What to look for when buying a new hot tub cover

You ought to keep two things in mind when looking for a new hot tub cover: the location and your weather. If you keep your spa hot year round, you will want a spa cover that will minimize your heating bills, especially if you live in a chilly climate. Think about the amounts of sun, cold, rain, wet snow and snowfall your hot tub cover will receive. Each of these parameters is a factor in deciding on suitable hot tub covers, to acquire the very best value for your dollar and to reduce your monthly operating expense.

Perhaps the most significant misconception is that the foam core denseness is an essential piece of the cover for keeping your heating bills low. Actually, this is simply not completely accurate. For effective insulation, you should look for the thickest possible foam cover. This is due to the way the insulation value, also known as the "R-value" is calculated. This value can be found if you take the insulating value of the foam and multiplying it by the cover's thickness. The R-value per dollar is greater for a thicker cover than a cover with more dense foam.

People often decide to upgrade their cover after it gets progressively heavy and waterlogged, making for a hassle to even get into the tub. In the industry, the water logging protection component of the cover is known as the vapor barrier. It's often called the vapor barrier simply because heavy steam from the warm water is what will eventually pass through the cover, which makes it heavy. Although many people think it's designed to keep rain and snow out of the cover, this is not true.

Visualize the tub as a pot of boiling and the cover as the lid over it. Condensation that is found around the lid is exactly what the vapor seal keeps outside the cover. However, it's also the reason most covers will fail. Hot tubs and spas are full of chemicals which will eventually weaken any cover's material. Many factors contribute to this rot such as using an ozonater.

Most hot tub cover manufacturers fight this by taking the simple step of making their vapor barriers thicker. The idea is the thicker the material, the more time it will require to rot through it. This is only one half of the tale. There is a manufacturer that is going for a different approach and using a totally innovative material, designed particularly to retard this corrosion. Until you know precisely which barrier to use, you can't properly go by the vapor barrier's thickness. You should ask if the vapor barrier was designed to combat the normal chemical decay.

These are just a few of the most important considerations when looking for a new hot tub cover. We offer the best quality covers, using the latest materials and options to make sure your new purchase lasts a long time. At Hot Tub Cover Depot we strive to offer the best looking and functioning hot tub covers.