Hot Tub Forum
Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: gwstudios on September 04, 2008, 12:52:11 pm
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Who else has put the hose in thier spa to add water for a nice soak later on and forgotten about it, resulting in a massive puddle of water in the yard and an overflowed tub that is now 70 degrees instead of 100? The good news is my spa has a drain built right into the ouside bottom corner so I can let water out and forget about that, making me have to put the hose back in.
I've done this more than once. Luckily, the overhang from the shell just causes the water to go straight down instead of riding down the skirting.
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And you admit it! I'd never admit to doing it once, never mind more than once :-[ :) ;D
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Stinks even more if you have a tub that it does run down the skirt and into the control panel tripping the breaker causeing you to wait till everything dries out before you can turn it back on!
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People need to learn from my mistakes. :P
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Try letting it happen 2 or 3 times/year on the spas in your showroom! What a mess.
The lip over shell design is the only way to go, I agree with you 100%! I've seen way too many spas that look like this when we haul them off:
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b206/EastTexasSpa/Picture243.jpg)
Terminator
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Fortunately, I caught my mistake about a half an inch below the auxillary control panel. :-[
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Try letting it happen 2 or 3 times/year on the spas in your showroom! What a mess.
Yeh, its a big joke in our showroom. I get a reminder call every few minutes when I get the hose out to top off a tub. Apparently I have let this overflow happen a few times !!!
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Try letting it happen 2 or 3 times/year on the spas in your showroom! What a mess.
Yeh, its a big joke in our showroom. I get a reminder call every few minutes when I get the hose out to top off a tub. Apparently I have let this overflow happen a few times !!!
Twice I've woken up at about 4:00am thinking I hear water only to realize its my pool overflowing. I've done it on the spa about 4 times but not in the past year partly because my wife now assumes I'll forget and reminds me every half hour.
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I filled one to the very top on the showroom a few months ago, but it didn't overflow. I did overflow a HotSpring Classic a couple decades ago and it ran under the wall into the tanning salon next door. I paid for the carpet cleaning company to come out and set up fans after they used the wet vac to suck up as much water as they could. They lifted up the carpet, let the fans blow over night, and then came back to put the carpet down when the padding was dry. Not cheap, not fun.
I put caulking along the wall on my side after everything dried, and I took out the threshold on the outside door right next to the spa. Sure enough, a few months later it happened again but this time the water all went out the back with no damage. Haven't done an overflow since then.
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