Andrew Y.
Yelp
I bought an Artesian Island Series (Antigua) hot tub 7-years ago and just experienced a near disaster that could have changed our lives forever--it caught on fire!!
I lived in my hot tub every day, up until 3-weeks ago when while watering my garden, I noticed a cloud of smoke near the back of my farm house. My spa sits on a concrete platform, under a wooden deck, which is attached to the house and that's where the smoke was coming from. My wife screamed "fire" as she went to investigate. I came running up the hill toward the house and saw a bright red flame, shooting out of the side of the spa. I grabbed the garden hose, my wife grabbed a fire extinguisher and we put out the fire, but not before it burned a 12 x 6 hole through the thick plastic, catching the side of the tub on fire.
The retailer I bought the spa from came to investigate, along with the insurance folks, and the cause of the fire seems to be one of the LED units that light the inside of the unit. Apparently, there was a short, that ignited the insulation and started to melt the plastic, which also caught on fire.
If we wouldn't have been home, our whole house would have burned down, killing 3-dogs, and burning through the forest in which we live, VERY SCARY!
I don't know what this means for Artesian, the manufacturer, but according to all the "experts", this sort of thing happens very rarely, so the odds are vastly against lightning striking us twice. The only advice I have to other owners is TURN YOUR TUB OFF WHEN YOU LEAVE THE HOUSE!!