{"id":816,"date":"2016-10-23T22:58:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notsealed.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2023-07-16T02:59:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T02:59:26","slug":"diy-spa-cover-lifter-home-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notsealed.com\/diy-spa-cover-lifter-home-made.html","title":{"rendered":"DIY Spa Cover Lifter Home Made for $50 Metal Conduit Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Making a DIY Spa Cover Lifter is one of the most rewarding projects I have done for a while. Many people have asked how I made it, so here are the plans to make the DIY spa cover lifter for your hot tub or Jacuzzi. Plus it will save you heaps of money. Cost me about $50 in materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Make a Spa Cover Lifter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are a few plans and ideas on the net, with people making their own Spa Cover Lift, but many of those were made out of PVC conduit. This seemed a little too flexible to withstand the larger Spa Cover. I have an Oasis Spa cover which is 2.3m x 2.4m and is quite heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an electrician, I had a whole lot of spare PVC conduits, so I was able to make s prototype out of PVC conduit to get all the sizing correct. I just didn’t glue it together, so as to use the PVC conduit later on another project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought I would make the final product out of 20nb galvanized water pipe. Which is around 25mm or 1 inch in the imperial scale. This would give me the strength I needed, to move the spa cover from closed to open, on the side of the hot tub.<\/p>\n\n\n

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You will need a pipe bender to bend all of the right angles, or if you don’t have access to one, purchase the galvanized right-angle bends from a hardware store. You will need 6 at a few dollars each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spa Cover Lifter Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before I designed my Spa Cover Lifter, I looked at some of the retail spa cover lift retail products. Some were just not suitable for our location of the spa, and many were just overpriced for what they were. The closest I saw that I liked were the Covermate II<\/em><\/strong> and the Cover Rock-It<\/strong> Hot Tub Cover Lifter<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a few on Amazon that was interesting and cheap like the Bottom Mount classic cover lifter<\/a>\u00a0and this Hydraulic cover lifter by Zomofew<\/a> but I felt I could do better. Off to the drawing board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Materials needed for Spa Cover Lifter Parts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Depending on the size of your spa you may need to increase or decrease the materials needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n