Smelly Hot Tub Covers
Does you Hot Tub smell like mildew even though your chemicals are right? Have you changed your spa water, shocked your hottub chemicals and still you have that moldy smell?
It’s not the water, it’s the Hot Tub Covers. What you are smelling is the mildew that has grown in that foam hot tub cover. No matter what you do to the water that smell is going to stay. If you want to prove it to yourself, try this… Go out and take that old hot tub cover off your hot tub. Set it far away from the hot tub. Check your spa chemicals. After a day or so go out and take a whiff of your hot tub. Smell any mildew? Now put the old rigid foam hot tub cover back on the hot tub. In a couple hours, repeat the smell test. The smell is back, as strong as ever.
So are you doomed to a smelly hot tub? What if you buy a New Foam Hot Tub Cover? Would that help? Only if you don’t put water in your spa! But that sort of defeats the purpose doesn’t it.
Why does this happen? Because rigid foam hot tub covers are almost perfect laboratory conditions to grow mold and mildew when you put them over a warm source of moisture. Foam is actually pretty good insulation IF you keep it dry. Once it starts to saturate with water, the little air spaces in it that do the insulating are gone. When that happens, and it always does, your foam filled hot tub cover has about as much insulation as a wet piece of plywood.
So what’s the answer to this dilemma? Get rid of that heavy foam hot tub cover and get something different. Get something totally different than the rigid foam hot tub covers and get a SpaCap Hot Tub Cover.
How is a SpaCap better? The SpaCap does not use foam to insulate. Instead of foam the SpaCap uses air chambers like your storm windows do. Layers of air. blanket your hot tub right from the water level. Laying right on the water, the air filled hot tub cover insulates the water not the steam above the water. Since it doesn’t use foam, SpaCap Hot Tub Covers don’t have any place for the mildew to grow. So your hot tub chemicals stay more consistent, your water stays warm and you don’t end up with a foul smell. You can get back to enjoying your hot tub.
