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It's been ok for the first week, but now is very cloudy and somewhat smelly. We think we've been going wrong in not adding some non-chlorine shock after use, and possibly not having enough bromine in it anyway (it uses an in-line Frog cartidge-thingy-type-wotsit). Any experts in the house??
WCA is the sex-soup connoisseur round these parts isnt he?
not having enough bromine in it
Not enough Bromide, maybe? 🙂
More Cocoon than sex soup... 😉
sex-soup
Available from brothels?
ewww gross.
might your duck house have sprung a leak ?
You need a beaker on the side of the tub.
😆
You won't die, but you might get pregnant.
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You won't die, but you might get pregnant.
At my age? 😯
[i]You need a beaker on the side of the tub[/i]
😯 😆 😆 just choked on my coffee
lol: just choked on my coffee
Extra cream?
Talk about first world problems 😆
and also ew.
Drain the tub through a fine mesh stocking.
Boil for 1 hour.
Add carrots, onions, turnip and lamb and reduce to a simmer.
I would just like to say there have been no bodily fluids spilt in my hot tub, it is just for sitting back and relaxing in 😀
Foxes and Badgers probably shag in it nightly. Just saying...
They're damn clever if they can unfasten and lift the cover 🙂
I would just like to say there have been no bodily fluids spilt in my hot tub, it is just for sitting back and relaxing in
"relaxing"
Yes, you will die - slowly and painfully.
Your body will become covered by boils and pustules which will leak.
Check with undertaker about plague pits.
Pustules is a great word!
I would just like to say there have been no bodily fluids spilt in my hot tub
and yet it is cloudy....
The evidence doth contradict the Lady's protestations...
there have been no bodily fluids spilt in my hot tub, it is just for sitting back and relaxing in
Do you owe in your hot tub?
not having enough bromine
I had to dispose of 500g of bromine once where there were no hazardous waste companies available, and even if there were it had been smuggledd into the country by Chinese man called Frank in the boot of his car so we couldn't have used them.
You duuuurty boy!!!!!
On a more helpful note....
We are on chlorine with ours rather than bromine, but it's probably fairly similar in practice.
The key is to only go in "clean" i.e. no muddy knees, no make up, no body lotion (it's not going well so far is it!) don't wash your cozzies as they will hold a bit of the soap, no sun cream etc.
They will all make yer sex pool cloudy.
You can get clarifier treatment for it (the tub that is!), and anti foam stuff too. On our old tub (had it 8 years) we never needed any of that as we always went in clean. If you have kids that go in it they can make it murkier as they are generally oiky, and teanagers with hair gel and make up and all that stuff.
Never used chlorine shock either.
Just me and the missis tho, so no filth of ANY kind 🙁
New tub been in for a month and it's crystal clear and used daily. We got some shock sachets with the chemical pack, and I've used one, but don't think I'll buy any myself.
So you might get away with clarifier, and making sure the chemistry is right. Or you might need a drain and refill and only go in clean.
Possibly detergent from people's hair and bathing suits.
Clean filter and refill.
We mainly get issues with people who dont shower before use and then it foams.
Bromine and sex tub user here. Mine is spotless. You can recover cloudy water. I'd suggest you got out and forgot to treat? 1st rule of tubs, always treat after use. I shock mine once a fortnight or after a particularly heavy petting session. I use an oxidizing clarifier. Genuinely though you do need to look after it. You got test strips?
You got test strips?
See! They even come with pregnancy tests.
Drain the tub through a fine mesh stocking.
Boil for 1 hour.
Add carrots, onions, turnip and lamb and reduce to a simmer.
😆
We mainly get issues with people who dont shower before use and then it foams.
Eww you need to invite nicer people to your sex parties
In a previous life I did Legionella risk assesements part of which involved taking and analysing water samples from hot tubs and Spa's.
Not set foot in one since. In fact I wouldnt go withing 10 yards of one now.
That reminds me, my dad used to test the water quality in the local swimming pool. He claimed it was most polluted after the girls from the grammar school had been in 😯
In a previous life I did Legionella risk assesements part of which involved taking and analysing water samples from hot tubs and Spa's.Not set foot in one since. In fact I wouldnt go withing 10 yards of one now.
You have to go to serious lengths of poor chemical management to get to those scenarios.
Our shower at work was closed for 6 months after it failed a Legionella test!
[i] it failed a Legionella test! [/i]
what have the Romans every done for us?
Many, many moons ago I worked with a guy who had a summer job trialling various new sex pond chemicals for ICI. One of the properties in the trial belonged to a, now disgraced, TV personality. The twice weekly visits to test his sex pond could be a bit of any eye opener as it was occasionally frothing with naughty ladies doing naughty things. In fact he was once asked if he fancied joining in!
News of the TV personality in question’s fall from grace wasn’t much of a surprise as I was told back in 1985 that he was a “Dirty Bastard”.
Back to the OP... It is probably some sperms. Get a sieve.
It is probably some sperms. Get a sieve.
*other whales are available
My neighbors have a muckybucketsexpond, it's been shat in by Pigeons 5 times this afternoon 😕
footflaps - Member
Our shower at work was closed for 6 months after it failed a Legionella test!POSTED 1 HOUR AGO # REPORT-POST
You don't tend to run bromine through the works hw system though do you?
In answer to your question, probably not but you will break your rule about bodily fluids!
wrightyson - Member
Bromine and sex tub user here. Mine is spotless. You can recover cloudy water. I'd suggest you got out and forgot to treat? 1st rule of tubs, always treat after use. I shock mine once a fortnight or after a particularly heavy petting session. I use an oxidizing clarifier. Genuinely though you do need to look after it. You got test strips?
I definitely got out and didn't treat it - didn't realise we had to until it went cloudy! Lady at hot tub shop has now told us to use a little bit of non-chlorine shock after we get out, so will do in future! The man at the hot tub shop today told us to make sure the ph is 7.2, no higher cos apparently Lincolnshire is water is full of, err, something or other, can't remember what he said. So, ph reducer has gone in, left a while, checked and another dose gone in. Will see how it is in a while.
Thanks for all the suggestions, but we don't need the beaker by the hot tub 🙂 The only beakers we have near it are full of either cider or beer 🙂
Must go now, cloudy or not, I'm going for a dip...
Anyone else not feeling at all tempted by hot tubs?
no higher cos apparently Lincolnshire is water is full of, err, something or other,
If it's hard/alkaline water then it could be simply be the cleaning chemicals turning it cloudy. Phosphoric acid cleaner used in brewing does anyway.
You don't tend to run bromine through the works hw system though do you?
Actually, you do, the water company adds chloroamine (other chlorine based sanitisers are available).
The problem comes when people design systems with air gaps in tanks/cisterns to prevent backflow and meet peak demands, which is all well and good, but means you lose most of the protection. Depending on the size of the plant/site/building the waters sometimes treated with more chlorine as it leaves the cistern to make up for what's lost.
eww, gross.
[i]The problem comes when people [s]design systems with air gaps in tanks/cisterns to prevent backflow and meet peak demands, which is all well and good, but means you lose most of the protection. Depending on the size of the plant/site/building the waters sometimes treated with more chlorine as it leaves the cistern to make up for what's lost.[/s] get the sperms in it.[/I]
FTFY
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The official term is turbidity. Not to be confused with turditity (which is something different.... 
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*Glass media filter and a BFO circ pump.... 😆
*not being serious
I thought they'd be great to have till I lived with a girl with one, yes champagne and moonlight and whatever is fun, and it never went soupy, but it cost a bomb to heat and you needed to spend too much time testing/adding chemicals/cleaning filters/getting leaves and spiders out. And it rapidly stopped being fun.
From a work point of view I have seen some people with interesting rashes from them too... 🙂
Anyone else not feeling at all tempted by hot tubs?
Only when I'm caught short out for a run. Just hop over a fence, leave a deposit and continue with the run...
my sister in law built one from scratch which is wood fired with a little stove she also cannibalised a back boiler into. Cheap to run and can have hot coffee on the stove top. She was horrified when I suggested what her teenage boys were going to be doing in it with the local teenage girls...
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Only when I'm caught short out for a run. Just hop over a fence, leave a deposit and continue with the run...
You are Tom Dumoulin and I claim my £5.
How much jizz is in there ? 😯
Pampas grass blocking the filter?
I definitely got out and didn't treat it - didn't realise we had to until it went cloudy! Lady at hot tub shop has now told us to use a little bit of non-chlorine shock after we get out, so will do in future! The man at the hot tub shop today told us to make sure the ph is 7.2, no higher cos apparently Lincolnshire is water is full of, err, something or other, can't remember what he said. So, ph reducer has gone in, left a while, checked and another dose gone in. Will see how it is in a while.
Regardless of all the piss taking above it is possible to keep it clean and what you are being told by the "salesman" isn't right.
At the end of the day, salesman is all they are and don't really give a **** if you develop a rash once you've blown your load 😉
As my kids go in it I'm fastidious about the water quality and following a pretty quick and simple regime you'll keep it that way. Adding ph + - is required but again it's not a cure and actually keeping it neutral is a fine art. If you can be arsed to read it I don't mind dropping you an email with some tips to keep it right, let me know.
Anyone else not feeling at all tempted by hot tubs?
Never have, never will.
Hmmm Terrorvision from the 80's spring to mind!
How much jizz is in there ?
taste it and see how salty it is
Anyone else not feeling at all tempted by hot tubs?
Ive also gone off porridge for breakfast.
I thought we were all agreed that turgidity has been the problem here ?The official term is turbidity. Not to be confused with turditity (which is something different.... )
Crack a couple of eggs in, works for consomme. Although you might end up with mutant man-chicken monsters
Anyone else not feeling at all tempted by hot tubs?
Me.
Ive got this amazing invention at my gaff.
Its called a bath. its even got its own private room
What does any of this have to do with time travel?
Anyone else not feeling at all tempted by hot tubs?
Tubs are easy fodder for forum jokes but are one of the great relaxers after a ride.
Wouldn't be without ours and certainly never had any filthy issues with very simple maintenance.
Above -a bath's temperature drops in use and doesn't invigorate you the same. In the cold evenings there is no equal!
Not for everyone, siting and expense have to be considered.
^ What is the point after a ride though - you can't just jump in filthy, you have to wash, then get in the hot tub.
Think of your carbon footprint.
Tubs are easy fodder for forum jokes but are one of the great relaxers after a ride.
I'll stick with the pub.
I'll stick with the pub.
You've dropped your towel.
Anyone else not feeling at all tempted by hot tubs?
A mate's got one. He loves it, despite never [i]'christening'[/i] it*.
*He's pretty fastidious about the cleanliness side of things.
Seems a bit of a waste to not 'christen' it...
Surely that's the point of getting an outdoor sex cauldron
I don't mind dropping you an email with some tips to keep it right, let me know.
That'd be great, thanks. I believe we can do messages on here these days?
The ph is now 7.2, bromine level is ok, the odd smell has lessened, but it's still cloudy. Water here is very hard, so some stuff was put in at the beginning to sort that and it reads ok.
T'other half didn't realise how lovely they are to sit in until we spent my birthday weekend [url= http://www.package-choice.co.uk/holiday-cottages/raf-wainfleet-friskney-lincolnshire ]here[/url], and it has a hot tub.
What is the point after a ride though - you can't just jump in filthy, you have to wash, then get in the hot tub.Think of your carbon footprint ?
I have a shower first.
Carbon footprint? I bet my overall numbers are less than the average family.
Not for everyone.
The neighbours kids bought an inflatable one and would party until 1.00am in it. We got tired of it and hoiked a bucket of crayfish over the fence into it.
Much half naked teen girl running action.
Photos please.
You'll all be pleased to here that it's almost clear now, and was very pleasant sitting in it in the lovely sunshine this afternoon. 😀
You've dropped your towel.
A man always needs to know where his towel is!
Photos please.
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Just popping in to see if anyone has made the Hot Tub Grime Machine pun yet?
Just popping in to see if anyone has made the Hot Tub Grime Machine pun yet?
No sign yet. Personally I'm waiting for the 'Seems a bit shellfish' in response to Eddiebaby's post.
Hmm, our big puppy has now learnt to climb on the step and put her paws on the top edge - it's a bit slippery, she may just fall in one day, and have to learn to swim.
Tried sending this via the shitty message thing but no joy so just posted it up instead.
Hey, sorry for the delay in
responding from the earlier post.
So I bought my tub off a very intelligent geezer who gave us a 1hr chem lesson with follow up prior to us even switching them on. He really does know his stuff regarding water quality and has helped me loads since.
Basics are as I said in the post, always always treat after use, so easy to have a few cheeky beers and head off to bed without treating the tub.
So the regime I've got in place is bromine granular, much better than chlorine as it's far kinder on the skin but it isn't as potent chem wise. Everyday a good teaspoon of bromine goes in, (but still keep a check) if you're going away double up to cover it but dint go mad as it causes damage. If we use the tub we obviously up it depending on how many and how long, clearly we are a dirty bunch and one good tablespoon isn't aleays enough after use. It's a big balancing act to be fair.
Ph is very important, too acid and it rots the seals very quickly, which your mate at the tub shop will happily replace at £££.
So keep a close eye on It, depending on water and the people using it it can vary massively, to this day I've never put any ph - in my tub always ph + as it runs acidic. As for shocking, don't use any chlorine based shock, it ****s up the ph and sends the chlorine levels stupid, I use relax energize shock treatment. It's oxygen based like your ozonator if theres one fitted, you can buy 300g swimming pool bags which you then decant 10 times in to 30 g doses, far cheaper that way if you can be arsed but 30g sachets can be bought separately, use one of these every fortnight or after a heavy dogging session, this will clarify the water loads. Then if you can be arsed there s a magic liquid called flocculant, its like a clarifier and binds all the minute particles (yes there may even be some poo) together which will then stick in the filter it's great stuff but not really needed if you look after in the first instance. One last tip is remove and wash your filter regularly, that's the bit that does all the hard work. Hope some of that helps and enjoy the bubbles no matter what the naysayers have to be ever so secretly jealous about