Hot Tub Forum
Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: eightisenough on August 17, 2007, 12:05:40 pm
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At the risk of sounding dumb, I have a question about my lounge.
When I'm in it with the jets going, I float a little. My butt and feet float. Is that the way it's supposed to be? I can hold on to a handrail and keep myself in place. With the jets off, I am more weighted down.
It just feel a little odd.
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the more flat your lounger is the more apt you are to float up. perhaps a counter weight in you lap, like a leg weight. good luck
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Lounge floating is pretty typical for smaller people. Like loosenupspas said the more contoured the lounge the less likely you are to float. My favorite lounges were the ones that I was able to brace my feet up against the foot jets. Like the one in the J-480.
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I've got a Sudance Cameo. I'm not small, 5' 11" 200, I'll expirement. I can brace my feet and tat keeps me in place more.
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I've got a Sudance Cameo. I'm not small, 5' 11" 200, I'll expirement. I can brace my feet and tat keeps me in place more.
Same tub. I'm 5'11 185. I don't float, but my wife does. She likes the therapy seat better anyway...
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Might also be the specific person. Fat floats easier than muscle. That could account for some folk......
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Did you wet test the lounger before you purchased the spa? Most people think the lounger is great idea until they float out of it. Some folks float and other don't. I believe it's a density issue. I don't float out of our lounger but my wife does. She rarely uses the lounger while it's my favorite seat.
Good luck with your new spa. The Cameo is a great model.
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Doc has a thing he made called a "Lap Belt" that you can fill with marbles and keep by the spa. When your in the lounge you set it in your lap and it keeps you in place.
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Turn down the air or reduce some of the flow to the jets.
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Obtain a nylon stocking. Add marbles. Drape it over your waist while in the lounger. Leave it in the spa when you exit. Problem solved.
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great answers, thanks. you sure it is not the reverse? maybe I have too many muscles and not enough fat?
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great answers, thanks. you sure it is not the reverse? maybe I have too many muscles and not enough fat?
The lower your % of body fat the less you will float.
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it was wishful thinking on my part
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For what it's worth. I had issues with floating. Two nice loungers that I did not float in were the Coleman and the Resort by Artesian. I just decided on another spa with open seating that I liked better.
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This was one of the reasons we got the Coleman...I don't float out of the lounger, even with the jets and the air pump on full blast, and despite my natural buoyancy ::) Not to mention it was on the very short list of tubs that had a lounger I actually fit in.
The wife will float, but she can use the overhang in the footwell of the lounger to lock herself in, or turn the jets down.
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Coleman has lowered the center of gravity in its loungers and that is why floating in greatly reduced. The glass reinforced polymer shell is the key as it shaped differently than that other stuff....I don't want to rebeat the beaten horse but it is one of the benefits of Thermo-lock insulation verses that other way. Glass reinforced polymer can be shaped in ways that other concept cannot. And the 481 is a comfortable tub too...........
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...and if you don't normally soak "au naturel", give it a try. A slick bathing suit covering your bottom can cause you to "slip" in a lounger effectively "floating" off.
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Hmmm, good advice. I'm not so sure the dealers I wet tested spa's at would have gone for the "au naturel" wet test. ;)
Although, one dealer did offer wine and cheese, if the test was after hours. ::)
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Hmmm, good advice. I'm not so sure the dealers I wet tested spa's at would have gone for the "au naturel" wet test. ;)
Although, one dealer did offer wine and cheese, if the test was after hours. ::)
Well, you could just give yourself a good "wedgie" while wet testing to increase the "bun to acrylic potential"... ::)
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[size=14]Yuck!!!! [/size]
What an uncomfortable way to wet test a hot tub!!! I would imagine it would be even more uncomfortable for the men! ;D ;D ;D
I didn't need to use "au natural" or a "wedgie" to NOT float in the Artesian or the Coleman. (Even though I didn't purchase one. It's just an honest observation. I found both spa's very well made and comfortable.IMHO.)
Yup, it's nice to to soak in the buff but, there are times that folks have people in the spa that are very uncomfortable with the way they were born; naked. So, bathing suits are in order.
I can see asking them (folks that do not soak in other's spa's naked) to do a wedgie to stay put in the lounger..... :-?...Wow, what a novel concept!!!! :D :D :D