Confessions of a ThermoSpas Employee

It’s question and anwser time!  These questions came across my desk from ThermoSpas’ customers and I hunted down some hot tub experts to anwser them.  If you have any questions you’d like anwsered send them over to confessions@thermospas.com ! 

Q: Every once in a while I get a brown sludge ring that almost looks like peanut butter — I can wipe it off, but it keeps coming back what is it?

A: It sounds like someone is wearing cosmetics or lotions in your hot tub. Or possibly someone has put moisturizer on because they are afraid their skin will dry out due to the chemicals in the water.  While most of us consider ourselves clean people, moisturizers, body oils, and especially cosmetics can cause a ring such as the one you mention.  The best way to avoid such a ring is to make sure people shower before they get in the tub.

Q: Every time I turn on the blower in my spa it feels like cold air is coming out.  What is happening?

A: First of all, water temperature and air temperature feel different.  Think about entering a sauna; the air temperature could be up to 160 degrees which is steamy and relaxing.  But that same water temperature is much too hot for our skin.  There is a definite difference between how our bodies feel water and air temperatures.

Now, let’s look at what is going on in your spa.  When the spa is in use, it is generating heat.  The heavily insulated cabinet surrounding a ThermoSpas hot tub will trap this heat inside while preventing the cooler, outside air from entering.  The air blowers in a ThermoSpas hot tub are housed inside this insulated cabinet and draw the air that they blow from within.  Because of this unique design, the ThermoSpas blowers are blowing air into your water that is 90-95 degrees – no matter what the outside temperature.  The blowers in many competitors’ spas are housed outside of the cabinet meaning that they draw in and blow air from the outside.  Depending on the time of year, this means that a competitor spa could be blowing 70, 50, even 30 degrees or cooler air into your water.

So yes, the 90-95 degree air that a ThermoSpas blower is blowing is certainly cooler that the 102 temperatures feel differently, it may seem even cooler than that.  But, unlike a competitor spa, the air from your blower is actually far from being cold.