What to Prepare Before Placing Inground Hot Tubs
Inground hot tubs can be your perfect choice at home. Having inground hot tubs might be your dream during this time. However, building inground hot tubs is not as simple as buying portable hot tubs or inflatable hot tubs.
If you want to buy portable hot tubs, what you need to do is just select the models available, and order one of them to deliver it to your home, then decide where the portable hot tubs should be placed.
It will be different if you are going to get yourself the inground hot tubs. You need to prepare several things before building inground hot tubs. You must consider it carefully, because your inground hot tubs is built in the ground, you cannot move that as you please. Here are several things you need to prepare:
1. Select the place you want to build inground hot tubs.
This is an important thing to consider, decide where you want to build inground hot tubs at your home, the location of spa is up to you. As long as it is convenient for you and your family, you may ask spa dealer to determine the right location to place your hot tubs.
Another thing is to ensure that the place is flat enough and well drainage, so that your inground hot tubs will work properly and free from mud which can make you feel inconvenient when soaking inside the inground hot tubs.
2. Determine the measurement
The ground must have the same size with the actual inground hot tubs you want to place; you can use chalk to help you draw the outline.
3. Free the place from disturbing objects
It determines to clean the area from disturbing objects such as tree, shrubs, garbage, power line and others, so that inground hot tubs can be built smoothly.
4. Measure carefully the distance between inground hot tubs and the water source.
What means in this case is the garden hose. You have to place the inground hot tubs as close as possible to the garden hose so that it can ease you to refill the water. Moreover, inground hot tubs must be drained regularly at least four or five times a year, and you need to refill the water.
5. Ensure the inground hot tubs close to electrical outlet.
That is because inground hot tubs need a power supply to run it. Ask the electrician to help you to choose household outlet and establish the connection if you do not know how.
6. Flatting the ground from bumps or hole.
In this case, you can use tractor, shovel or hoe; anyway, tractor will do it well for you. Clean the area from any rock, tree and bushes. Doing it well before you put the inground hot tubs, to make sure the installation will be done smoothly.
7. The last preparation is putting gravel layer on the ground.
The thick of gravel layer is adjusted with the actual size of your inground hot tubs, then make the surface of gravel layer as even as possible. After everything is settled, the inground hot tubs is ready to be placed.
