Our spa gets it's own post today! When we bought the house the spa was partially covered and many critters lived (and died) in it. One day last year I got the wild hair to see if it worked. I did what anyone would do who has no experience with something.... I made a call to a repair man! Well, several repairmen actually. Turns out no one could come out right that minute. Me, being one that can rarely wait two minutes, I put on my rain boots (same ones I put on to kill the baby rattlesnake...) went out to figure it out myself. After finding out the make/model I Googled it and found the manual online. Out I went to drain and clean the spa! The living critters (frogs) were appalled at my idea. I was appalled at how many dead lizards were in there.
After cleaning and filling the spa, I switched the thing on to see what would happen. Well, I'll be... the dang thing worked! For 4 minutes. Then it turned off and had an error code on the screen. I drained the water out, covered it back up and figured I'd deal with it another day....
Fast forward to last Wednesday. Same wild hair reappeared. I think it has something to do with the sunshine. This time the repair guy I called could come right out so I had a good feeling about the whole thing. Turned out the valves were not all the way open, starving the pump of water, thus shutting the motor off. He opened the valves, cleaned the filters, filled it and turned it on - it worked! He offered to clean it and put chemicals in it, get it ready to go. He said I could be drinking my glass of wine in it that night. We had a deal.
To say the kids were excited is an understatement. They all came out in their swimsuits while he was still cleaning it! The water was 59 degrees. The water didn't heat up enough for us to go in that night. The excitement continued to build until the kids finally got to go in on Friday night. Declan stayed the night at a friends house on Saturday so Greg, the girls and I went in on Saturday night. After much pestering we let Declan and Teagan go in yesterday, but the fun was short lived as Declan choked on water and puked in the spa...... I'm still trying to figure out what to do about that.....
The big question now is what color cover to get. With the house being yellow, white trim and a green/black roof, I'd love to hear your suggestions for color. Here is a picture to whet your whistle for suggestions.
Thanks for coming by!
2 comments:
I say either a dark green or black cover to match your roof. Have fun with that!! I loved our spa until it died. Many a cocktail under the stars with my hubby. *sigh*
Dark green is a good idea, but I think you could get away with brown, too.
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