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  1. Thanks! I was looking at the maax mainly because the noise rating is 7+ db quieter than every other spa I looked at and it is super quiet, hilly neighborhood and sound can carry really strange, so wanted to get the quietest tub, but that isn't the only factor. Hot Springs is the only dealer within 30 miles and they have full foam, but they are ruled out because I have too much 2nd hand info that they abandon people after the sale. *aside* I have been doing the leg work on line and visiting dealers and everyone of them claims that their brand has the best warranty in the business. I was telling my wife about this before I took her to the hotsprings dealer (because I am leaving no stone unturned). One of the first things in his pitch was we have the best warranty in the industry. My wife almost laughed in his face! Why do sales people do this? The warranties are all online (hotsprings is average) and easily comparable. Some of the warranty is a complete joke, one company warrants their LED light bulbs for a year...Wow! Technology that is supposed to last 20-30 years. I am really reassured about the components you are using now! That is what a warranty comes down to for me - a gauge for the quality of the components used and assembled.
  2. Thanks for your responses! Is the equipment bay partitioned from the rest of the tub's floor/base (sorry not sure what's the right word) so that a leak in the equipment bay will not be absorbed by blue jean insulation that is attached to the floor bottom? I could easily have missed this as I didn't become spooked by this until later after everything rattled around in my head for awhile. Sort of for my future tub ownership awareness: Are leaks typically noticed by equipment failure, abnormal noise, or water level change? What volume of water typically leaks before noticed? Before it can be repaired? Thanks!
  3. What percent of hot tubs leak each year? Are leaks going to occur in every tub and it is just a matter of when and if you own it long enough? I have not been able to get a sense of this except that it seems like repair people are busy and leaks are one of the things they address (top thing?). Besides the obvious reasons why I am wondering is that I like the maax 480, but the blue jean insulation has me choosing another tub. I really like this insulation and used it in a room addition that had almost no plumbing anywhere and in a warm climate. But, now the tub will be in a very cold climate and if this insulation gets wet on the bottom of the tub especially, it seems to me that it will never dry out between the cold and inability to get any air flow to that part of the tub. So, this will kill the insulation value while it remained soggy, making the tub more expensive to run and need to run it more often to keep pipes from being damaged if it was in winter during a week where the high temps may be 10. I can not gauge the risk of this happening because I have no clue about frequency of tub leaks. If over a 10 yr period there is a 1% chance of developing a leak, that risk level of potentially developing into a nightmare may be one answer. However if it is 20%+ of hot tubs develop leaks over a 10 yr period, that risk level is too high, for sure, for me. I am all, but convinced that the risk is too high for my situation, but wanted to know, if anybody has stats, data, an educated guess based on something?
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