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.