Winterizing Your Spa or Jacuzzi Properly

If you are the proud owner of a hot tub spa or Jacuzzi it is important that you know how to properly winterize your spa equipment. Most likely you have a substantial investment in your spa or Jacuzzi so do yourself and your wallet a favor. Unless you live in an area of the country that never has freezing temperatures you must properly shut the system down or at a minimum some vital parts of your system will be damaged or even destroyed.

The enemy here is water and the catalyst that turns the water from the fun aspect of your spa into the enemy within is freezing temperatures. Your spa or Jacuzzi has major components that will crack or even split wide open if water freezes within them. Because there are many twists and turns of pipes and valves in your system it is not enough to simply turn off the water to your spa. Further, although many spa units have a special drain placed on the bottom of all the equipment it is also not always sufficient to open this drain point and walk away. When performing the winterizing steps mentioned below do not forget any pumps are are part of your spa system. They may have special draining procedures of their own that must be followed.

If you were to hire a professional to winterize your spa, which is one of your options, what they would do is this. The water supply to the spa would be totally disconnected from the spa; not just turned off. The point where water normally enters, and was just cut off should have an air supply connected and a reasonably good level of air pressure would be used to push out as much water from lines and values as possible. This might need to be done on both sides of any filter system you have in place.

If the filter system is sand, the sand should be removed and the sand pot cleaned with the air flow cleaning flush to be done after the removal of the filter sand.