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It is important to always keep your hot tubs as well as its filters immaculately clean. This is because the filter in the hot tub traps all sorts of debris, contaminants, metals and dirt that is brought about by the hot water. It is the filters’ job to ensure that the water in your hot tubs will remain sanitary and clear, thus making the hot tubs work more efficiently. Continued use of hot tubs that has clogged filters on them can cause unfiltered debris to damage the tub’s circulation pump as well as having the possibility that contaminants may render your bathing time dangerous. So when should you check and clean the filters on your hot tub? For people with hot tubs or portable hot tub, the industry standard for cleaning filters require that hot tub filters should be rinsed once every month and cleaned with a filter cleaning solution every four months. However, every hot tub owner uses their tub quite differently from other owners since how much debris a filter collects, and how quickly it collects debris differs from one owner to another, thus differing in the need and frequency of filter cleaning or maintenance. There are actually two ways that you can clean your hot tub filters: the first method is by spray cleaning, where a spray nozzle is used to spray filter cleaner on the filter’s individual pleats and letting the cleaning solution sit for fifteen minutes; and then there is the soaking method where a bucket of water and filter cleaning solution is mixed and the filter is soaked for an hour. There are a few tips that you also need to keep in mind to ensure proper maintenance of your hot tub and your hot tub’s filter. The first tip is to always keep your hot tubs covered when you are not using it and make sure that you as well as everybody else who would be using the tub rinses off before they bathe in it; this will lessen the amount of debris that goes into the tub, the filter and will help a lot in keeping the tub working efficiently. If you need to purchase a filter, take the time to make sure that you are buying the right filter for your tub’s model; do remember that there are several kinds and models of filters that are available so you need to make sure that you buy one that will fit I the filter compartment of your tub and that it has the appropriate square foot capacity that matches perfectly with the amount of water that flows in your hot tub.