Is your spa cover keeping you out of your spa?  If you have had your hot tub for a while you probably have gone through a few Spa Covers. Before you buy your next one maybe it would be a good idea to figure out why they keep having a problem.

When you went in and told the salesman that your cover got heavy. More than likely he told you that now they have developed a better foam cover. One wrapped, glued, dipped, sealed in multiple layers of special stuff. But  that one got heavy eventually.

The next logical step was to buy a cover lifter.  You bought another cover and started using the cover lifter.  Unfortunately every foam spa cover will always eventually become moisture saturated and heavy. Regardless of what wrapping is around the foam it is doomed to get heavy because when the warm spa water turns to steam it gets into the crevices in the foam, cools and condenses back into water.  Once enough water gets into the foam not even a cover lifter will help you get it off or back onto your spa.

Even if it were possible to keep the foam from saturating with water no rigid cover is ever going to be in contact with the water that it is supposed to keep warm. Every spa cover that uses foam is constantly losing heat between the bottom of the cover and the spa water surface.

But the sad fact is that with a foam cover that slowly gets heavy hot tub use slowly goes down. Generally speaking the foam fails slowly so you don’t notice it. If you use your spa every day, you do not notice the slight difference. It just becomes a little more work. So you just put up with it. Eventually your brain registers the amount of effort required and the thought of wrestling that cover off the spa becomes less about how good the spa feels and more about the effort required.

That is a tragedy considering how much you looked forward to it when you first got your spa. It is also unfortunate considering how much you spend to heat the water that you are less willing to get into. It is a shame considering how much you paid a lot of money to get that spa in the first place.

Did you know that the more time you spend in your spa the less sleep your body requires? If you got your spa for therapeutic purposes how often do you think you can afford to go without that therapy before you start to suffer?  Are you willing to loose all that just for the sake of a few inches of foam?  If you have started stacking stuff on top of your spa you are not using it enough.  Seems like an expensive place to pile your stuff but people do.

Before you just buy another foam filled spa cover that you know is just going to end up the same as the one you have now can I suggest an alternative?  Shop online for a different type of cover. Look for a spa cover  that does not use foam so it will not get heavy. If you do, you can enjoy your spa for years to come.

Find review of a different Spa Cover here.