2018 Spring & Garden

Page 32 2018 Spring Home & Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS May 2, 2018 the first underwater jet, originally used in bathtubs, and called it a Jacuzzi jet. The Jacuzzi® brand today makes bathtubs as well as portable hot tubs – but since Jacuzzi® is a brand name, it’s a good thing to remember that not every hot tub or jetted bathtub is a Jacuzzi®. - Descriptions courtesy of https:// www.hotspring.com . The heat and the jets in a spa or hot tub provide a therapeutic massaging action to relieve your body of aches, pain and knots caused during modern life. They have been shown to be helpful with conditions like Fibromyalgia, and aid your body in achieving total relaxation. People talk all the time about going home and getting in the hot tub, and those listening react with longing and envy. There are cheap hot tubs made out of plastic, offering fewer jets, lower pressure, higher maintenance and a very limited lifetime, and more expensive acrylic hot tubs which are said to last forever if cared for properly. Hot tubs are also recreational devices, and come equipped with a myriad of exciting accessories such as waterfalls and fountains, lighting sets, spinning jets, lounge chairs, and Bluetooth speakers to name a few. Your hot tub can even talk via WiFi to you to tell you its status, temperature and whether the filter needs to be cleaned (if it is the middle of the winter and your hot tub does not answer when you try to connect with your cell phone app, it might mean that the power has gone out and you need to hustle home before your hot tub freezes). 10 Tips For Buying a Hot Tub There are hundreds, if not thousands of places to get hot tubs in this day and age. Most big-box home improvement stores offer hot tubs that you can order and have shipped to your house. Club stores like Sam’s Club and Costco offer hot tubs of all different designs, colors, sizes and accessorized in all kinds of ways. The internet hosts thousands of websites offering hot tubs. The problem with all of these hot tub suppliers is that, although the shipping is generally included in the price, your three to four hundred pound hot tub will be delivered via semi truck to the end of your driveway, and from there the rest is up to you. You have to unbox it right there at the end of the drive while the truck is still there in case there is damage or something is missing. You have to haul it to the place you will be putting it (BTW – four hundred pounds of big bulky hot tub is not easily moved). And you get the pleasure of either hiring an electrician to do the wiring or you get to do it yourself. Continued ■ ■