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Futuristic Hot Tub Design

Spa Design, Ltd., a company established in Hong Kong, has developed a new portable spa design combining portability and perimeter overflow capability.

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Borates: Once Per Year

Haviland

Once per year, Haviland reminds you that borates help maintain ideal water quality – and only need to be tested and reapplied once per year.

Borates: Once Per Year

APSP Releases Water-Management Talking Points

It’s been a dry and hot summer for most of the United States. In much of the nation's midsection and the South, vast swaths are under either “severe” or “extreme” drought conditions, according to the University of Nebraska’s Drought Mitigation Center. These conditions make it likely that pools and hot tubs will be targeted for water-usage restriction by state and local government officials, APSP says. Under “exceptional” conditions (often categorized as Level III or IV), all non-essential water uses are subject to review and restriction. The goal, however, is to move pools and spas as far down the “list”’ as possible, to the point where they are only impacted under the worst (and extremely rare) conditions. Accomplishing this goal requires an energized and proactive membership, willing to engage and demonstrate to state or local officials:

Interview With Coverplay's E. Jess Tudor

E. Jess Tudor is the CEO of AirFrame Spa Cover, a new line of spa covers that has been around for just over a year and is affiliated with the Coverplay brand Tudor created.

Hot Spring Spas Gives Away Hot Tub In Facebook Contest

Hot Spring Spas recently announced Don Benecke, of Osage Beach, Mo., as the winner in a hot tub giveaway on the company’s Facebook page. To be eligible, contestants had to “like” the Hot Spring Spas Facebook page and then watch an animated video explaining the ACE Salt Water System. Contestants could increase their chances of winning by sharing the video with friends.

Spa Cover And Lifter Roundup

As spa sales have slipped, manufacturers of covers and removal systems have increasingly turned their attention to the replacement market. To increase appeal, they've incorporated new materials, increased thermal efficiency and in one case even eased removal by adding a remote control.

Standard For Residential Spas Up For Public Review And Comment

The Association of Pool & Spa Professionals (APSP) announces the draft revision of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/APSP-6 1999 Standard for Residential Portable Spas and Swim Spas is available for public review and comment. Comments are due by Aug. 20.

Product Focus: The Latest Portable Spa Models

Check out the new 2012 portable spas that will have your customers relaxing in no time. These manufacturers have whatever your customers need, from affordability to complete luxury and everything in between, with some of the most-advanced jet therapy systems available.

Spotlight: Patio Pools & Spas, Tucson

Patio Pools & Spas constructs pools in a vivid but sensitive ecosystem, which evokes a different approach to structural design and the landscape artist’s color palette.

Bullfrog's Ludlow To Retire; CEO Pasley Will Run Company

Bullfrog International president David Ludlow has announced his retirement from the company, which he founded in 1996. Former Jacuzzi executive and current Bullfrog CEO Jerry Pasley will take over, according to an email from Ludlow.

Hot Tub Hippie

Beth Hamil is vice president, corporate compliance, for Del Ozone in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Back in 1978, she was a 25-year-old Midwesterner beginning a career at a redwood barrel manufacturer on California’s Central Coast.

Jacuzzi Acquires ThermoSpas

Jacuzzi Group Worldwide, parent company to both Jacuzzi Hot Tubs and Sundance Spas, has acquired the assets of ThermoSpas, based in Wallingford, Conn. ThermoSpas began manufacturing and selling hot tubs in 1983.

Hot Tub Boats Hit Seattle

Lake Union in Seattle is already pretty darn beautiful and relaxing. However, May brought an even more relaxing way to enjoy this one-of-a-kind setting...

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