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Is A Hot Tub Cover Lifter Really The Answer?

Think you need a Hot Tub Cover Lifter? Most Hot Tub cover lifters are simply
a metal bar bent into a large U shape, that goes across the center of
your spa. You fold your hot tub cover over the bar and then push it off
your spa. These “Bar Cover Lifters,” actually work pretty well as long as your hot
tub cover is not too heavy. Which is usually when most spa owners decide they need a “Lifter.”

The hot tub cover lifter was an
after thought, an after market solution to a product that was already
in use. It seems to be a resonable solution until you actually try to use one. Most Hot Tub owners don’t even think about buying a lifter before their Hot Tub Cover is already
heavy. If that sounds like you, forget the lifter. It won’t help. The bar lifter does
nothing to help you get the cover open halfway (folding back the first side of the Hot Tub Cover over the bar).
If you can’t do that now, the lifter will do no good.

If you
are strong enough to lift your Heavy, Saturated Hot Tub Cover over the bar,
it will either rip itself in two on the lifter or the bar lifter itself
will be ripped from its own pivot points because it is not meant to
handle the weight of a saturated cover. The center seam of most Hot Tub Covers were never meant to handle the kind of load that water saturated foam puts on it.

The bar lifter does make a nice place to hang the hot tub cover. Again this requires a light weight, in most cases brand new hot tub cover to work easily.
That means, if the reason you bought the cover lifter was to avoid
having to replace your heavy hot tub cover, this is not the answer. Like every other Hot Tub Owner, you
will still be replacing your typical rigid Foam Filled Hot Tub Covers every couple of years to make that lifter effective. Which in most
cases is more frequently then you replace it now. If not, you will
begin to use your hot tub less and less. The harder you have to struggle to get
into it, the less priority it has.

If you already have a hot tub
cover lifter, you probably know all this. Don’t despair. You just need
to set aside enough money to replace your Hot Tub Covers, like clockwork, every
one to two years. When you buy the new cover, store the old one in a
dry place somewhere. When the new one hot tub cover is one year old you can
rotate the old one back onto the spa. It will have lost the weight of
the saturation once you took it off the hot tub. You can get some extra
life out of your hot tub covers this way but the fix is not permanent because
all vinyl’s will eventually crack and fall apart. If you add a new one
every three years and throw out the oldest one, you can keep two covers drying
while one is in use.

The other option for hot tub owners would be to buy a different Better Hot Tub Cover that
won’t get heavy or saturate.  I would recommend you visit SpaCap.com and check out the only Custom Made Hot Tub Covers that insultae better than rigid foam covers but won’t end up heavy like a typical foam spa cover.  A SpaCap Hot Tub Cover
can work in a similar way to lay over the bar. Keep in mind the goal is
to use your spa, not your lifter. SpaCap Hot Tub Covers meet these
requirements. The SpaCap will stay light weight because they don’t
saturate and since there is no foam it won’t break either.

You may have
to adjust how or where it pivots from to accommodate a different kind
of cover, but if it makes getting in and out of your spa easy that is
the real bottom line. SpaCap Hot Tub Covers are the answer.