About three minutes a month.
Test, balance, sanitize, care. The 100 feet of filtration and the non-porous shell do the heavy lifting, so most months you barely touch it. Here's the whole routine, in order.
Four moves. Most weeks you only do the first one.
Follow the same order every time: test, balance, sanitize, care. The biggest tub we build takes about three minutes a month of care. The 100 feet of filtration and the non-porous shell handle what you can't see.
Dip a strip
Dip a test strip and read the colour against the chart. Most weeks the water is already sitting right where it should be, nothing else to do.
Nudge the pH
If a reading is off, add a little pH Up or pH Down to bring it back. Target range is 7.2 to 7.8. Most of the time you do nothing here.
A tablespoon of chlorine
Add about a tablespoon of chlorine every one to two weeks. Add the optional Ecozone ozone upgrade and it knocks down bacteria between doses, which is why you barely smell chlorine.
Rinse & refresh
Rinse the filters with a hose now and then. Replace the water every 10 months to a year, on a change, just spray the sides with vinegar and water.
Keep the essentials obvious.
In the same order as the routine: test, balance, sanitize, care. Standard basics you can grab anywhere, all standard chemistry.
Quick pH, alkalinity, and sanitizer readings. Dip, wait, compare colours.
Measures total dissolved solids, an easy cue for when it's time to refresh the water.
Raises pH when a reading drops below 7.2. Use sparingly.
Lowers pH when a reading goes above 7.8. A few grams usually does it.
Raises total alkalinity to stabilize pH. Target: 80–120 ppm.
About a tablespoon every one to two weeks. We run the same on our E6 and never smell it.
An occasional oxidizer to clear contaminants. Many owners shock when they sanitize.
Rinse now and then; replace once a year. Two of them, 100 feet of filtration in all.
Run it before a water change to clear buildup from the plumbing lines.
Knocks down surface foam from soaps or lotions carried in on swimwear.
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