We didn't want to have to repair or buy another one of those expensive old-school hot tub covers, so I'll show you how to make a cheaper DIY hot tub cover that can be rolled up using closed cell foam rubber (XLPE) and 2x3 cedar slats. You can do this yourself and replace your old water-logged hot tub cover.

--Here is closed cell foam on Amazon (you might need 2 pieces): [ Ссылка ]
Here are links to the hardware you can use for building your hot tub cover (you will need to count how many you want to use because these boxes might not have enough):
--Stainless Steel fender washers: [ Ссылка ]
--Stainless Steel screws: [ Ссылка ]

If you don't feel like doing all of this work and want to just buy a "traditional" hot tub cover, here is a link, you quitter! (just kidding!) [ Ссылка ]

(Please note: If you click on a link above and buy something, I will receive a small commission that helps me make more DIY repair videos like this, so thanks!)

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I also have a video on how to fix a leaking hot tub pump, like my Aqua Flo master XP2 wet end: [ Ссылка ]

Here is a video on how to buff out the fiberglass of your hot tub with a HF Polisher:
[ Ссылка ]

Bottom line is you can make one of these for a lot less than a new traditional hot tub cover, and it looks kid of cool and different from other ones.

Here's a transcript for this video:

So, we picked up a free hot tub on Craigslist, but it had one of those old-school hot tub covers that was really worn out and really heavy. And so I looked online at some different ideas, and I'm gonna try doing one with a closed cell kind of rubber cover that will have cedar planks as a stabilizer so it doesn't just dip into the top of the water and so we can just roll it up. So I'll show you what it looks like once I lay it out. So here's the rubber mat material that I bought. It's very similar I think it's in the same kind of material they sell as

yoga mat or the mat that they put underneath and in a gym where you're working out. I cut this--it came in a 16 foot roll. I think I bought it at 16 feet, you can get at different lengths but I believe it's like 60 inches wide by whatever length you need. and then I cut cut it and then took gorilla tape and made the seam. I sprayed the seam with 3M 90 spray adhesive right here where it joins right there where it joins and then I cut another strip for the bottom as one more measure so the water doesn't get through and I sprayed that with 3M 90

I'm showing it's supposed to also really retain the heat better than those old school ones, so the next thing I'm going to show you is how I put the cedar out to hold it all. It's going to be "spray adhesive-ed" to the rubber, and then it's also going to be screwed up from the underside with stainless steel screws and washers. Okay, so I have this kind of roughed in.

I put a spar urethane over the cedar-- it's not perfect --ran a little bit, but it looks a lot better than those other kind of covers you see for a hot tub.
We need to paint this too and put new steps down but i think it's going to be a pretty nice look to it.

So, I think that's -- I'll show this one when it's finished too, or I mean I'll show you when I when I add some of the screws underneath, and we'll just see how it looks and I'll also try to give an update a few months down the line after winter and everything to kind of show what it looks like after weathering and and in the in rain and snow. So I'm making this hot tub cover I'm spraying 3M 90 which is a spray adhesive. I'm spraying it on the back of this. This is the initial kind of thing to stick it all together. I'm going to do a bunch of these I'm just going to stick it down to the top of this and then I'm going to finish it off with stainless steel screws and washers. I've got about these many stuck down. I'll just show you quick what I'm doing. I'm using this (this is my son Connor, he's helping me) 3M high strength 90 contact adhesive. Basically, you spray this down I use about this much

Then you let it sit for a couple minutes just like contact cement it has to dry a little bit to get its full tackiness. I want to get a good coating

Then, the next thing I'll show is how I do the screws and the stainless steel washers to hold it all fully fastened. You want stainless because stainless won't rust when it comes in contact with water (which it's going to be coming in contact with water). You don't want it even galvanized. You don't want galvanized. It isn't going to be as good as stainless-- just spend the extra few bucks to buy stainless, okay?

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