We built a pool about 4 years ago, and recently sold our house. We are now building a new house and designing a new pool. We loved everything about our previous pool.
We live in Texas but still use the hot tub quit a bit. The issue with the previous pool is that it would take the hot tub 2-3 hours to get to temperature (from a ~50 degree temp to 103 temp). That is entirely to long so over time we ended up not using it as much as i cannot pre-plan by 3 hours as to when i want to get in.
So we are tossing around the following ideas to fix this, please give us feedback
1) A separate stand-alone hot tub. This is the most ideal scenario however i am really worried about the looks of the pool since the hot tub would be stand alone as we are building a higher end pool. Does anyone have feedback on this and any links to builds or photos of people who have done this?
2) Build a hot tub out of the same material as the pool, but do not have it spill over into the pool. have it own its own heater and pump so essentially its a separate unit, but would match the pool. Try to find someone to custom make me a hot tub cover so i could keep this warm all the time.
3) Run like 2 heats in line to make the hot tub heat up super quick - i am worried about gas costs here as my gas is expensive.
We live in Texas but still use the hot tub quit a bit. The issue with the previous pool is that it would take the hot tub 2-3 hours to get to temperature (from a ~50 degree temp to 103 temp). That is entirely to long so over time we ended up not using it as much as i cannot pre-plan by 3 hours as to when i want to get in.
So we are tossing around the following ideas to fix this, please give us feedback
1) A separate stand-alone hot tub. This is the most ideal scenario however i am really worried about the looks of the pool since the hot tub would be stand alone as we are building a higher end pool. Does anyone have feedback on this and any links to builds or photos of people who have done this?
2) Build a hot tub out of the same material as the pool, but do not have it spill over into the pool. have it own its own heater and pump so essentially its a separate unit, but would match the pool. Try to find someone to custom make me a hot tub cover so i could keep this warm all the time.
3) Run like 2 heats in line to make the hot tub heat up super quick - i am worried about gas costs here as my gas is expensive.