Safety guide

The Consumer Product Safety Commission of US estimates that 300 children unde r the age of 5 drown in swimming pools each year in US. An additional 5000 - 6000 children are injured severely enough to need medical treatment.

There are many safety tips that parents with spas can follow to help reduce the risk of drowning or injury.And the following tips relate to specific components used in spas, and hot tubs. View detailed safety guide here >>>

Spa in winter

A good number of people keep their hot tubs up and operational the year around. Indeed, many people maintain that there is nothing nicer than hopping into a hot tub on a cold winter day to enjoy the warm and relaxing environment a spa has to offer during the coldest days of the year.
If you do elect to keep your hot tub operating year round, and if your hot tub is located out of doors, there are a number of tips and pointers that you need to bear in mind. Here, in this article, we address a few of these important tips and pointers.

First of all, the costs associated with keeping your hot tub operational year round will increase markedly in the winter months if you live in a colder climate. In the United Kingdom generally, for example, you will not a marked increase in the costs associated with operating a hot tub throughout the winter months.

Obviously, it is more difficult to keep a hot tub -- hot -- in winter months. You will use far more energy keeping the jot tub up to temperature in the winter months. However, you can work to reduce these costs by fully insulating the hot tub. A person can add a rich layer of insulation around the hot tub and finish the work off by installing paneling of some nice nature around the hot tub itself. This will dramatically lower the costs associated with operating the hot tub year around, but particularly in the winter months.

It is also important to make very certain that the hot tub remains covered -- again, with an insulated cover -- art all times when it is not in use. (Take care to make certain that the cover you use is child proof. There have been tragic incidents when a cover is removed partially by a child after which the child crawls into the hot tub. The cover then shuts up over the child while he or she is inside hot tub.)

If you actually not going to be using the hot tub for a matter of several days or so, turn down the heating unit temperature. This practice should not be undertaken if you will be using the hot tub on an at least every other day basis. But, if more time is going to elapse, you will save on energy costs by turning down the temperature and then reheating prior to the time that you will be using the hot tub again.