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Posted by Charlie Morgan on January 5, 2007, 1:16 pm
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:41:50 -0500, Bob G.
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>>On 4 Jan 2007 08:26:55 -0800, "Your Local Pool Guy"
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>>>That's because the foam inside the cover sucks up water from both
>>>outside the spa during rain and snow and also from condensation from
>>>inside the spa. A quick tip to help make the cover a little lighter is
>>>to take the cover off the spa on a sunny day. Stand it up like a tent
>>>and open up any zippers the cover may have. this will help dry out your
>>>spa cover just a little. Keep doing this on sunny days to ensure
>>>dryness.
>>>
>>>And if you just bought a cover this will happen so in order to prevent
>>>it buy a cheap plastic tarp to throw over the cover to keep it
>>>protected from the elements. It will still collect condensation from
>>>inside the spa but it wont be as bad.
>>>
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>>Bwhahahahahahaha! This is too funny!
>>
>>CWM
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>Last cover I had lasted 7 years BEFORE the wife complained it was
>getting a "tad" too heavy for her to remove my itself... and honestly
>it did weight a heck of a lot more then the new one I just installed
>BUT these things are NOT that expensive..I would rather buy a new one
>every 6-7 years then remove it every sunny day...
>
>The vinyl cover on the old one looked just fine BTW after the 7
>years.. but boy the sytrofoam sure was waterlogged (saturated)...
>
>Bob G.
>
The reason I'm laughing is that there is no way in hell you can dry
out those blocks of foam once they are saturated. Maybe if you took
the blocks out of the covers completely and had a giant oven where you
could heat them for a few weeks...
Most cover suppliers offer an option to "double wrap" the blocks. The
polyethelene wrap protecting the foam from moisture is what fails.
Once that poly rots away, the blocks quickly soak up water. The double
wrap of poly effectively doubles the life of the cover, and is usually
a very inexpensive option.
Most people have a cover to keep out debris and insulate the tub to
reduce power consumption. Taking the cover off to dry it would be
counter-productive even if it *was* effective. Just plain stupid
advice from "your local pool spammer".
CWM
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