Do You Have a Safety Hazard for Your Heavy Hot Tub?

Everyone that has ever used a hot tub has probably had some experience withAccustomed rigid foam filled “hard covers” that conveniently come with your spa when you purchase it. It’s great right? It does the job. It sits on your spa, and keeps all the trash debris out of your hot tub water. Many hot tub owners may never learn there are other types of Hot Tub Covers out there. Anyone that has ever owned one knows that all foam covers eventually become HEAVY foam covers.

Can an overweight Hot Tub Cover be a danger to you and your family? Of course it can, the question however that plagues you when thinking about your spa in relation to your Spa Cover is how that danger might affect you, your family members, and especially young children.

Recently, a friend was checking the chemicals in his spa and rather than attempting to abolish the entire hot tub cover, he decided to just lift one side enough to get at the water long enough to get a fragment. While bending over the spa water, the weight of the water logged hot tub cover slammed down onto his shoulders, and pinned him with his head under water in his hot tub. Trapped, face down in the spa he tried to move the cover off of his body, however the weight of the saturated hot tub cover combined with his current position made this task impossible and he was unable to shift the waterlogged cover.

Auspiciously, for him, his daughter and her boy friend were in the house and heard the commotion coming from outside. When they went outside to see what was wrong, they saw that he was completely trapped underneath the Hot Tub Cover, face down in the water. Only their fast reaction saved his life.

Later at the emergency room where doctors told him that the weight of the cover slamming down had dislocated his left shoulder. Just a little longer could have resulted in his death.

My friend had owned a hot tub for 12 years and had replaced 3 conventional rigid foam core Hot Tub Covers. While the life on the foam covers had averaged from 2 to 4 years, regardless of manufactures claims, all the covers became waterlogged.

After his near death experience, he searched on line for a different kind of Hot tub cover. You can see for yourself what he found at www.SpaCap.com. This new totally different design type of Replacement Hot Tub Covers will never be a hazard to his safety.

In the United States there have been over 150 hot tub affair related injuries and deaths over the last two decades.

Another friend of mine and her husband were in their hot tub, with their heavy rigid foam filled hot tub cover propped up against the wall-when a gust of wind hit the cover and it suddenly fell hitting her husband on the head. The blow was hard enough to push them both under the water. Fortunately the cover only covered half the water surface so they were able to escape. Relieved and shaken they both considered themselves lucky not to be seriously injured, or so they thought.

A couple of days later the left side of her husbands face suddenly became paralyzed. He had no feeling, sensation orAction on that half. Naturally they both were quite frightened and thought he had suffered a stroke. They did exactly what any of us would have done and rushed immediately to the hospital. The doctor diagnosed him with Bells Palsy-which can come about by stress and or trauma. It was no mystery to his doctor what had most likely been the cause of the injury. It had only been a few days since his extremely heavy spa cover had struck the man in the head. He later made a full recovery. His is an extremely lucky case.

Something no hot tub dealer or foam cover manufacturer is ever going to tell you is that each one of these foam filled Hot Tub Covers will eventually get heavy, become waterlogged and become totally and completely useless. It is inevitable, totally indisputable and guaranteed to happen. Heavy foam covers can become as heavy as 200 lbs. That kind of weight is not something you want to mess with. A cover lifter can save you from having to lift your heavy foam cover, however many customers I have talked to over the years admit they have even had to replace their lifters because they have broken under the weight of their cover. Yikes.

Isn’t it about time we find a better way to cover our Hot Tubs? Well thanks to the world wide web, the next generation in Hot Tub Covers can be delivered right to your front door. Visit www.SpaCap.com right now before you buy another foam filled hot tub cover that will just end up as heavy as the last one. A Heavy Hot Tub Cover isn’t just inconvenient, it’s dangerous!

Want to find out more about Hot Tub Covers, then visit Gregg Phillips’ site on how to choose the best Hot Tub Covers for your needs. You can get a unique content version of this article from the Uber Article Directory.