The Basic Steps For Making a Spa Cover

The Basic Steps For Making a Spa Cover

There are a variety of Portable-Spa and tubs available for purchase. However, before you purchase your own, you have to weigh your options first. You need to make sure that your decision of purchasing your own spa or tub will be to your advantage. If you are purchasing it only for minimal use, you have to get a very good cover for it.

A very good cover is something that will protect your tub or Portable-Spa against external factors and dirt. There are a lot of quality tubs and spas around that already includes spa covers with them. Actually, you can make your own simple cover as well. This article will be dealing more about how to make your own spa cover.
Step one is to typically measure your spa dimensions.

Remember that the length and width of fabric as well as the sizes of the wood strips will be dependent on the spa dimension. Don’t buy too much of your materials. It is recommended to get the actual measure of the spa. Don’t just have an estimate since it might be incorrect.

Step two is to shop and gather your materials. Well, before anything else, your tools for cutting the wood and the fabric should also be handy. Set everything down in an organized manner so that you will not a hard time in finding the materials and tools. Don’t take out the whole tool box. Take out the tools that you will be using. Make sure to choose a work place that is away from crowded areas to avoid accidents and unwanted incidents since you will be using your building tools.

Step three is you have to build a wood frame. All you have to do is to connect the wood strips using a nail gun or a staple gun. Since you have already measured the dimensions of the spa, you will not a hard time connecting the wooden strips. It is just like connecting the dots. The corner connections should be strongly attached to keep the fabric in place. Make sure that the wood connection will not be moved by any type of force exertion may it be external or internal so as not to blow your spa cover out.

The last and final step it to stretch the fabric until it reaches the wooden frames. Nail it into the wooden frame to keep it in place and for neat and orderly look, you could wrap around the fabric to the wooden frame. You have to make sure that you will position the fabric over the wooden frame before locking it in place. Then at last, you have made your own spa cover in no time.

Well, there are a lot o specialized way on how to do a spa cover. The one mentioned above are just some of the materials used for making a simple one. You can actually use metals as frames. Well, it is still your preference on what material to use and the type of structure you will make based on the size and form of your spa.