[jimbo2012]

Found a pic I took last week of the type of install we would like to do.

[pooh]

Our inground spa came with the house. All windows and sliders that go on to the lanai where the spa is, are alarmed. Have three screen doors out of the lanai and cage and each has the handle high like you've seen previously. Not sure if county codes mandate the alarm or not, but when it comes time to insure your new beautiful home, you will be asked if you have a pool or spa. The alarm could help a little with insurance costs I would hope. Many have solar for heating pools or spas around the community. We deactivated the alarm for now since every time we opened one of the sliders, the alarm would blast until you reset the button on the alarm....most annoying.

[hotrodgirl]

That looks awesome, Jimbo! I hope you are able to add this at your build! I do have the alarms as posted above and it did reduce my insurance. As I do not have the birdcage up yet, I would assume the door latches would be as Pooh stated up high. I have had an outdoor hotub here in Chgo for the past 20 years or so. I did not get one in TV and am wondering if I will miss that. Likely I have room, but perhaps that might be another project down the line. Guess I need to get through this first year!! I hope it all works out for you! It will definitely be a nice addition!

[jimbo2012]

Ok, spoke to the building dept, if the spa is more than 2' deep all windows & doors leading into the area need to have a buzzer type system, and windows that are within 5' of the water must be tempered glass.

This is to make things child proof.

You do not need sealed architectural drawings just something reasonably drawn up to to indicate the plans.

So far not too complicated.

[hotrodgirl]

So, one step forward! Keep moving ahead and hopefully you can fit it into your build! Then it will be ready for a celebratory glass of champagne after the closing!

[LAshby50]

We are going the above ground spa route. The basic spa from T&D in-ground was not we were looking for. We went to Spa Kingdom on 441 and we are going with them post build.

[jane032657]

Originally Posted by LAshby50

We are going the above ground spa route. The basic spa from T&D in-ground was not we were looking for. We went to Spa Kingdom on 441 and we are going with them post build.

We put in an above ground swimspa, 20 ft long, 8 ft eide and 4 ft deep. Swimspa on one side, hot tub on the other, radio/ipod/cd, lights, propulsion jets, etc

[jimbo2012]

Well I just bought a 7x8 foot above ground spa with a bunch of jet heads I think like 50, at fair price.

I 'm working on sketching plans to cut away the existing cabinet and drop it into the lanai floor.

I'll have the builder extend the lanai concrete with a hole cut out for the spa to drop into add some short walls around two sides.

It should look like this for about $2500 all in.

The first pic on the left is a WP with an added 16' bird cage giving us a 50' long lanai, did U say Corona's

The next two pics R fiberglass or acrylic spas dropped into a concrete stucco design.