Re: Gas heated hot tubs?

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:25:41 GMT, Mys Terry
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:37:30 -0500, "No" <no@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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hot tubs generally kewep the same water all the time... kinda gross if
you ask me.

jacuzzi bathtubs get filled and emptied after use a much better
arrangement


Thats kind of what I thought - Why not use it like you would a jacuzzi? Fill
it every time? I would assume it has a gravity drain. That coupled with your
favorite NG demand (Tankless) water heater and then you only need 'lectric
to maintain the heat while you are using it. Why am I even commenting I know
sh** about hot tubs.


Even a relatively small hot tub holds about 250 gallons. Draining it
is not at all like draining a bathtub, either. It's not hooked up to
the house plumbing, so you need a place for all that water to go.
There will always be a gallon or two of water that must be bailed and
sponged out of the very bottom. It also means taking off an access
cover to drain it, and blowing compressed air through all of the pipes
to clear them so nothing grows in them while dormant. When you refill
the tub, you would also have to bleed the plumbing. It's not that hard
to do a few times a year during normal water changes, but draining and
filling a hot tub between each use would be moronic.

It's not a problem to keep it sanitary, and it's not expensive to keep
it heated.

You change the water about 4 times a year depending on usage and other
factors.

Finally, having used both a jacuzzi and a hottub, I can tell you that
a jacuzzi does not give anywhere near the same experience. It's a
pretty poor second place at best.


The chemicals used in a hot tub, chlorine, bromine, ozone, etc. are
used to kill that bacteria that might otherwise form from keeping a
standing body of warm water for an extended period of time. The human
body sheds a layer of skin while bathing and filtration is necessary
to collect this and the other organic solids that will otherwise
collect in the water.

If you pay for city metered water, the expense of filling up a 250
gallon hot tub every other day would quickly add up. Also to bring
that much water to an operating temperature of 101 F would be high
compared keeping the tub at some standby intermediate temperature and
just applying heat to make up for the losses.

Beachcomber

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