A hot tub is an investment in a new life style filled with peace relaxation and pleasant memories
Whether it is that magic respite that we all seek in a mind calming way at the end of a workday or may be spending quality time with your family friends and loved ones. The quality of your life will increase considerably improving your health and happiness from the very many therapeutic benefits from a massage of warm jetted water. You cannot beat the discovery for ones own self , to the very many benefits of Hot Tub ownership and the unique lifestyle that goes with them.
Just consider how you would feel with your whole body and soul immersed in warm bubbling water this would be you very own oasis. The buoyancy effect in a way helps to lift the weight of the world from your shoulders as the stress of the day drops away.
Not only does this greatlly help you physically but it also helps your mind to be at peace and find that respite it so richly deserves. Your blood vessels open gradually to increase the flow of rich oxygen and essential nutrients to those tired aching joints and muscles. You are totally relaxed and nothing can compare with te tranquility you will feel from being in your own cocoon.
A hot tub brings family and friends together and frantic day to day activities can be put on hold and quality family time can begin. No matter what the age of your children or your family you owe it to them to provide a secure and welcoming gathering place.
Undoubtedly your home is your favourite place to relax, unwind, entertain family and friends ? a hot tub gives you many reasons for staying at home.
Whether it's a special occasion with many friends or just an evening with friends or just the two of you on a star filled night a hot tub will provide the ambiance for any occasion. So just stay at home and create a whole new life style.
It is a fact that more and more home owners are improving their gardens and terrace areas and using this increased living space to spend quality time at home.
Jets - It is nice to have a wide range of different jets in a hot Tub so that one may choose the position that suits you at the time. Sometimes you want more pressure in different areas of the body and only by having sufficient jets can this be achieved.
A water fall is very nice and it is of course extremely pleasant to hear running water but that said it does nothing for your massage or hydrotherapy. Indeed ithe truth of this hyperbole is ithat it just uses up your power so water features are in many ways just mere selling gimmicks. This is particularly true when they have two or three water features then as your electricity bill is going up your massage effect is going down indeed its much reduced as its power is being taken away from the main jets to run these features.
Heaters - I once heard it said that because a Spa has a smaller heater it must be a better one than one which has a bigger and thereby more expensive heater. Sometimes they claim better insulation but in reality it is obvious that a smaller heater is less efficient as it takes longer and longer to heat up. It is similar to a small engined car on the motorway it can get to 70mph but a bigger engine takes it all in its stride with plenty in reserve. It's a fact that a bigger engined and well designed car can often be more economical at a high cruising speed that a smaller one. Just as a bigger heater heats up much more quickly and only needs to gently top up the heat ever so often. The only person who gains with a smaller heater is the manufacturer who makes more money as a smaller heater costs less.
The electricity draw is a very important point and can the tub be programmed, for example, so as to only draw 16 Amp?
With the above goes the question of the cost of running the Hot Tub which is not just the cost of electricity but also the costs of filters and chemicals etc. Does the Spa or Hot Tub have an air system where air can be diverted into the water jets via the venturi effect and thereby increasing the pressure of the water jets.
In addition does it also have its own independent air blower in addition to the above?
Does the Hot Tub have an aromatherapy system and is it straight forward to use.
The composition and construction of the shell has to be taken into account. Has a proper acrylic been used together with the required strengthening in production? The weight and thickness of the acrylic needs to be carefully considered and assessed as must the quality of production. How experienced is the manufacturer and do the designs allow for the inherent stress and strains that any Hot Tub filled with water together with say four adults will encounter. If a Hot Tub Jacuzzi style Spa, is not formed correctly then in time it may develop stress cracks and possibly blistering or deep cracking if not made correctly.
Most American or shall I say Western Hot Tub manufacturers provide a “Life Time" guarantee and whilst this is usually interpreted as 10 years there are many cheap imports where the guarantee is only 5 years. There lies a clue in the build quality when the manufacturer gives only a 5 year guarantee!!
Does the Hot Tub Jacuzzi style spa that you are considering have Ozone as standard? Ozone can substantially reduce the chemical usage by a very large degree some times by as much as 85%.
What is Ozone?
Ozone is something I am sure many of us have heard of but do not really know what it is.
Ozone is a form of “active oxygen" and is nature's very own special molecule and interestingly enough the composition of one ozone molecule contains three oxygen atoms.
Ozone is created in nature automatically by the simple process of mixing together, oxygen from the air with ultraviolet rays from the sun or by the very tremendous power generated by an electrical discharge during a lightning storm.
Ozone is by its very nature a natural purifier which creates no harmful chemical by-products during this natural purification process. One of the beneficial effects of Ozone is the clean, fresh smell or scents which most people sense or smell after a rainstorm often thought as negative Ions.
The same effect is felt near fast flowing streams in mountain areas and that old saying springs to mind as "fresh as a mountain stream". Ozone is the most powerful oxidizer that can be safely used in a swimming pool or Hot Tub – Jacuzzi Style spa. Ozone is a great alternative water purifier to traditional pool/spa chemicals such as chlorine and bromine.
What Does Ozone Do?
Ozone is an unstable compound generated by the exposure of oxygen molecules to a high energy electrical discharge. The weak bond holding ozone's third oxygen atom is what causes the molecule to be unstable and thus, very effective. An oxidation reaction occurs upon any collision between a molecule of ozone and a molecule of an oxidizable substance (i.e. bacteria, fungi (mold & yeast), viruses, forms of iron & manganese). The weak bond splits off leaving oxygen as a by-product. During an oxidation reaction, organic molecules are changed and dissolved metals are made no longer soluble. It is very interesting that these processes were used back in the days of old on North American wagon trains where silver and copper coins were tossed into the drinking water barrels to help purify the water. Even Lord Nelsons British ships of the line also put coins into water barrels to keep drinking water fresh. There is a theory that this fresh water greatly contributed to the success at the Battle of Trafalgar where both the French and Spanish naval fleets were well and truly trounced.
Also one will need to know what is included with the Hot Tub Jacuzzi Spa as standard.
Obviously a Hot Tub has to have a cover but I am not surprised time and time again to see that a cover is an extra. Usually these are with the products that are cheap imports.
Quite often some of these cheap imports include DVD screens and stereos and more often than not they fail very quickly. When using your own Hot Tub Jacuzzi style spa the last thing you will want to do is be watching a DVD. In fact an importer of this kind of product told me that in view of the substantial failures he had on the DVD he was pleading with the Chinese manufacturer to drop them.
Usually the Jets fail in Chinese Hot Tubs usually just outside the guarantee period. Quite simply they do not have the experience required to produce Jets that will take the teat of time.
So I would simply summarize by saying that you should look for long established Western manufacturers who have been making this kind of luxury product some since 1965 or in excess of 40 years and there you will find the best value. Rather than a cheap import from China.
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