What actually matters in a hot tub.
Flashing lights, big stereos, waterfalls. Fun in the showroom, but they're not what makes a tub worth owning. What matters is how efficient it is, how little it costs to run, and whether it's built to last.
The Thermos
A thermos keeps your coffee hot for hours: thick walls, a lid that seals tight. Now picture that same thermos with a waterlogged foam lid, the foam soaks up water, loses its seal, and your coffee goes cold in minutes.
That's a traditional spa. Its foam cover absorbs water from the day you buy it, so it stops holding heat and the heater runs harder to keep up. About 70% of a tub's heat escapes through the top.
An Eco Spa is a proper thermos: an R-40 hard cover that stays dry and seals down tight with Power Clamps, R-30 insulation wrapping the body, and a 2″ air-chambered bottom. The heater barely has to work.
Our E6, on a power meter: just over a dollar a day in winter, 60–70¢ in summer, about $25 a month.
The Knife and the Sharpener
Plenty of hot tubs come with an ozone system. But on its own it's like a knife with no sharpener, not much filtration behind it, so you end up doing the work with chemicals yourself.
Our Ecozone setup is the knife and the sharpener together: the highest, most consistent ozone output you can put in a tub, backed by two large filters, 100 feet of filtration. The HDPE shell is non-porous, so bacteria struggles to grow in the first place.
That means a very small amount of chemicals: about a tablespoon of chlorine every one to two weeks. Not zero, we don't pretend it's chemical-free, just far less than a conventional tub.
One Solid Piece
Think about building something out of Lego versus carving it from one block. The Lego version has seams everywhere, pull one piece and the whole thing weakens.
Traditional spas are Lego: an acrylic shell glued to a wooden frame, screwed to a base, sealed with silicone. Every joint is a potential leak.
Our HDPE shell is one rotationally-molded piece. No seams, no weak points, nothing to delaminate. The strength is in the shell, which is why it carries a lifetime warranty on both the cover and the entire structure. We'll tell you straight: "We're the only company that does that." The moving parts (jets, pump) get 2-year parts and labour on Gecko components.
What it comes down to.
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