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The Part of the Backyard You Use in January

Built into the pool with a spillway, or standing on its own pad by the back door. Both start with the same question: who is getting in, and how often?

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Two routes

Built in, or set down

They solve the same craving and almost nothing else about them is alike.

In-ground spa

Formed as part of the pool structure, usually raised, usually spilling into the main body of water. It is a design decision as much as a comfort one, because a raised spa wall gives the whole backyard a vertical element and a sound.

  • Shares the pool's plumbing, heating and automation
  • Spillway keeps water moving, which helps the pool as much as the spa
  • Tile, coping and interior finish match the pool exactly
  • Has to be designed in at the start, not added later
Raised in ground spa spilling into a custom Houston swimming pool
Standalone hot tub installed on a finished patio in Houston

Standalone hot tub

A self-contained unit on its own pad, with its own heater and controls. It can be in the backyard in a fraction of the time, it moves with you if you ever go, and it does not require a pool to exist at all.

  • Installed in days rather than designed in over weeks
  • Needs a level pad and a dedicated electrical circuit, and that is largely it
  • Seat layouts and jet configurations vary far more than people expect
  • Cover quality is the difference between using it in February and not

We carry and install from the leading hot tub and spa manufacturers, and the honest starting point is a conversation about how many people realistically get in at once and where you want to be looking while you do.

Worth saying plainly

A spa gets used more than the pool does

In this climate the pool has a season and the spa does not. From November through March the spa is the reason anybody goes outside after dark, and it is the single most used piece of water in most of the backyards we build. Clients who treat it as an afterthought are usually the ones asking to add one two years later.

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