Degree Of Recline To Lounge Seat, Bubblers From Waist To Toe?

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We have purchased a "new" home (we have now been there living 2 1/2 years). It has an 8-seat PDC spa, located INdoors; it was installed new when the house was built 17 years ago. Both the spa and the room are still in very good-to-excellent condition. The room has very good natural light (a wall of windows), excellent ventilation and it has not had a moisture humidity / temperature problem. Even so, from the beginning, when we initially purchased the house, we always intended to remove the existing spa. We want to convert the room to a solarium and add an adjoining deck/patio with a new hot tub OUTdoors. We believe that the existing spa was most likely purchased as a "shell (no "cabinet"), it is a semi-sunken installation with the hot tub protruding above floor level about 16 inches. The hot tub rests on four "feet" which, in turn, sit upon four steel columns (legs), mounted into the basement floor (custom installation). All the pipes, pumps, heater etc are 100% visible / accessible from the room in the basement which has the four steel legs. On the top side there is no access to any of the workings, other than the usual filter access. The "housing" is black marble, which matches the floor of the hot tub room. It has a "deck" about 6.5" all the way around the perimeter and walls to the "skirt" which match the deck and the floor of the rom. We want a very similar installation to our new OUTdoor installation, except that the floor will be stamped concrete, and so we are not sure what to about the "housing". All spas today seem to come integrated into "cabinets", and require access to a removable panel at least on one side. We are having difficulty finding examples of semi-sunken installations which give (construction) detail on how the access to the cabinet panel(s) would be handled, and similarly how to completely "conceal" the cabinet.

We are also curious about which brands provide lounge seating similar to the PDC spa that we currently have, It seems to have a "back support" area which is very nearly horizontal (maybe 20-30 degrees of elevation). We have looked at Hot Springs, Maax and one other brand and what they call a lounge has an angle of well above 45 degrees (close to 60-70 degrees, I think; much more like vertical). Can anyone advise what brands of spas have the greatest degree of recline to the lounge seat(s)? I want it to be more like a bed (like we currently have), not like a chair with a chaise lounge flat area for "legs only". Our PDC spa also features "bubblers" which run from waist to toe, providing a stimulating experience to every part of the body from waist to knees. The spas we have seen seem to focus only on jets for calves and ankles. A good thing, I am sure, but not my preference at the expense of no bubbling or jetting between the waist and knees.

Any advice on selection of a brand of spa and/or guidance for the semi-sunken installation will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Rex, in Southern indiana