User:Aquastarman/sandbox

Along about 1985 in Northern California we had one of those hundred year floods. Parts of the nother Sacramento Valley were under water for nearly a month. As the Waters receeded and the Insurance companies moved in to tally up the damage a new item had gained popularity in recent years,the hot tub

Hot tubs were generally large wooden barrels with Gas fired heaters Pool filters and Pool pumps .A large hot tub could hold as much as 700 gallons and provided seating for four to six people. As the popularity of Hot tubs increased Various Manufactors developed Fiberglas vessels to take the place of the wooden barrel. These were placed in Redwood decks and were generally installed by Landscapers or general contractors.

An area was located on the property trenches dug for the plumbing and control cables Concrete poured for the equipment necessary to power the spa. Then Electricity and Natural gas provide to the equipment. The Spa usually came either as a blank shell or pre plumbed. If the Spa needed to be plumbed the work was done either at the distributor where the spa was purchased or done right there at the job sight. Once plumbed the ground would be excavated to a depth determined by the finished decking usually about 24 inched down into the ground. This area would later become the supporting structure for the thousand of pounds of water the spa was meant to hold.

Next a carpenter or Deck builder would come to Rough-out the deck. The framinging members of the deck would be put in place leaving room for attaching the plumbing and light fixture. Once the spa was lowered into the still opened deck the plumbing from the equipment would be connected to the plumbing on the spa with usually a pvc solvent rated at the size of pipe and pressures used in spas.

Once the Plumbing was done the Spa was shimmed to the finished height(the hight the lip of the spa would be once the decking was completed) Then A load of sand was generally deliveed to the job sight b lanscapers or landscaping supply companies and with a garden hose attached to a 1/2 Steel pipe the sand was blown into the cavity between the spa and the ground. The Pipe was used to get below the bottom of the spa and insure there were no voids that might cause the spa to sink. Where that to happen the weight of the water would place extreme pressure on the lip of the spa causing cracks to occur.