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I don't really have much to add. Someone has already asked if you are really Jim. Great question. If you aren't then you accidently sounded like him, and no offense is meant.)
I find the responses fascinating. I raise a concern after reading about the seven year old grand daughter of Secretary of State Jim Baker dying while in a portable hot tub while along side an adult who could not free her. The responses are insulting rather than substantive. That's fine, I'll discuss the issue with the different dealers around me. To those who don't take offense to my question, maybe you can read the consumer product safety commission report and hopefully the problem has been fixed. I have eight children and think I am figuring out how to watch them.
Yea but it could happen Chas, if you wernt watching your kids for a couple hours whiles they played in the hot tub!!
How? Keep in mind that HS still has TWO standpipes per pump, so even if the filters are removed, then the standpipes, and then the fact that the openings are now under two feet of water at the bottom of a very protected space - they still have the safety of being doubled up so if one is blocked somehow the pump can draw from the other one.I know you are trying to tell it like it is, but IMO this is a very safe system. To me, it is the safest one on the market. And to the original poster - please take a second or two to do a cut and paste for us poor dumb 'shills' so we can see what part of any of those articles you linked to indicate that any of the incidents involved a self-contained hot tub? Please.You are shopping and are concerned about safety. And of course, to you that seems totally reasonable. I agree. What seems to have escaped your thinking is that before I put everything I own on the line by way of a lawsuit from one or more of my customers - let alone the personal aguish of being part of a personal tragedy on the part of one of my customers - I have done the homework and made the same choice. I just have the lives of hundreds of my customer's kids riding on it, and the financial future of my own family as well. Sort of puts the onus on me to be sure the product I take to market is the very safest it can be.And to the poster who mentioned that having the water go through one point - the filter weir - I would ask you to try one. Go to a HS dealer, take your finger and hold the weir up in it's track while the pump or pumps is/are running. It takes a few seconds for the water level in the filter area to drop and the suction is automatically broken.This is a safe system. 8-)
So based on what you are saying HS is the safest and Caldera, the other tub line you sell, is a death trap - I think selling both you should write Caldera a letter and tell them they really should get on the ball and copy their sister tub. You should STOP selling Caldera since HS is the safest on the market ... you wouldn't want to get sued based on the fact that you are knowingly selling a death trap! You've just admitted to the fact that the HS system is the safest on the market barring none.I think I need to visit California and buy me a Caldera ... any California Lawyers here?
Ya know Chas, I like you but this dribble is nonsence. I can't speak of all manufacturer's tubs but the ones that I've seen have all been safe. HS has nothing over any other tub EXCEPT PRICE!!!So based on what you are saying HS is the safest and Caldera, the other tub line you sell, is a death trap - I think selling both you should write Caldera a letter and tell them they really should get on the ball and copy their sister tub. You should STOP selling Caldera since HS is the safest on the market ... you wouldn't want to get sued based on the fact that you are knowingly selling a death trap! You've just admitted to the fact that the HS system is the safest on the market barring none.I think I need to visit California and buy me a Caldera ... any California Lawyers here?