Protecting your Hot Tub Covers
The hot tub covers are essential appliance to protect your hot tub from dust, debris, and even from your neighbor accidentally taking a dip. This is also measures to keep the water in the hot tub clean and ready to be used. However, even if it’s a protective cover, it still gets dirty and needs to be cleaned. Here are some tips in protecting your hot tub cover.
Clean your hot tub cover!
A clean cover will keep a clean tub. Get a garden hose and spray the water on the surface of the cover. Do so until the debris and the dirt come off. Get a soft brush and a large sponge to scrub on the spa cover. Do it with a mixture of dishwashing liquid and water. The vinyl top should be scrubbed in a circular motion and don’t let it dry with the soap! Rinse it well with water. As for the underside of the cover, wash it with water and dry with a rag.
Never, let the soap get into your hot tub! It will be a lot of trouble if it happens since you have to get it out of the tub.
Remedies for unwanted dirt
Anything can get on your hot tub cover such as tree sap, paint, grease, or grime, especially when your hot tub is under a tree or in your backyard. Tree sap can be annoyingly hard to get off, but a little bit of lighter fluid will do the trick. Don’t use too much because it will damage the vinyl cover. Right after the application of the fluid, apply your preferred hot tub cover conditioner or soap.
As for paint - sorry, but there’s no way to get it off. Once it dries, it remains there forever. Yes, there are solvents used to remove paint, but it’s a different story once you apply it on the spa vinyl cover. Solvents used to remove paint can damage your vinyl cover permanently.
Damages, blisters and whatnot
Sometimes fading color blisters, or puddles show up on your hot tub cover. When the bottom vinyl of the hot tub cover sags like blisters, it means the water chemistry of your tub water is off. Improper water chemistry may manifest on your spa cover by color change, its being easily ripped, or falling into the water. The best remedy for this is to replace your hot tub cover.
These are just some tips on how to protect your hot tub cover. Treat your hot tub covers with care to make it last for a long time. It saves money and it saves a heck of a lot of worry.
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