Swim spas vs. Hot Tubs vs. Swimming Pools

“Swimming pools plus hot tubs is equivalent to swim spas”. You may wonder why and how it happens. A swim spa is a combination of swimming pool and a hot tub spa. The best characteristics of pools and hot tubs are rolled into one. When you have a swim spa at home, you don’t need to put up a swimming pool at the same time buy hot tubs for a relaxation. You will just spend thousands of cash for that. Whereas with swim spas, you can save money and you will enjoy the combination of the best characteristics that swimming pools and hot tubs offer. What a wonderful invention right?

Sometimes you wonder, what are the things that make swim spas different from hot tubs and swimming pools. Well, swim spas have common characteristics like with those devices. But to think, a swim spa is more on hot tub- like-features. A swim spa has jets and powerful circulations of water like hot tubs have. Add to this is the hot water that can be controlled as to the needs of the users.

Swim spas consist of filters and pumps like hot tubs. Swimming pools also have filters, but filters of swimming pools are not totally the same with hot tubs and swim spas. The advantage of swim spas over hot tubs is that you

can do some aquatic movements in there. You can only sit with hot tubs but you can’t swim right?

On the other part, a swim spa is different with swimming pool by size. It is smaller like hot tubs. This is the great advantage of swim spas from swimming pools. You are free of installing your swim spas inside or outside your house or wherever you like. This is very ideal to people who don’t have enough space in putting up a large size swimming pools. But it is better to let swim spas professional do the installation for safety.

Swim spas over swimming pools are much cheaper. That is why aquatic enthusiasts prefer to choose swim spas than a swimming pool. Anyway you can do endless aquatic movements with swim spas like what you do in pools.

Considering the maintenance, a swim spa has less maintenance than a typical swimming pool. Imagine cleaning a large size pools, surely you will be tired by just looking at it for the first time. With swim spas, all you have to do is to drain the water at least once a month, clean the filters and the pumps, clean the shell, and check the balance of water now and then. These are just simple tasks to do compare to the maintenance of swimming pools. You can do it by yourself.

The large size of a typical pools refrain the owners to do the cleaning job. They would likely hire somebody to do it, one to two persons preferably. See, it takes a lot of effort and expenses when you choose to have a swimming pool. A swim spa is just right thing for you. Never mind buying hot tubs or investing money in putting up swimming pools if you can just buy swim spas as an alternative to the two.