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Re: What to do with an old Hot tub cover?
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2008, 01:38:26 pm »
I would get yours dried out and try to reseal the inner plastic to get some more life out of the cover. When it dries is it light weight again?
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Re: What to do with an old Hot tub cover?
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Re: What to do with an old Hot tub cover?
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2008, 02:35:50 pm »
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Because the water has soaked into the foam. Foam starts to break down.

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Re: What to do with an old Hot tub cover?
« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2008, 06:12:32 pm »
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By the way, its nice to have a cover 1/4th the weight of the old one.  I'll wait till this weekend when I get the lock latches relocated and the cover lifter on it and post a picture.  I am impressed by the hinge stitching.  Other than that I've been so busy, but we have gotten out there every night after dark.
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Re: What to do with an old Hot tub cover?
« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2008, 06:28:10 pm »
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I would get yours dried out and try to reseal the inner plastic to get some more life out of the cover. When it dries is it light weight again?

Yep, light as it has ever been...

My details were an adjunct to the original posters comments.  Not to hijack this thread but I do plan on resealing mine and would be interested in any recommendations as to how to go about it like...

  "just use saran wrap and tape it to the plastic that is still in tact" or "remove all existing plastic and  
   re-wrap this with all new saran wrap"
or  may even something like
   "pick up .015ml thickness plastic that you would normally use for painting and use it to recover the
   foam"  .  I do have about 50 square feet of this stuff so that would be my best option but also
   might be too heavy (or thick) to get the foam back into the vinyl cover?  That sucker is already pretty darn tight.
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Re: What to do with an old Hot tub cover?
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