sharkman009

A handwritten warranty?

Your right they always have built a solid unit. They are about the only manufacturer that we regularly go out and servcie spas that are 20 years old. You just dont see that with other brands.

The 705,706 is 150 lbs less than a Hotspring Grandee. The foam on the Hotsprings adds some weight to it.

What is the largest Coleman spa?

I wouldnt own a spa without the lounge. I use that seat 90% of the time. My wife on the other hand cant stay in it and thats the case that we find with most of our customers.

They both have their advantages and disadvantages. My service guys hate moving the spas that have metal framing in them because of the weight. Try picking up an 8' cal spa with the metal reinforcement under the lip. A real backbreaker.

Congratulations!

Like you said its a good thing you wet tested them. A lot of people buy without test soaking and dont find those things out until they get it home. Thats some good info.

Ya but any stainless steel can rust too.

You may be able to clean it off with a good acid based surface cleaner. First you need to try to determine if the buildup is salt or it may be calcium and other minerals in the pool. If its calcium its not going to come off so easy. One of the problems you have to watch is if you use anything like muratic acid to clean the buildup off the tileline it will also eat the Flagstone. If the buildup doesnt come off with one of the acid based pool surface cleaners then you may be forced to do a light acid wash on the surface or there are companys that actually sandblast tilelines on pools to remove buildup. Once you get it cleaned off I would get a good sealer applied to the stone to leave a smoother surface so the minerlas cant bond as easy. And make sure you brush the tile line on your pool regularly even if you dont notice any kind of ring. I clean mile tile line bi weekly with surface cleaner especially during the summer. Good Luck.

When you get into a deeper spa you are sitting higher off the ground more like you are sitting in a chair. When you get into a shorter spa the distance is taken from the seat height to the ground so in most spas you will sit just as deep but you are foced to stretch your legs across the spa and if you have other people in the spa you are going to have your feet over eachother. And with taller people if the distance across the spa is to short for you to stretch out your right it will force you to sit up out of the water.

No he said he added insulation himself.

What did you use to insulate your spa with?

You actually have quite a few choices. You can use chlorine with an ionizer cartridge or ozonator. If you dont like the chemical smell of chlorine or bromine you can go with a biguanide sanitizer like Softsoak or Baqua spa. They basically use peroxide as your sanitizer. They are also easier on the skin if you have people that are sensitve to chemicals. Ask your dealer or find a local dealer that does water analysis and they can give you more details and options to fit your situation.

Brulan, Sodium bi-carb does not have any sanitizing ability.

Thats true knowledge can save you money but if you make a mistake and add something to your pool water that leaves you with stains in your pool that $5.00 bag of salt is not going to seem like such a good deal. A replastering job in our area is 5-$6000.00. The chemicals that you read are unnecesary all have a purpose. If you dont want those things in your water thats fine but I would not recmmend adding regular water softener salt.

I have five including myself and we are looking for more all the time. I only sell top of the line spas and as I've said before we made a choice a long time ago that we were only going to carry the best products we could find. I've been in this business a long time and over the years of doing service for a lot of different dealers one thing That I always found was the dealers that carried cheaper products didnt usually last longer than about five or six years and then they went out of business. I know this isnt always the case but it happened enough times that it stuck in my head.

There are a couple of different products out on the market if you find a Leisure time chemical dealer in your area they make a product called jet clean and there are a few other products out on the market made for flushing spa and jetted bathtub lines. Call around some of the dealers in your area and you should be able to find some. That will remove the scum from the lines.

In a spa your chlorine level should be between 1 and 3ppm. On the back of your test strips there should be a recommended level indicator right under the chlorine test. Since you have the ionizer cartridge you will probably not use as much chlorine but you need to make sure that you add your chlorine and then wait for 8 hours before you take a test. I always add a teaspoon at the end of the night for each person that was in the spa (remember the more people in the spa the more bacteria you've introduced into the water) then I go out the next morning and test before I go to work. That way if I didnt add quite enough chlorine from the night before I can suplement it and I know its ready that night when I get home. The reason you want to wait for 8 hours before you test is that it takes a while for the chlorine to kill the bacteria in the spa and if you test right after you add the chlorine you are going to get a false reading. Good Luck

I dont think I've seen one response telling anyone if they bought a costco spa there was something wrong with them. If someone asks for an opinion they are going to get it and the opinions arent always going to agree with you. As far as fear goes I've got news for you if it werent for the cheaper spas on the market my service department would be out of business.

A lot of it is going to depend on what condition that it is in but a spa that originally cost 3500.00 seven years ago I dont think I would pay more than $1000.00 in good condition. My opinion.

The small differences in gallon capacity arent enough to worry about. There are going to be some differences in chemical usage operating costs etc. If you were comparing a 250 gallon spa to a 400 gallon spa there may be a few dollars per month difference but I would be concerned with comfort, therapy, warranty. I preffer the bigger spas because I like to stretch out in my spa and I like to sit in different seats and when I sit in a small spa I feel cramped. Everyone has different wants and needs and you just need to find what you like. My opinion.

If he has no chlorine residual, the water is cloudy, his wife broke out with a rash what other evidence do you need that he has a sanitizer problem?

The dealer is right if the smell is more of a chemical smell. Its kind of hard to describe the smell of ozone it smells like after a lightning storm as lightning creates ozone. But if the smell is musty or stinks you have a bacteria problem and the fact that you have a low residual of chlorine will reaffirm this. Even with the cartridge you should always maintain a chlorine residual ALWAYS. The cartridge will make it so you dont use as much chlorine but it does not do away with chlorine. The problem that you have when the chlorine residual is gone is that any bacteria introduced into the spa can and will grow fast. The bacteria count will triple every twenty four hours so it doesnt take long for it to get out of hand.

Any reputable spa dealer should be happy to give a copy of their warranty. Its one of the first things I put in my customers hands even if they dont ask for it. The way I look at it is if they are not willing to share that with you they are either trying to hide something or a written warranty does not exsist. And yes you are right a typical answer is you'll get a copy of the warranty with your spa. My response to that would be ok you have spas sitting here on the floor why dont you pull one of the warranties out of one of these and make me a copy of it. Its very important to get a spa that has a warranty that is backed by the manufacturer not just the dealer. That way if your dealer goes out of business you have the manufacturer responsible to get you taken care of. I would stick with the major manufacturers. Beachcomber, Hot Spring, Arctic, Sundance, D1, Saratoga.