Oct 15 2009

Acai Berry Weight Loss: Buy Acai Berry

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If you have been looking around for a weight loss product, I’m sure that by now you have heard of the Acai Berry. The problem is, which acai berry detox product do you choose? There are so many different products these days it is hard to know which products work and which ones are just scams. The best way to decide which product is right for your specific needs, is to visit an acai berry site that offers different reviews of several products. Many of these sites also offer a Free Trial, and if you are not completely satisfied within the specified time frame, you can return it with no extra charge. So try acai berry weight loss today!

Oct 15 2009

Acai Berry Weight Loss: Buy Acai Berry

Posted by admin in Shopping

If you have been looking around for a weight loss product, I’m sure that by now you have heard of the Acai Berry. The problem is, which acai berry detox product do you choose? There are so many different products these days it is hard to know which products work and which ones are just scams. The best way to decide which product is right for your specific needs, is to visit an acai berry site that offers different reviews of several products. Many of these sites also offer a Free Trial, and if you are not completely satisfied within the specified time frame, you can return it with no extra charge. So try acai berry weight loss today!

Oct 14 2009

Dangerous Hot Tub Covers

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How dangerous are overweight foam Hot Tub Covers? Recently a friend was
checking the chemicals in his hot tub. Rather than attempting removing the
entire hot tub cover, he decided to just lift one side enough to get at the
water long enough to get a sample. He bent over and supporting the
heavy hot tub cover with his left arm while attempting to fill a sampling
bottle with water from the hot tub to check the chemical levels.

As he leaned over further, the weight of the water logged hot tub cover
dislocated his left shoulder and allowed the cover to hit him on the
back knocking him into the hot tub. He was now face down in the water with
his legs pinned by the weight of the hot tub cover. His shoulder was
dislocated and he was
in extreme pain. He tried to move but could not budge
the weight of the waterlogged hot tub cover.

He began to choke as he swallowed water and tried to rise up but
could barely get his head out of the water. With what could have been
his last breath, he screamed for help. Fortunately he had left the door
from the house to the deck open. His daughter and her boy friend heard
the commotion and looked out to see his legs sticking out from under the hot tub
cover.

His daughter and her boy friend were able to lift the cover off of
his legs. His daughters boy friend jumped into the hot tub and pulled
him up from the water. They took him to the emergency room where they
put his shoulder back in place and treated him for shock.

My friend had owned a hot tub for 12 years and had replaced 3
conventional rigid foam core hot tub covers, each when they became too heavy and saturated to lift. Regardless of manufactures
claims, all the hot tub covers became waterlogged. He has since bought a Hot Tub
Cover that uses air chambers to insulate rather than rigid foam. He is
certain that the air filled spa cover will not try to kill him as the
other foam cover did.

Here is something you will never hear from dealers who sell foam Hot Tub Covers, every year people are injured by foam hot tub covers. Most of the
injuries have come from a gust of wind blowing the heavy foam cover
onto people as they use their spa. Sometimes people attempting to
carefully maneuver a saturated foam cover off their spa, have lost
their grip and had the hard foam cover slam down causing injury.

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission people have
even been drowned when they have become trapped under heavy foam
hot tub covers.

Maybe now is a good time to search for a better Hot Tub cover. With
the World Wide Web, you can literally have the world to shop from. Do
you really want to risk injury or death trying to use your spa?

Oct 13 2009

Heavy Hot Tub Covers

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Heavy Broken Hot Tub Covers Waste Energy. I saw this advertised on line
the other day. When I went to check out the guys website, guess what
he’s selling? Rigid foam hot tub covers that will end up heavy or broken,
usually within two years.

Instead of selling you something that won’t get heavy or broken he
keeps selling the same thing, hoping you won’t notice. If you have had
to replace a hot tub cover because it got heavy, maybe the question you
should ask before you buy the next one is, Why?

What causes the foam Hot Tub Covers to get heavy is that it traps
moisture inside. Rigid foam board is used in lots of insulation
applications. It can be used around refrigeration storage areas like in
a super market. Layers of foam board can insulate the cool storage area
while the customer area can be kept comfortably warm. But in this type
of installation the foam is not subjected to hot moist air. As long as
the foam stays dry it has a predictable insulation value. But if the
foam were to have moisture in it instead of the little air spaces it
uses to insulate, it would have no insulation value at all.

If you wanted to produce the perfect environment for a rigid foam
board to become saturated it would be to put it over a source of warm,
humid, steam. You couldn’t get water into it faster even if you tied it
to the bottom of your swimming pool. Why? Because water molecules are
bigger than steam molecules. Steam can get into smaller spaces faster
than water. And once the steam cools, it condenses back into water,
displacing air in the foam as it does.

Long before you notice the hot tub cover getting heavy, moisture has
begun to replace the air spaces in your cover. When it does, the little
insulation value that cover might have had, goes down dramatically.
From whatever it may have been when you first put it on your hot tub it has
gone down to as much insulation as a wet piece of plywood by the time
you actually notice it got heavy.

You might get fooled into thinking that it is still insulating well
because snow won’t melt off it. Unfortunately, you would be wrong. Snow
won’t melt off a frozen pond either but it doesn’t mean the ice is
insulating the water. When snow falls on a saturated foam hot tub cover, it
freezes the moisture in the cover because it is laying directly on the
cover. The water of your hot tub is never in contact with the foam since
the foam is resting way up on top of the acrylic of the hot tub, usually
about a foot above the water surface. What’s happening is the warm spa
water is evaporating into steam. That steam is rising, because that is
what heat does, until it hits the bottom of the frozen hot tub cover. Then
the steam cools and turns back into water. The water, now cooled,
falls, because that’s what cold does, back into the warm spa water,
cooling it off.

So if you wanted to invent a radiator to cool off your warm hot tub
water this would be the perfect design. Put a block of frozen foam over
the water. Load it up with snow so it will keep the spa cover frozen
and stand back and watch the power meter spin. Instead of buying
another rigid foam spa cover that will positively end up like the one
you are replacing now, shop online for one that is designed better.
Look for Hot Tub Covers that will insulate the water from the water surface, without rigid foam.

Oct 13 2009

Hot Tub Cover Impairing Your Fun?

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Are you using your hot tub as much as you used to? Is that heavy foam
cover the reason why? In Search of the Perfect Replacement Hot Tub Cover?
If you have had your hot tub for a few years you’ve probably bought a
few foam covers. You probably bought the first replacement cover from
the same place you bought your hot tub.

When you told the salesman that your hot tub cover got heavy, did he look surprised? Or did he tell you that now they had developed a better foam
hot tub cover?  One wrapped, glued, dipped, sealed in multiple layers of special
stuff. So you bought one. But even that hot tub cover got heavy eventually.

One friend of mine just thought he was getting weaker, until he went
to the hot tub dealer to get some chemicals.  While he was waiting he thought he would check out the latest spa.  Since it had a cover on it he would have to lift the cover off.

Using only as much
effort to lift the new cover as he did his own at home, he nearly threw
the cover through the front window of the store. It was then that he
realized his cover was getting heavy. Like him you have most likely
figured out that rigid foam hot tub covers are flawed technology.

All rigid foam Hot Tub Covers will eventually become moisture
saturated, heavy, and might even break or blow away. Regardless of what
wrapping is around the foam it is doomed to get heavy.

Even if it were possible to keep the foam from saturating with water
no rigid cover is ever going to be in contact with the water that it is
supposed to keep warm. Every rigid foam hot tub cover is constantly losing
heat between the bottom of the cover and the water surface. As the
spa water produces steam that steam hits the bottom of the cooler rigid
foam hot tub cover, condenses and falls back into the spa actually cooling
the water.

But the real point is that with a foam hot tub cover that slowly gets heavy
we slowly stop using our hot tubs. Generally speaking the foam fails slowly
so you don’t notice it. If you use your hot tub every day, an ounce
different here and there does not get noticed. It just becomes a little
more work. So you just put up with it. But after while you get home
from work and the thought of wrestling that hot tub cover off the spa just
becomes less important.

Considering how much you looked forward to it when
you first got your hot tub, this is a real shame. It is also a shame considering how much you
spend to heat the water that you are less willing to get into. It is a
shame considering how much you paid of your hard earned money to get
that hot tub in the first place. Did you know that the more time you spend
in your hot tub, the less sleep your body requires? If you got your hot tub for
therapeutic purposes how often do you think you can afford to go
without that therapy before you start to suffer?

Are you willing to loose all that just for the sake of a few inches
of foam? I see it every day. People with hot tubs in their back yard, but
instead of using their hot tub they pile stuff on it. It might be the
picnic table they moved just to make it easier to mow. Maybe it is toys
the kids left out or the barbecue. Seems like an expensive place to
pile your stuff but people do.

I propose you get back to enjoying your hot tub. Instead of replacing
your heavy saturated foam hot tub cover with another one that is just going to end up the
same way, check out a different type of cover. For Hot Tub Covers that won’t get heavy visit SpaCap.com.  Get yourself back into hot water and enjoy that hot tub for years to come.