FILLING AND DRAINING YOUR HOT TUB THE LAID-BACK WAY

Imagine a hard day at work—aching back, sore muscles, stressed-out feeling—and finding a hot tub filled with wonderfully warm water, a soothing back rub and body massage. Instant stress relief, instant relaxation! Well, that’s what you would usually get when you have your own hot tub spa at home. Gone are the days of coming home tired and aching, too tired to actually fall into a good night’s sleep.

You can have your very own spa in the comforts of your own home and you do not have to travel all the way to the spa, especially not on a busy schedule, and you do not have to pay for over-expensive spa services which can add up to hundreds, even thousands of dollars in time. You can have all the relaxation you need at home, anytime you want and as much as you need. Now, installing a hot tub at home can be quite a task, but it’s not all that difficult. Most people prefer to hire an electrician to wire the tubs or a plumber to do the job for them. This is a good way to ensure that your hot tub is installed well and properly at home. But you may also do so yourself and find it surprisingly easier than you have thought.

One of the most perplexing parts of having a hot tub is the plumbing. Most people think that hot tubs should be hard-plumbed into your home plumbing system and requires the help of a professional plumber. Yes, this may be ideal so that you find it easier to use your hot tub as it is pre-installed and hooked-up to the system.
But you may also do it the quicker and cheaper way, if you do not wish to hire a plumber. Because a hot tub is normally placed outdoor, such as in the backyard, you can use a garden hose to do the filling-up and draining jobs for you. Just hook-up your garden hose to a faucet or water source and place it into your empty hot tub, preferably on the filter area and let the water run. Fill the hot tub until the pre-indicated fill line on the inner walls. It is important that you fill it up to the fill line because too much will let the water overflow and too little will get air into the hot tub’s jets once you run them causing them to function abnormally.
When draining the hot tub, you may hook your trusty garden hose on the hot tub drain hose, conveniently located on the lower back portion of most hot tubs and drain them. This usually takes about an hour to an hour and a half to drain completely. But you may also use a drain pump which you can buy from local hardware of hot tubs retailer stores. You place this on the floor of a full tub and run the pump to pump water out. This method is quicker as it takes only around 45 minutes or so. Whichever way you choose, plumbing for your hot tub is not as hard as you think; you can even do it yourself.