The best Hot Tubs in the world use the most advanced controls in the industry which are acknowledged to be made by Balboa. These have the, state of the art, soft â„¢ touch controls whereby all the functions are conveniently located at your finger tips. By utilizing Balboa’s patented software and deign with stat e of the art materials and components Balboa’s M7 technology provides you with a more reliable heating and control system.

Smart sensor technology

• Sensors monitor each other via soft ware to regulate spa functions such as water flow temperature etc

• Assures a proper operating environment for the heating element

• Multiple high safety systems

• All safety functions are always in action

• Eliminates excessive cycling

• Detects flow restrictions such as a dirty or blocked filter

• Minimizes the build up of calcium in the heater element.

Imagine having your very own personal masseuse to direct which muscles and tendons to massage. A spas massage sequencer will allow you to control Jet Patterns, placement and speed so that you can easily pinpoint the area of your body to massage.

This is what you should expect from a hot tub Jacuzzi with modern technology

Maximum Turbo charging:-

• The Jets provide a vigorous massage to loosen those tight knotted muscles and increase blood and oxygen circulation which helps to bring nutrients to sore muscles and joints Medium Turbo charging:-

• This reduces the volume of forced air which is injected into the water for a mid-range level of massage

Low turbo charging:-

• This level produces a low level of forced air and water mix in order to soothe tired and aching muscles back to health.

Hydro boost Level:-

• Injects a mild level of air into the water in order to provide an invigorating massage.

Hydro-Massage Level:-

• Provides a pure warm stream of water to help soothe muscles, ligaments and tendons and increases the blood flow and oxygen circulation round the body.

Ultra Wave Lounger

• Probably the best spas in the world have an Ultra Wave Lounger which is designed to massage the shoulders, full back, thighs, calves and feet. This kind of lounger with 54 Jets just in one seat provides a pulsating wave massage one to two rows at a time from ones neck right down to ones toes. Seven function programmable controls provide seven massage patterns at three variable speeds over your body.

Wave Max Seat â„¢

• The wave max seat ™ has 20 jest in one Seat alone that stair step five streams of water one at a time ,up and down your back thereby providing the sensation of gentle finger massage massaging those tired and aching muscles.

Foot Massager

• Strategically placed 14 nozzle jets allows a constant flow to all 14 nozzles providing an invigorating massage to a wide area of the feet. Ideal for Golfers and those walk a lot.

Neck & Shoulder Massage

• The contoured wrap around neck rest has two directional Jets that allow warm jetted water to be directed to various locations of the neck and shoulders to sooth neck and shoulder tension.

These are just some of the ideas and technology available today in the latest Jacuzzi Hot Tub designs that are available. If you are looking for a spa and this kind of technology is bot available then you are probably looking at last years or even the last decades model or perhaps a cheap import.

Powerful, loud lawn mower brands have been showing lawns who’s boss for decades. But now contraptions that couldn’t cut butter without a good shove are quietly — really quietly — making a comeback.

Manual Honda lawn mowers, long the 98-pound weaklings of the tool shed, are being pushed around more yards all over the country.

James Gibbs, assistant manager of Pleasants Hardware at 2024 W. Broad St., estimates that sales of the manual mowers are up nearly 20 percent.

“Especially here in the Fan District, where people don’t have big yards,” Gibbs said.

Aimee Perron Seibert and her husband, Randy Seibert, got a manual mower for their Church Hill yard because the device takes up little space in their shed and it’s lightweight.

“I can carry it with one hand through the house to the front yard,” Aimee said. “Plus, it didn’t make sense to get an electric or gas-powered mower for such a miniscule lawn.” The Seiberts also are glad that they don’t have to bother with gasoline, oil or extension cords.

The only disadvantage?

“I can’t ride it to the convenience store,” she said.

One of the few U.S. companies that makes the reel-type mowers reports an increase in sales.

“It’s phenomenal,” said Teri McClain, inside sales administrator at the 112-year-old American Lawn Mower Co. in Shelbyville, Ind. “Sales continue to rise every year.”

Phenomenal might be a little strong. Exact statistics aren’t available, but McClain figures U.S. consumers buy 350,000 manual mowers in the U.S. each year — most made by her company. That is just a fraction of the 6 million gas-powered walk-behind mowers that hit the market last year.

Still, that number is about 100,000 more than were sold just five years ago and seven times as many as the estimated 50,000 a year sold in the 1980s, McClain said.

American Lawn Mower was one of about 60 domestic manufacturers of manual mowers at the end of World War II, when power mowers began taking over the industry, McClain said. Other manufacturers make the manual mowers outside the U.S.

Among the benefits of manual mowers, Gibbs said, are their environmental friendliness and the clean, close cut they provide.

The lawn mowers are also appealing because they are inexpensive — around $200 — and simple to operate.

They look different than the kind invented in England in the 1830s to take over a job that once belonged to scythe-wielding people or hungry sheep. And with the use of lighter metals and plastic, they’re a lot lighter than the heavy iron and wood mowers some baby boomers remember pushing around.

But they work the same way they always did: Just push them (fe: John Deere Lawn Mowers) and they cut.

Luckily for the manual mower business, one whole segment of the population isn’t enamored of power tools or worried about looking wimpy: women.

“Two out of three people buying manual mowers were female,” said Terry Jarvis, president of Sunlawn Inc., a Fort Collins, Colo.-based company that’s been selling the mowers for 10 years and making its own for two.

“Women like the simplicity of the lawn mower machines, the fact that they work,” he said. “I constantly hear women commenting, ‘I love the useful exercise.’”

Cameron Atkins, a zone manager at the Richmond Lowe’s store at 1640 W. Broad St., said he saw no noticeable increase in the sales of reel mowers. But he added that the mower’s most common buyers are senior citizens, who like its ease of use.

Besides the personal enjoyment you’ll get from a prettier yard, landscaping adds more value than almost any other home renovation.

A recent Michigan State University study found that depending on where the house is located, high-quality landscaping adds 5 percent to 11 percent to its price.