Do any of you have a hot tub or spa on your lanai?
 

By a 'lanai', I mean a screened area behind your house covered by your roof, not a birdcage attached to your house.

We are considering putting a hot tub on our lanai but someone told us we would not be allowed to run a 220 voltage line onto our lanai. It would be too close to the fans on our lanai, or something like that.

Do any of you know anything about this issue? Thanks in advance for your answers.

We have a hot tub on the lanai. We chose a tub that is 110 convertible to 220 if needed. We have not converted it, 110 is plenty of juice for us.

To get 220, the electrician would remove and cap the ceiling fan outlet. What happens after that ~ he'll never know.:lipsrsealed::lipsrsealed:

The info you got was wrong. We have a 240 volt hot tub on the lanai, and actually moved it, so we did this twice. NOW, a word of caution, you need 2 permits, one for the spa, and one for the electrical supply.
The first permit will review the location, the need for tempered glass on all doors, sliders, and windows within so many feet of the spa. The second will cover the specialized grounding of the spa, the GFCI. the disconnect switch, etc. Don't skip on the permits, we thought the spa installer got all of these, and found out later (when we went to move it) that they did not...
Hope this helps, and send me a PM with you phone number if you would like to discuss further.

We have a 110 softub spa on our birdcage. The spa is grounded. They had to install an outlet near the spa to plug it in and there was a permit involved when the bird cage was built. The electrician pulled the permit and we did not ask him to he just did what he knew we needed. We have regular windows and a normal sliding door going out to the spa which came with the house. We did not have to buy special windows or sliders.

Before we enclosed the lanai and put on the bird cage we had the spa sitting on our lanai and plugged into the nearest outlet. The softspas are portable spas and we just put it where we wanted and didn't call anyone because it just plugs into a normal outlet.

Another word of caution. Our neighbor has an above ground spa in the lanai and he suffered from "hot tub lung", due in part due to the lack of ventilation. The other contributing factor was improper treatment of the spa. The disease is treatable, but he was uncomfortable for a couple of weeks.

Was this a screened in room or a glassed in room?

As usual, Villagethinker is 100% correct. We have a hot tub, 220v, on our screened in lanai, no birdcage. We capped the fan that was close (we have 3 others on the lanai). The fan is in my garage and I can do what I want with it now that the inspections are done. However, more concerning than a freak electrical accident is that you can hit your head on it when getting in/out of the spa.

We have friends with a 220 spa on their lanai. We actually have a 220 spa which is partially submerged in a concrete vault in our backyard with fun landscaping around it. It was all approved by the Villages and the county. We love it.

Per code--no electrical outlet within--overhead 7' of the water--thats why the fan had to be capped thats the old NEC=its not just 249v--but even a 115 v spa

I have one on my lanai...wish it was on someone else's lanai....

If you are not using it, sell it or give it away. I have seen these advertised several times.
I really like ours, and use it 2 to 4 times per week. During the summer, I turn the heaters OFF, and it cools down to around 80 degrees, and then I use it to cool off without having to go the local pool, plus I can still use the jets for massage.

Why is that?

I have a inflatable hot tub that I bought from sams. It works great. I love it. I just plugged it in, and it inflates. Then I fill the tub with my hose. Goes up to 104.
Used it daily in the winter months. It's now stored in my garage.

It came with the house and I never turned it on. I am here alone for around 5 months a year, with Mom and Dad coming to visit. Maybe next year I will give it a try.

It's addictive. Once you try it, you won't want to get out. And like VT said, you can turn it down to 80 in the summer and get a cool dip. And it really isn't hard to drain it for the time you're away, no need to worry about freezing.

Thanks for all of your replies. Based on what you all said, we will definitely have an electrical contractor make sure we are doing everything correctly before buying a hot tub.

I might give it a try this fall.

Bay Kid,

One word of caution, if the hot tub has been sitting for a while you need to make sure it is safe to bath in. If you have never had one of these, I would suggest getting one of the pool treatment firms to come out and check everything, bacteria levels, PH, chlorination level, hardness, etc. While we use T&D Pool and Spa, there are several others, and the maintenance is fairly straight forward, and I am considering starting to do this myself. Even though you mentioned that you drain the spa, there is still water in the pumps, filters, and some of the pipes, so you could still have bacteria after filling with fresh water, better to be safe than sorry.
And I agree with Golfing Eagles, these are addictive.

:icon_wink: "220/221 Volts Whatever it takes." Michael Keaton

I would definitely have someone get this started for many reasons. Thank you for the advice.

If for some reason you still want to rid yourself of this nasty, vile, cement pond I know of a perfect place for it. If you decide to keep it I'll give you a hand getting it running, Mr. Tinker is 100% correct and so is GE, addictive for certain.

Resales. Byers beware. Make sure if you're home you are buying has hot tub make sure it been premitted. House I brought had hot tub, after signing going through paper work and not knowing all the rules noticed the paperwork had the box unchecked for hot tub. So, don't trust sales to be up and up. IMO they were hiding something or I didn't get good title search? It looks like it was installed up to code, but l'm not expert on code in Florida. Just saying take the time to read all them pages you are signing. Mine is 110 and outside I don't know if that makes difference or not looks like it been installed since the home was built?

You are absolutely correct, we bought a hot tub/spa with installation. Found out 18 months later the spa permit and the electrical permits were never pulled. When I went to the building department to fix this, I found out this has occurred many times, therefore, I have learned my lesson, I CHECK AND VERIFY that all permits are pulled and completed.

Thank you

We have a 110 hot tub. Just plugs in the regular plug. :coolsmiley: