[Xavier]

Originally Posted by Billyg

So, we will leave the water in. Should we have our house watcher run the water thru when she does her weekly visits or is that unnecessary ?

This past summer we decided to just shock ours and shut it down. When we came back it was the greenist of greens and you couldn't even see the bottom. We drained it and spent a good deal of time scrubbing it down with clorox and water and then refilling, shocking, etc.

Our spa (10 person) takes so little care that we're going to keep ours running this summer - it's way too much work otherwise. If I were you I'd think about setting the automatic timer to run a couple of hours each day and have your house watcher check the water level and bromine tabs every two weeks or so.

I think the small electric costs to run the spa pump would be more than offset by the savings we realized by putting in the dehumidistat last year for the air conditioning.

Xavier