How Do You Maintain Wood Barrel Hot Tub?

Owning a hot tub, be it’s an indoor or outdoor, requires maintenance consistently. Owning traditional hot tubs like wood barrel saunas add to the maintenance hours needed for keeping the hot tub usable. However, wood barrel hot tubs feature accessories like hot tub covers, wood sauna stoves, etc. Here are a few ways to maintain a wood barrel hot tub:

Surface treatment –

Outer surface –

Wood barrel hot tubs are different from the modern plastic hot tubs as they need maintenance on the outer wood surface. The hot tub should be treated with a wood supplement oil, glaze and wax around twice in a year. However, varnishes and paint should be never used on the exterior part of the hot tub because they greatly impact on the ability of wood for swelling and holding in the water.

Inner surface –

Likewise modern hot tubs, any chemicals shouldn’t be treated in the inner surface of the hot tub. Over time, there will be a buildup of scum because of presence of chemicals in the water and they should be cleaned and taken out of the hot tub.

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