Jamie P

Looks like this would work great for me. I will ask me dealer if they have this when I finally get the tub and if not I have this site bookmarked and just order it from them. Thanks! I own this and really like. It uses strips but put the numbers up on a display. I do not know anything about this store it is just a link http://www.saveonpoolsupplies.com/shopping...p;keyword=A8070

This guy is employed as an electrician full time but does "side jobs". He works for a private comapny but makes under the table money doing this. He charges less than a contractor woould charge me since he doesn't have any overhead.

I am in the process of getting a new hot tub. Something a friend pointed out was testing the water. Is there another way of testing it besides color strips? Or if you have to use color strips how hard are they to read? I am legally color blind between green and red but can still the difference in most colors. But reading something like test strips I could see being a problem if the color difference will be really small. I am just hoping this won't be an issue

I would try craigslist. I am in the process of buying a new hottub and checked the yellow pages and called a couple places and also checked craigs list and found an electrician that gave me a great quote. He is a licensed electrician that does side work. The spa dealer should have a recomendation also. The craigslist guy was the best quote and he quoted me around $300 but that includes running the 220 line from the breaker box (which is a very short run since it's high up on my basement wall and on the same wall as my patio and to hard wire it 5 feet away

They key in situations like this is to absolutely make sure you get a spa that uses a circ pump for filtering since it makes no noise as opposed to one that filters with a 2 speed jet pump. The one you speak of has a circ pump so the spa will make no noise unless someone is using it. Thanks! Glad to know the salesman was honest:) Sounds like I shouldn't have any problems then unless I use the SPA and it makes too much noise. I can't imagine it would make any more noise than a vacuum cleaner or outside central air unit when someone is using it.

We have had a costco for almsot two years and I have been very happy with them. I bought a GPS system right after they opened and last dec it quit working. Fortunately I had the receipt and the packaging and they simply had a higher up approve the return and gave me a credit and the model was disontinued so I just bought a nicer one that was actually cheaper. I was amazed they would do that after 18 months I knew there were exceptions to the policy and thought hottubs were probably one (If you buy something like a laptop or camera there is a 90 day limit which is still generous). Here is their return policy from their site It sounds like a hot tub shoudl be covered however you would have to have the original box it came in (if it came in a box) and have it available curbside. Most people don't keep their original packaging (myself included I was just lucky with the gps that I had because other friends reported problems with them not working after 6 months). I think common sense should prevail here though. If you get the average useful life out of a product I wouldn't return it. If you buy a pair of jeans and you wear them every week and wash them every week and they last 5 years that is great That would mean 250 times of wearing them and 250 washes If they finally start to wear out, you got a good life out of them. I would never think of returning them. here is their return policy for online purchases and I think it applies to the store as well: http://www.costco.com/Service/FeaturePageL...ductNo=11204333

I made a deposit on a Caldera Kauai. I have a crack in my patio and I want it fixed before taking delivery and also have some non concrete area of my patio that can be used for planting and I want that filled in and am just having the old patio torn out and a new one poured. Seeing I live in Ohio and they require at least 72 hours of dry 45 degree plus weather it will be a good month before the work can be done. One concern I didn't think of was noise. I live in a condo and it's four connected townhouses that are two stories each. We have fenced in patios with wood privacy fences and I bought the umbrella so privacy won't be an issue. I didn't think about noise, but was telling my next door unit neighbor about my purchase today and she said she heard the things are really noisy and is concerned they will hear it. I was told if the jets aren't running they are very quiet and if they are running they make no more noise than a central air compressor (all four units have outside central air compressors and it will be near where the spa will be going). My neighbor said she heard they make a lot more noise. Should I have a concern with noise? Does anyone here live in a townhouse connected to other units and use theirs on a patio? My condo rules don't prohibit hottubs and we all have separate water meters so those won't be issues. The noise is my concern now.