Spa pools. Types, features and characteristics

Relatively recently in the modern market there were swimming pools with a spa-complex. They are delivered to the customer in assembled form and ready for operation. The external design of this pool is interesting and varied. By analogy with the ordinary spa, the swimming pools under consideration are mounted quite quickly - during the day. The location of their location can be chosen both under the open sky, and on any, allowing on the sizes, the closed area. Similar pools perfectly combine the ability to take hydro massage procedures and swimming. In other words - this is a kind of coexistence of the swimming pool area and spa-massage in one building.

How are the spa pools

The design of the pool is arranged as follows: it is divided into two main zones - the first one: it is a place for swimming with a built-in countercurrent, and the second is equipped with seats in the form of sun loungers just for the procedure of the whirlpool.

Visiting such a pool gives an opportunity to learn how to swim, improve their skills in various styles of swimming, resort to the help of an instructor and do aqua aerobics and enjoy water massage procedures. Pools of this kind can consist of both two bowls and one. Already today it can be stated with certainty that the spa hydromassage pools daily become more and more popular. And it happens not without reason - this product has irrefutable advantages.

Absolutely all swimming pools with integrated hydromassage are equipped with systems for cleaning and heating water, as well as the ability to manually or automatically control the nozzles. Taking into account the size of the bowl, they can be divided into three main types:

• stationary,
• compact
• and super compact.

A fixed-type swimming pool accommodates up to seven tons of water, so thorough construction work will be required before it is installed and operational. These works are necessary in connection with the presence of a complex system of supply and discharge of water, as well as with hydraulic equipment. The capacity of such a pool is about ten adults. In addition to this, when assembling this type of pool, you need to remember the additional wiring, because the power of the attached electrical equipment is quite large.

Spa pools - stationary and portable, differences and advantages

Virtually all less-important catalogs representing spa pools will offer several options for portable compact models, inflatable spa pools. Their capacity will be no more than seven people. The main advantage over stationary pools is that they will have the opportunity to move to a room or open space associated with the owner's desire, weather conditions or seasons. Despite the impressive volume of the bowl reaching up to two tons, the pool manages without a fixed connection to the water supply. It can be filled with an ordinary garden hose.

Spa pools Jacuzzi can be installed even in the apartment

The more compact types of pools look like jacuzzi baths with a rather large selection of functions. The main significant advantage of this type in comparison with the two previous ones is that a swimming pool of this kind can be put even in the apartment, of course if quadrature allows, there is a good ventilation system and the water supply is conscientious.

Litrazh at such a bath is not large and it consumes little energy, so you can use and enjoy all the offered functions and types of massage without fear of large utility bills.

Types of spa pools for energy consumption

By the amount of energy consumed, all types of spa pools can be divided into three types - economical, standard and those for installation and use which will require additional wiring. Such diverse consumption of electricity depends on: a variety of hydro massage systems that operate under different pressures; from the design features of the pool; from the special purpose of the pool.

Water purification systems

Also in pools of all types there is a diverse purification system: mechanical - it is a polyester fabric in the form of a filter or original blocks made of quartz sand; combined - represents various variations of tandems from the above components with silver-carbon filters and ozonation. By the way, the application of ozonization will guarantee quick and fairly high-quality cleaning. With the use of ozone, we allow the option of changing water once every few months. Ozone contributes to the elimination of all possible microorganisms living in water. Also, to help him in the fight against microorganisms, the components of the materials from which the bowls are made will also come.

Spa pools, the price of a finished product and created by own hands

The following information for those still thinks that it will be more comfortable, cheaper, more reliable, more practical - to build a spa-pool on your own or purchase a swimming pool for a swimming spa.

Initially, you need to know what exactly it will take to build a swimming pool on your own:

• the construction of a bath of a basin of iron and concrete - takes a fairly long period of time (up to six weeks);
• waste in the construction will be significant, they will have to be removed to someone - as a consequence, an increase in the number of wage workers and financial costs to pay for their work;
• assembly of equipment for water treatment will take approximately about two weeks. It should be taken into account that this work needs to be done correctly and correctly. Competently choose the equipment by capacity, by manufacturing firms and qualitatively make a bookmark when pouring a bowl of concrete;
• on the product of waterproofing and the cladding process will take about another three weeks. But before the beginning of these actions, it is necessary to choose from all the materials presented those that will suit this particular pool and all this after when the conditions for its operation will be precisely defined. Do not forget that at this time the installation of equipment will continue;
• the next, the final stage - the launch of the spa pool. The final action will take about a week, because it is at this stage that the final adjustment of the equipment and the elimination or correction of other attendant moments occur.

If you do not perform complicated mathematical actions and add up all the above-mentioned preliminary terms for certain works, you will get approximately three months period. Of course, these calculations are rather approximate and in each individual variant the terms can fluctuate. The most important thing is to understand that the beginning of works on waterproofing, facing and launching is possible only after finishing the finishing works in a room intended for the pool.

The desire to equip the pool with additional entertainments, for example attractions, will require large financial investments, time and solving related issues. Basically for these reasons, most of the pools are equipped with only a few nozzles.

Advantages of buying a ready spa-pool

Similar problems will not arise when buying ready-made spa pools for swimming. A bowl in such types of basins is made from acrylic materials of various colors. When buying this type of pool you can not worry about the presence of a heating system in it, a special system for purifying water with built-in filters and ozonizer, an impressive counterflow system, waterfalls, hydromassage, lighting, and often a stereo system. In the purchase pools all this is prudently mounted by the manufacturer.

Undoubtedly, the swimming pool for the spa is more profitable - buying it eliminates the need for building work. It will take only a platform with an even surface and a day for the installation of the entire structure. Also not a few important positive factors are the economy of finance, the lack of questions about the correct choice of equipment for counterflow and water treatment, it is expedient and well-balanced pumping complex.

How to care for the equipment

Simplicity of care for a swimming spa lies in the fact that it serves itself independently. Among its equipment there is a so-called control unit operating from an electrical network. The work of this block is analogous to the heart of man. It provides an opportunity to keep under control all the processes that occur, namely, to provide filtration and ozonation processes around the clock in the program mode that the owner has installed in advance. Also, there are processes performed by the block automatically, they were programmed to work by default.

The program of protection against cooling and overheating is thought through. The programs are thought out and configured so that to avoid possible problems associated with temperature changes. The computerized pool unit is programmed for electric savings, so the systems are switched on and off only if necessary - maintaining a predetermined temperature, directly in the process of swimming or whirlpool procedures, with the necessary filtration cycles. The possibility of controlling the unit from a waterproof remote control has been thought out prudently.

Chemistry for spa pools

Naturally, funds specifically designed for care will be needed - to create the necessary PH-balance, to carry out other types of disinfection, in addition to ozonation, in other words, to ensure long-term and safe operation. The cost of money for acquiring reagents is relatively small. In any case, they will not exceed the costs provided for the purchase of chemicals for conventional, standard pools.

The most profitable financial investment when buying chemicals for cleaning the spa pool will be in reagents designed specifically for this type of pool. In such reagents, the constituents are most balanced and resistant to a thirty-degree temperature, which makes it impossible for water to foam when the whirlpool is in operation.

Swimming pools with two different temperature bowls - ideal for swimming and taking hydro massage procedures

As discussed above, the swimming spa consists of two bowls. The temperature in these bowls can be maintained in each different. This is an additional plus of such pools. This moment is very convenient and profitable. It is quite possible in one of the bowls to create optimal conditions for swimming, with the necessary temperature not more than twenty eight degrees. The temperature should be within normal limits, because swimming in water with a higher temperature can adversely affect human health.

And in another bowl, create optimal conditions for undergoing hydro massage, with the necessary temperature reaching up to thirty-nine degrees. The temperature should be exactly in such limits, because water massage at lower temperatures will be useless, meaningless and will lose all its healing and relaxing properties. For this type of massage, the temperature is the main criterion. The human body in low-temperature water can not relax to the required degree, hence the muscle tissue is not ready for the adoption of procedures.

Benefit from taking spa treatments

To overestimate the benefits that water treatment brings to a person is difficult.

For example, the creators of the Intex spa pool indicate that the whirlpool allows:

• relieve stressful conditions,
• significantly improve skin color, its elasticity, enrich its cells with oxygen,
• take thermal therapy procedures,
• reduce the appearance of cellulite,
• get rid of excess weight,
• increase muscle mobility,
• restore the motor functions of the limbs,
• strengthen the metabolism and normalize the protective functions of the body,
• accelerate the excretion of toxins from the body.

Spa pools with countercurrent

The counterflow system is also not unimportant. Its task is to ensure a uniform and sufficiently powerful current. More recently, Canadian developers have created a counterflow system equipped with support nozzles. In the system of this type, the location of the nozzles is slightly different than usual - along the length of the pool edge.

This arrangement makes it possible to create a uniform and strong current, as well as to support the body of a floating person.