Spa considerations when you have a pool

[Vanti]

Hi y'all! We just bought a house with an inground pool. We're first time pool owners, so we're super new to all of this and are learning the TFP way for our pool. Since we live in Oregon, I assume our pool will be closed for the winter (told you we're new -- IDEK if the pool gets closed or not yet!). So, we were thinking about getting a hot tub. So far, I know that you can have plug & play ones, and ones that require professional electrical stuff. I also know that Marquis is made here in OR, and I'd like to support local so we'll definitely lean toward them or another PNW company (I feel like there was at least one more Oregon based company, but that's based off of Google like 3 weeks ago).

What should we take into consideration? At this point, I'm not sure how old our pool is or how old the equipment is. I feel like we'd like to convert to a SWG system at some point but I've got no clue when that would be. Is there any sort of equipment overlap between a pool and a hot tub that we should know about/plan for? Are there things we can do for the hot tub that would make the pool part more streamlined down the road as we end up replacing or upgrading equipment?

I'm pretty much clueless about this, obvs. Thanks, as always, for your guidance and knowledge.

 

[cowboycasey]

You really want them to be completely separate systems.. You could have power coming from the same place but nothing other than that.. The plug in ones are not really what you want unless you are seeing if you like hot tubs...

I went old school and did commercial setup without motherboards and all the neat stuff, it was just a hardcore hottub... they have really neat ones that have all kinds of stuff in them.. they can cost some bucks down the road.. get a service contract if you can.. Mine had a warranty and the contract/parts was 100% covered year 1 and 2, down to 50% year 5 and that was the lowest it went for parts, I had to pay 100% of the service call...

If you can get one with salt water generator get it or convert to it, best thing I and others have done

 

[A.O.]

Yeah, what cowboy said up there.. A stand alone hot tub is just that, stand alone, not connected in any way to the pool and in my opinion the best way to go. If something goes wrong with one you still have the other going. And like he said dont get a 110v plug in, especially up there in the cold.
All they need is a 220 volt line run for them, (that professional electric stuff you mentioned ) other than that just fill with water and go.

 

[Vanti]

Cool, thanks y'all! Are there any systems that overlap brand-wise between hot tubs and pools? Like If I'm going to have a salt water hot tub and eventually covert the pool is there a company that does both, so I can have one app to monitor/manage each instead of two? Or . . . heaters? That sort of thing. Like our house has two Ecobees -- one app and I can manage either thermostat. That's more of what I was thinking and should have included last night.

 

[ahampleman]

I waiting for Master Spa Ledend LSX 800 to be delivered.

 

[cowboycasey]

Not that I know of.. I guess it would be hot tub dependent on what company you went with... Most SWG for hot tubs are just drop in modules and have no automation.. Not many hot tubs that I know of have automation...

 

[GCS]

Not a tub expert as I am getting my first one this week but me personally I would want the systems separate.

I think even the high end mega pool installs you see on TV shows and such have separate systems between the 2 but I could be wrong.

 

[A.O.]

I know some hot tubs come with the SWG built in, as far as the automation/app part, I've no idea I'm sure its out there..
If you have enough money you can probably get anything you want..

 

[Vanti]

Not that I know of.. I guess it would be hot tub dependent on what company you went with... Most SWG for hot tubs are just drop in modules and have no automation.. Not many hot tubs that I know of have automation...

See? This is why I'm asking -- I had no idea they were just drop in and didn't have the same sort of equipment pools do, haha! There's so much to learn and so little time when doing the eleventy billion things that come along with a new house and getting the other on the market.