HOT TUB COVERS

If you have a hot cover, keeping it covered is very important for several reasons. The obvious one is safety. You don't want your small children climbing or falling into the water and getting hurt. Hot tub covers also help to keep the water heat from evaporating. For outdoor hot tubs you need a cover to keep dirt, debris, and snow out of the tub area.

Hot tub covers come on several styles. Some of the most popular are

• aluminum - for situations requiring strength and extreme durability (such as children climbing on it, the weight of snow, etc)
• rolling covers - when you don't want to manually lift it off the tub, you can instead roll it away. Great for those who have trouble lifting.
• insulating covers - really keeps the heat in. This is usually the most popular option.

Aluminum hot tub covers are also very strong, and will hold around 1000 pounds, which would include children, dogs, something falling on it, and so on.

When purchasing your new cover you need to be sure it will fit your size of hot tub. You will need to carefully measure your tub to get the perfect size. If you need it to cover both the fiberglass tub shell and the wooden skirt area you'll want to measure from the outside of the wood skirt so it covers everything. Some people only have it cover the shell portion. This is really a matter of personal preference, quality is the same for either sizing option.

If you have an octagon or other oddly shaped tub you'll need to measure all sides in case any are different from the others. They must all be exactly the same for it to be a true octagon. This is important for the perfect fit. To make it easiest on you and the dealer make a top down drawing and write the numbers for each side length and the total length of each side.