Wetlook World Forum

"I didn't clean the hot tub basket out for about 1 month. The pump motor burned up and warped the pipes. I opened the pump pot, took out the basket, and it was impacted with cotton.

About 4 hours of work and $450 later, I told the guards to never allow anyone in the pool or hot tub with a cotton shirt or shorts. I now clean out the pump basket every week."

Since I've always been a waterlover, I've now owned three different homes with in-ground pools in the back yard.  My weekly routine includes emptying the skimmer baskets (large debris like leaves accumulates here), cleaning the pump filter basked (debris which was small enough to get through the skimmer baskets collects in the smaller mesh here) and backwashing the main filter (where the smallest particles accumulate and are filtered.)  That routine takes about 15 minutes, max.  Add a little more effort to check the chlorine and alkalinity levels with the test kit and add the necessary chlorine/chemicals, and its probably up to half an hour for the process, absolute max.  A YMCA employee who is responsible for the public pool & hot tub there, and admits to not cleaning out the hot tub filtration system for a month needs to be fired, pure and simple!

My wife enjoys wetlook fun as much as I do, and we're in our pool often during the warmer months, and in the (attached) hot tub during the colder part of the year.  Admittedly our tastes for clothes runs more to silks & satins for for her than cotton, but most of my dress slacks are wool-blend and my dress shirts are mostly cotton.  And we usually have a few parties each year where LOTS of people end up in the pool fully dressed.  Have never had a problem at all (and haven't really had much issue with the chlorine fading clothes either, with a few exceptions on occasion.)  The guy who wrote that little article is simply a lazy employee who'd rather restrict the customers than do his job!