How’s your water?
No one wants to soak in dirty water. You don’t have to be a chemist to balance your hot tub.
No more trips to the pool store. No more guessing at doses. No more waiting for the water to clear. No more paying to fix problems. Balance before it drifts, schedule your own maintenance, and diagnose problems without the chemistry degree.
Free to use, and it works for any hot tub.
Tell us about your tub
Every tub material has sanitizer it suits and sanitizer it doesn’t. Acrylic tolerates most things, but the heater element doesn’t. Cedar’s steel bands don’t like chlorine either.
An aluminum interior runs on bromine, at 2 to 3 ppm, and not above 3. Chlorine, salt systems and copper or silver products aren’t compatible with it.
Enter today’s test
How to read a test strip
Always follow the timing and dipping instructions supplied with your test strips. Manufacturers specify different immersion times and reading windows, and the instructions on your bottle are the ones that apply.
Whichever strips you use, these help:
- Test in still water. Below the surface, away from a running jet.
- Hold it level, pads up. Water running from one pad into another gives a false reading.
- Compare under good, neutral light. Daylight is best. Not a porch light, not deep shade. Color judgment is where most bad readings come from.
- Match to the nearest block, and round toward the middle. If it sits between two, take the one closer to the target rather than the extreme.
- Look after the strips. Keep the lid shut, keep them dry, never touch the pads, and replace them by the expiry on the bottle.
If a reading surprises you, test again before you treat anything. A second strip costs nothing.
Leave a row blank if your strip doesn’t test for it.
What’s happening?
Pick the closest description.
Leave any row blank if your strip doesn’t test for it.
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Build my routine
Four questions, then a schedule you can keep on your phone.
Your water care routine
One tap and your phone carries the schedule. Every reminder links back here.
My water
It teaches, schedules and solves
And no dosing you didn’t need. Balanced water uses less.
Balance first, treatment second
Most hot tub advice starts with what to add. We think that’s the wrong end of the problem.
When water falls out of balance, sanitizer may work less effectively and problems like cloudiness, scale and uncomfortable water become more likely. Reach for more product and you treat the symptom while the cause carries on.
Start clean. Balance well. Treat only what you need.
Understand your water
Straight answers
A simpler approach to water care
Developed to make caring for your hot tub simpler, more considered, and easier to understand.
- The Purifier · a hose-mounted filter, so every fill starts clean
Hold the water where it should sit.
- The Balancer: pH
- The Balancer: Calcium
Treat only what needs treating.
- The Stabilizer · a monthly plant-derived enzyme treatment
- The Filter Cleanser and Filter Booster · for tubs with filtration
- The Tub Cleanser · for the seasonal drain, clean and refill
- The (Aroma) Therapist · a eucalyptus ritual for actually getting in
Keep it all in one place
Your test history, maintenance dates and upcoming care schedule, ready the next time you visit.
Bromine and test strips are intentionally sourced separately. Good Clean Living doesn’t replace proper sanitation; it helps you create the balanced water conditions that make ongoing care simpler.