Fixing the spas plumbing

Took out the damaged pieces and ordered the replacement part from The Spa Works out of California. Very nice people and helped me along the process.

New parts assembled and started installing. Make sure you use a heat gun to get the old rubber tubing flexible enough to fit on the hose barbs.

all new manifolds installed and ready to flip back and test for any leaks.

Repaired some jets that were dry rotted.

Installed new H.E.E.T system on the unit.

Filled the tub and checked for leaks.

Next Blog will deal with electric and insulating of the tub. 

Moving the Hot Tub and determining were the leak is.

Now that the concrete pad is poured for the tub I decided that the outdoor kitchen would fit in that space better. So I moved it there. I then tried to move the tub like the Egyptians but lacked the time or man power. So I asked the nice people at M and D Equipment for one of there Sky Trak Machines. (Really large construction site forklift that telescopes out the boom quite a ways.)

I know pretty cool machine. Now don't worry I used to drive one of these for a living in a past life as a construction worker. this unit allowed me to pickup the very heavy tub and boom out to my back patio without driving on the grass. Barely have any but would like to keep what I have.

After positioning the tub I had to take off the sides and hand dig out the insulation foam to access the piping. Not fun and filled up about 8 large trash cans of foam.

I then found the problem. The previous owner had drained the tub for winter but did not put antifreeze in the lines so the bottom main lines had frozen and cracked the main PVC lines. Darn This meant I had to flip the tub on its side. Remember it weighs about 1200#dry. This took me my neighbor and Brenda(She was not very happy with helping)

    

Removal of the broken parts and replacement with new parts in the next blog.

Pouring the pad for the Spa

Now that I have the hot tub I need to make a place for it. Next the house in the back yard is a nice place to place the spa. After talking to the concrete company they recommended that I have at least 5" of concrete. I Decided to have 6-7" with a base of 6-7" of gravel.
Vincent and I proceeded to hand dig a 9' x 9' square 12-14" deep. No problem took us about an hour and good news I had plenty of dirt for other projects.

Now that the hole was dug it is time for the fill of gravel. I borrowed a gas powered compactor and packed it down.

Vincent setting up the forms.

 Supervising

 Still Supervising while Vincent measures the depth.

Vincent ready for the concrete truck to arrive mud boots and all.

 Look at the nice pad Vincent poured he thought it was totally cool.

 Supervising

 Pad all poured and ready for the Tub.

 Next I will level and landscape around the pad.

New hot t renovation

Received a Hot Tub from a friend. Really cool tub from Vita Spa and I have always wanted a Spa but could never justify the money for a new one. It worked out good because my friend needed it removed from there home and did not want to just chop it up and throw it away. Great for me. He has never used since they moved into there new home a year ago. Therefore they did not know if it worked or not. Wouldn't you know it I did not care it was cool and I wanted it.
I went over with a large trailer and a very good friend to see if we could even move this beast. We did and after some ingenuity transported it home. Now came the process of finding a place for it.
This Blog will have two parts to it. The concrete pad and the renovating of the plumbing system. Yes when i put water in a came back out very quickly. Yeah the tub had been drained but it turns out they never ran antifreeze through the main pipes that always store water in the low parts.
Here are the kids playing in the ice cold tub after I had sanitized it with Norwex and testing it out for leaks in the driveway of the house.

 Very cold there is no way I was getting in.