How Much Abuse Can Your Hot Tub Cover Take?
We got a humorous phone call the other day from a customer that said her spa cover had pulled out the fasteners. She went on to explain that snow had caused the cover to pull away from the deck.
After about thirty years of building Custom Replacement Hot Tub Covers this strikes me funny. Why? Well because the bottom of our cover is supported by the water in the hot tub. That means that no amount of snow is going to crush it because it isn’t trying to make a bridge over your spa.
Plus when snow falls, even a lot of snow, it falls in a uniform manner, meaning it won’t just pile up on one side of your hot tub and not the other. So even if you get ten feet of snow it should evenly land on the entire hot tub cover and not cause a problem.
So, in order for our customer to have a problem as she described, an avalanche of snow would have had to cascade down onto her cover. Which of course once we started talking was exactly what had happened. Several feet of heavy wet snow had slid off the roof of her house and landed on her spa cover.
Now, if a tree falls on your hot tub, is it damage that the spa manufacturer should cover? If an avalanche pounds down on your spa cover is that something that the manufacturer is responsible for?
Every winter we do a brisk business replacing rigid foam spa covers that have been crushed by the weight of snow or skewered by falling ice. Since our covers are air filled rather than foam filled, they can handle this kind of abuse much better than any foam filled spa cover ever could.
Even so, there are limitations to the warranty. Fortunately for our customer all it will take is replacing a couple grommets in the cover. If it had been a rigid foam cover it would be crushed beyond repair.
Just something to think about before you replace another hot tub cover that has been damaged by snow or ice. Check out the only true advancement in Hot Tub Covers in the last thirty years at www.SpaCap.com.