The $600 Mistake Every New Hot Tub Owner Makes (And Nobody Warns You About)
My neighbor Dave bought a hot tub last spring. Beautiful thing — six-person, waterfall jets, the works. He spent three weeks researching the perfect model, reading reviews, comparing brands. Then he set it up, filled it, and never thought about it again until the first hard frost hit in November. That's when I found him in his driveway, staring at a cover that had cracked clean down the middle like a dropped dinner plate. Here's the part that stings: Dave hadn't neglected his hot tub. He'd just neglected the one part everyone treats as an afterthought — the cover. And that "afterthought" ended up costing him more in wasted electricity and a rushed replacement than the actual spa maintenance he'd been so careful about. The part nobody budgets for Most people think of a spa cover as a lid. Something that keeps leaves out. What they don't realize is that the cover is doing more structural and financial work than almost any other component of the hot ...