Brown, Black And Green Flakes

Posted by wfleonard in The Sand and the Foam Blog

Most people find this website when their jetted tub starts spitting out some black or brown flakes from the jets.

Unfortunately the jetted tub industry keeps it a closed secret and recommends that you just sanitize the jetted tub pipes with bleach every so often. Then after a period of time, two or three years later, little black flakes start spewing out of your jetted tub jets while you are bathing … relaxing and enjoying a self satisfying moment.

I am sometimes anti bleach only because it does not do anything else but sanitize, which is fantastic in getting rid of harmful bacteria and other unwanted unattached bio film. When do you ever notice that your sink drainage has a problem? When the water will not go down fast enough? When the dirt you are washing off stays in the sink? The same type of issues occur in the jetted tub pipes … you don’t notice anything unnerving until the flakes trickle out … one by one.

When you start to use the Ahh-Some Jetted Tub Bio Cleaner in your jetted tub, it starts working on a really neglected (not your fault) dirty and gunky jetted tub piping system. There is an average of 25 feet of piping wrapped around your jetted tub, about 1 inch thick. Our Ahh-Some Bio Cleaner starts working right away when you add it to the water and start the jets running. The bio cleaner scrapes the bio-film and gunk off the walls of the pipes, the 25+ feet of pipe. The pipes do not become clean all at once like a magic potion, the bio cleaner continues to work at the bio film and gunk while you sleep. The good news is, like bleach (chlorine), the Ahh-Some Bio Cleaner has destroyed the bacteria and made your tub safe to bath in.

As time goes on, the amount of gunk and bio film, the black and brown flakes that spew out every time you run the jets will decrease. These gram negative bacteria particles are dead scales that used to adhere onto the walls of the jetted tub piping and are now being freed up by the bio cleaner. You continue to add the bio cleaner and pray that this will be the last cleaning that is needed and that all the black and brown flakes are gone … It will happen, I can attest and promise you this inherent fact.

Soon you will be in this jetted tub cleaning frenzy, there are no more black and brown flakes but every time you clean it with the bio cleaner, a green algae and sticky gunk are present on the sides of the “ring around the tub”. Well you have to admit, the pipes are clean. Now the gunk and green algae are just the remnants of the weeks bathing grime, dirt, oils and stuff that grows in dark wet places (algae). If you now notice, you do not see any green flakes or dirty bio film while you are taking a bath or jetted bath, that is because the water is just passing over the bio film and algae delivering fresh water. At the end of the week, you do your weekly cleaning with the bio cleaner and then … wow, the pipes are getting clean again and spewing out what was trying to grow during that week.

I guess its all in a mindset, but first things first. You need to be patient in how long it takes to clean the initial dirty 25+ feet of piping in jetted tubs. It may happen with the initial cleaning or it may take a week. Not everyone’s water supply is alike. Try the 24 hour cleaning process that I send with every order, it only takes one teaspoon.

I am more than available to listen and try to help all of you with the toughest jetted tub cleaning projects. Just give us a try, 100% money back guarantee, and support that you don’t get from too many companies today.