16. In-Ground Spa and Spillover Spa Pool Combo
Introduction
The ultimate luxury combination pairs a spacious swimming pool with an elevated, bubbling hot spa that spills over a cascading glass or stone waterfall edge directly into the pool below.
What This Idea Means
This design focuses on therapeutic relaxation, multi-season usability, and auditory water artistry. It provides a soothing hot bubbling sanctuary right next to the cool swimming basin.
How to Make It
- Elevated Spa Shell: Design and pour a raised circular or square spa shell positioned slightly above the main pool water level.
- Spillway Construction: Create a precision-leveled spillway dam wall finished in glass tile or stacked stone where spa water cascades into the pool.
- Hydrotherapy Jets: Install ergonomic bench seating inside the spa equipped with adjustable directional hydrotherapy massage jets.
- Independent Heating: Equip the spa with a dedicated high-capacity gas heater and blower system so it can heat up independently from the main pool.
Tips and Variations
- Tip: Use a digital touch-screen automation system to switch your pool heater from eco-mode to spa-heating mode remotely via smartphone before you get home.
- Variation: Finish the spa interior in dark glass mosaic tiles that contrast beautifully against the lighter plaster of the main swimming pool.
Needs to Make That Thing
- Raised concrete spa and swimming pool combo shell
- Dedicated high-capacity gas pool/spa heater and blower
- Hydrotherapy water jets and air intake valves
- Glass tile or stone spillway dam wall