Hot Tub Maintenance and Water Care 101 Balancing Total Alkalinity Calcium Hardness PH and Sanitizer - Video

Welcome to Backyardplus! In this video, we show you how to balance the water in your spa. After refilling your spa, you should immediately test and balance the total alkalinity, calcium hardness, pH and sanitizer level. Please visit us at backyardplus.com for all your OEM Hot Spring, Tiger River, Limelight, Hot Spot and Solana replacement parts. Use our parts finder serial database to help identify parts that belong to your specific hot tub make, model and year: https://backyardplus.com/parts-finder/ For the best prices and service on all your Hot Spring replacement parts, check out: https://backyardplus.com/
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00:00 Beginning
00:21 Products you may need
00:32 Fill the spa through the gray standpipe fitting
01:00 Install the clean screen filter and continue filling the spa
01:22 Balancing the total alkalinity
01:58 Balancing the calcium hardness
02:27 Balancing the pH
03:00 Maintaining the sanitizer level