Hi thank you for the reply.

Lets see here. The answers to your excellent questions.

Yes it has a new corona discharge ozonator.
I hope to use it a couple times a week.
It could be up to 4 people but usually only 2 will be in it at a given time.
We usually soak until the spa motor goes back down to low. about 15 minutes or so. Rarely we go a little longer.
Been keeping the temp a 101 but that may creep up as Winter sets in.
Spa is completely covered with its cover on a covered deck. No connections to a pool.
I rarely travel. Mostly at home. I'm ok with daily maintenance but I'd like to "forget a day" once in a great while if you know what I mean.

Bonus answers:
Spa is a Catalina XL14000
Spa is about 400 gallons
Spa gets filled with water from our house well which is about 400 feet down.
The well water PH is high around the high 8's or so.
Seems like I use quite a bit of Spa Down to bring it to recommended levels. But I am learning not to sweat this too much (after reading poolsolutions.com) as I dont really get scaling. In fact I drained out our house water heater a while back after running for 12 years and it had little scaling at all.
That said the Baking Soda and Borax part of this equation is probably less relevant. However I will lean on the board's sage advice on this one.

I hope that helps. Thanks for your time.


Quote Originally Posted by chem geek View Post
Welcome to The PoolForum!

First we need to figure out which method will work best for you for your spa. Does your spa have an ozonator? How often do you plan to use the spa? How many people will be soaking in it at one time and for how long? Do you have the spa water hot (104ºF) for soaking? Is it covered and a separate hot tub not connected to a pool? Do you travel a lot or are you able to maintain the spa every day or two if needed?