Some simple ideas that you need to cover are simply where the Hot Tub is actually going to be placed.
Usually they go outside as they are able to be used in more or less any outdoor environment.
However some people like them inside, perhaps as part of a gym or a sports complex.
One very important consideration is the access to the proposed location of the Spa.
The dimensions of the door and gate openings to your property need to be very carefully measured and compared with the size of the Hot Tub. Remember also that the Spa will usually be delivered on something like a piano trolley or a specialized spa dolly so some extra height needs to be allowed for getting in under gates with arches. Bear in mind that arches and that kind of thing can provide some height restriction that may then involve the use of a crane.
You need to carefully consider the weight of the spa when full with water and people.
Will the proposed location be it a roof terrace, deck, patio floor or the floor of an inside location be able to support the load bearing weight?
Do you have sufficient electricity supply which should be from a dedicated independent breaker in your fuse box? Is that supply within a convenient distance from the proposed location.
Is there a sufficient drain close by that will take the water when you empty the spa?
Do not place the spa on bare ground. The ground must be prepared in some way either by simple paving stones laid on a hard core base or on to a properly prepared concrete base.
Do not place your spa below overhead power, telephone or cable lines.
Make sure that you can access the Hot Tub from all four sides and leave at least 30 inches so as to give sufficient space for servicing or routine maintenance. Sometimes we are asked to service spas when they are very close to a wall and whilst you can get access to actually work on the spa it is more or less impossible.
As with most things in life it pays to buy the highest quality that one can afford from a manufacturer who has been established for many decades as opposed to perhaps, secondhand or indeed a cheap import , remember the old adage that buying cheap usually means that you end up buying twice.
This article is not meant to be exhaustive but to provide some basic ideas and points to consider. It is one in a series of articles on this topic.
Hot Tub & Spa
I know that the original Hot Tubs as we know them were made of wood and were very popular in Japan two to three hundred years ago.
Then of course there were the Greeks, Phoenicians and last but not least the Romans, all of whom thought it was a cracking idea to have warm bathing coupled with massage. Moving quickly into more modern day times I have absolutely no doubt that back in time just over half a century ago (1954) when the Jacuzzi brothers Invented a portable whirlpool pump (simply as I understand it because one of their relatives had arthritis) that they would not have had an inkling that this would go on to form such a large and developing industry.
Hot Tubs and Jacuzzi style spas are now being made in most western countries to the highest standards and the development of the product continues at a pace. Apart from the original idea of being able to combine warm water and air to create the Spa effect there is no part of a Hot Tub that has not had improvements and amendments made to technology and indeed the construction and manufacturing processes used in making a Hot Tub have gone through considerable changes.
Whole industries have been spawned producing the components and raw materials that Hot Tub manufactures require. The Acrylic Sheets that form the Shell the electronic controls the pumps and motors. Each and every Hot tub manufacturer has tried to be at the cutting edge when introducing new ideas. Some of the many other items that spring to mind where inventors and design engineers together with entrepreneurs have made considerable changes would be:- Massage jets Controllers Heaters & Insulation Lighting Systems Ideas of re-using the heat generated by the pump and motors within the Spa its self. Equipment and accessory items - even the product's description would have undergone several permutations.
The original Jacuzzi pump, when coupled with jets using an air-injection system, a mixture not unlike a kind of bubbly water-and-air was created. With the natural efluxion of time, a variety of manufacturers experimented with methods to propel the air/water stream into the spa with ever increasing digress of pressure and control. Originally Spas used a simple idea that involved something like a vacuum cleaner motor but operating as a blower in some ways not unlike to blowing air into the hot tub in exactly the same way that we as children would have used a straw to blow bubbles in to a glass of pop. Again as time passed the designers soon began thinking of things like the venturi principle, in which water is pumped through a funnel-like device to create a vacuum that pulls in air. As the water flow and pressure increases, the jet automatically draws in more air, which results in more water flow and movement not unlike the idea of an exhaust driven turbo charger in a car.
Many modern Hot Tubs have the ability to bleed air into so that one is able to inject air into the Jets thereby increasing the pressure and movement of water to create a beneficial hydro massage effect.
The race goes on as every Hot Tub manufacturer continues to add more and more features to their products.
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