A Spa Cover / Hot Tub Cover is like a Refrigerator Door

Sometimes when you think you have heard every analogy about your work you get struck by a simple but brilliant illustration for  what we provide.

Friday morning I was listening to Brian, a Jedi Spa Technician at HotTubWorks.com, conduct a training on new spa packs.   One of the customer service team members asked a simple question, “How quick will a new spa pack heat up the spa?” which I thought was good question indicating they were earnestly learning about the technical side of our work.   Brian answers the question with an answer most of us know well, ” How quickly the hot tub heats up depends on the cover,”  the answer causes the 14 people in the training to nod with common understanding how important the spa cover / hot tub cover is for retaining heat.  But then Brian states ” A hot tub cover / spa cover is like a refrigerator door,  an old spa cover is just like leaving the refrigerator door open.”  Now I should admit, I love a good analogy more than average guy, but I thought that was just about the best example in simple terms I had ever heard for a spa cover.  Spare me the over scientific explanations of how the r-factor slouches with time and how the moisture embeds itself in the foam cores to mitigate the efficiency, give me the straight forward stomach based analogy for what we do……because in my house when kids run wild “close the fridge door” makes sense to me, just like get a new spa cover does as well. Thanks Brian.