The modern bathroom in the American home is quickly becoming something almost analogous to an in-home mini day spa with all of the luxurious and pampering bathroom fixtures and features available on the market. It is not uncommon to find in newly built homes a master bathroom that is as large as a high-end kitchen or living room, and the most opulent room in the house. One of the most popular features of a newly built or recently remodeled luxury bathroom is the aquatic tub.
An aquatic tub is the next generation of the jetted bathtub that became so popular over the last decade. There are two major divisions of aquatic bathtubs; those for indoor, bathroom use, and those for outdoor use, such as hot-tubs. Due to the expense and time involved in running, maintaining and cleaning an outdoor hot-tub style aquatic tub, the indoor bathroom variety tend to be more popular.
However, intended for bathroom use can be pricey to run as well, and since most people don't want to pay day spa prices to use their own bathrooms, taking the energy efficiency of any model of aquatic tub into consideration is an important part to purchase. There are many features that can affect the overall energy efficiency of an aquatic bathtub, such as the quality of insulation, the placement of the tub within the bathroom, and whether the tub is designed to recycle water through the jets or heat fresh water.
The best way to determine the energy efficiency, and therefore the real cost of owning an aquatic tub, is to look for the Energy Star symbol on any tub you may be considering. If the symbol is not featured prominently anywhere on the tub display, consider looking into alternative tubs.
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