at temperature.

Located on the right side of the front cabinet panel (except Custom Cabinet models).

Easy to Own!

100% No-Bypass Filtration

Ewww! Yuck!

100% No-Bypass filtration means that all the water passes through the hot tub filters before it enters the spa.

With other spas, water can bypass the filter when the jets are on – the very time when you're in the spa and need clean water the most.

Bypassing occurs when there's too much pump and not enough filter - forcing unfiltered water, complete with body oils and debris, directly back into the spa.



Nearly every hot tub has filters and every hot tub has pumps... but how they combine the two couldn't be more different. 

Here's why:

Hot Spring spas filter all the water all the time.

SPA-Article # 4: What if Regular, Routine Maintenance Isn't Enough?

If It's a Habit, It Gets Done. Right?

Most certainly yes! But what if you are regularly and routinely performing your hot tub maintenance steps and you still are experiencing cloudy water, itchy skin, etc?

Well, it may not be you. It could be the hot tub.

Some hot tubs require more maintenance than other hot tubs.

Just like anything in life, you do get what you pay for - superior water quality, with little effort on your part or average or poor water quality with A LOT of work required by you.

25 Square Foot Filter ?

65 Square Foot Filter?

First of all, does your hot tub have the proper amount of filtration?

325 Square Feet of Filtration

It makes sense that more is better when it comes to hot tub filtration.


Hot tubs that have several filters or larger filters can filter more particles out of the water. That means longer time between filter cleanings.

Multiple filter design not only makes water care easier, it extends the life of the filters,

saving the customer hundreds of dollars over the life of the spa. 

Because only one filter works all the time, if you rotate them like tires on a car, they should last 3-5 years! 

Easier on you (your budget) and the filters and the pumps...

If you have 350 gallon hot tub (average size of most tubs), which would you prefer:  25 square feet or 325 square feet?

Silent flo 5000 Circulation Pump

Secondly, how many hours does your hot tub filter and circulate the water daily?

How many hours a day does the water pass through the filter(s)? 

Image if the water was filtered 24 hours a day. That would mean particles were being filtered out of the hot tub water continuously. Not just a couple of hours a day (or less if programmed to do so) Yuck.

A circulation pump is a small, independent pump that continuously filters the hot tub water 24 hours a day. Some hot tubs have them, some hot tubs don't.

Some hot tubs that don't have a circulation pump, may have a (larger) 2 speed pump, that includes a high and a low speed. When there is a drop in temperature the low speed pump turns on and circulates the water. Better than no circulation pump, but still not 24 hour - constant - filtration. 

If your hot tub doesn't have constant filtration, you will work harder to maintain to cleaner, healthier water.

Lastly, is every drop of water filtered?

Is every drop of water filtered before returning back to the hot tub or does some of the water go through floor drains (by pass fittings) and back to the hot tub unfiltered? ONLY Hot Spring offers 100% No-Bypass Filtration.

The Difference between No-Bypass vs By Pass Filtration

Question: The most important part of your hot tub experience is the water. 

How much do you want to work on your water?

How much do you expect your hot tub to work for you?

A little or a lot?

Shouldn't the thing you experience the most - the water - be the thing that should require the least effort from you? 




A Ozone System

Standard with all Hot Spring hot tubs, the FreshWater® III high-output ozone system.

Working 24/7, it continuously injects millions of tiny, highly concentrated ozone bubbles into the water. These ozone bubbles neutralize contaminants on contact.

The system uses a corona discharge cell, requiring virtually no maintenance.


Additional Water Care Option:

Want the easiest, most carefree and cleanest hot tub water?

Check out the "ACE".

You Hear The Water - NOT - The Motor

The Hot Spring filtration system skims and filters more spa water than any other system available. It is absolutely the easiest spa to enjoy and own.

It’s totally automatic, so there’s no need to program long cleaning and heating cycles as in other spas.

Nor do you have the wear and tear, energy drain or noise of a large jet pump running during those cycles. Operating silently and efficiently, your Hot Spring spa is always hot, clean and ready to enjoy.

The SilentFlo 5000 circulation pump

SilentFlo 5000 Circulation Pump Low Flow Filtering

quietly provides continuous filtration and circulation, silently and efficiently filtering over 5,000 gallons of water per day.

Constant circulation helps to maintain a constant temperature for the spa, and limits the amount of energy output required by the heater.

Nearly all of the energy used to run the pump is transferred directly into the water as heat energy, resulting in continuous savings on heating costs.

The SilentFlo 5000 pump features a patented design that is exclusive to Watkins Manufacturing so it’s designed to be perfectly in tune with the flow rate of our heater and our jet pumps – and costs less to power than a 40-watt light bulb.

Powerful Wavemaster Jet Pump High Flow Filtering.

Wavemaster Jet Pumps

Every Hot Spring hot tub has an efficient Wavemaster jet pump(s).
The Wavemaster pumps provide vigorous massage through the spa's jets, and is only active when the jets are turned on.






Hydraulically Efficient Plumbing 

— Our manifold plumbing system minimizes restrictions in the water flow, so less jet horsepower (and less energy) is required to deliver a strong feel at the jets.