Hot Tub Covers and Care

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Hot tubs are a wonderful luxury, and they can bring a great deal of pleasure and relaxation to your family. They do require some regular maintenance to maintain good function. One of the biggest things to keep on top of is the sanitation aspect of the hot tub. Hot tubs operate in the 90-110 degree range, which is a sweet spot for microbial growth. To keep your hot tub from becoming a petri dish the best solution is a combination of a good filter and a sanitizer such as chlorine or bromine. A hot tub cover can help keep out foreign particles, but it’s hardly a barrier to your microscopic invaders, that’s what the sanitizer is for, to keep them from setting up shop in your hot tub.

A hot tub cover, while not a great barrier for microbes, does serve a very important function for any hot tub. Actually, it serves two. One is to keep the heat in the tub. The energy cost associated with keeping a hot tub is sizable, and studies have shown that simply keeping a cover on the tub while it is not in use can save 50-70 percent on heating costs. The other major advantage to keeping your tub covered is that it reduces the evaporation rate by keeping the tub in an enclosed environment. If you allow it to, your tub will boil itself away into the atmosphere over time. Between the internal temperature of the tub, and added energy from the sun, it’s easy to lose large quantities of water. Covering your tub cuts that in two ways. First, the sunlight is no longer adding energy to your tub, which reduces evaporation rate. The second thing it does is limits the atmospheric volume that your hot tub can evaporate into. If your hot tub heats up a small volume of air, it is very easy to reach one hundred percent humidity. At that point, no matter how hot your tub gets, no more water will evaporate.

That’s why an investment in proper hot tub accessories, sanitizers, and a hot tub cover are so important. Like a home or an automobile, the sticker price is the beginning of the cost of ownership. Taking proper care of your hot tub will ensure that you are able to enjoy your hot tub for years to come.

 

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