Swimming Pools, Spas, and Hot Tubs – B26

General Information

ISPSC Definitions

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The following are the commonest phrases and definitions to be used with one- and two-family installations.

Barrier
A everlasting fence, wall, constructing wall, or mixture thereof that fully surrounds the pool or spa and obstructs the entry to the pool or spa. The time period “permanent” shall imply not with the ability to be eliminated, lifted, or relocated with out the usage of a software.

Exercise Spa (Also referred to as a swim spa)
Variants of a spa by which the design and development embrace particular options and gear to provide a water circulation meant to permit leisure bodily exercise together with, however not restricted to, swimming in place. Exercise spas can embrace peripheral jetted seats meant for water remedy, heater, circulation and filtration system, or is usually a separate distinct portion of a mix spa/train spa and may have separate controls. These spas are of a design and measurement such that they’ve an unobstructed quantity of water giant sufficient to permit the 99th Percentile Man as laid out in Pool & Hot Tub Alliance (APSP) 16 to swim or train in place.

Grade
The completed floor stage adjoining the constructing in any respect exterior partitions.

On-ground Storable Pool
A pool which may be disassembled for storage or transport. This consists of moveable swimming pools with versatile or nonrigid partitions that obtain their structural integrity via uniform form, a help body or a mix thereof, and that may be disassembled for storage or relocation.

Power Safety Cover
A pool cowl that’s positioned over the water space and is opened and closed with a motorized mechanism activated by a management change.

Residential Swimming Pool
A pool meant to be used which is accent to a residential setting and out there solely to the family and its friends. Other swimming pools shall be thought of public swimming pools for functions of this code.

• Type O. A non-diving residential pool.
• Types I-V. Residential swimming pools appropriate for the set up of diving gear by kind.

Safety Cover
A construction, cloth or meeting, together with attendant appurtenances and anchoring mechanisms, that’s briefly positioned or put in over a whole pool, spa or sizzling tub and secured in place in spite of everything bathers are absent from the water.

Spa
A product meant for the immersion of individuals in temperature-controlled water circulated in a closed system and never meant to be drained and crammed with every use. A spa often features a filter, an electrical, photo voltaic or gasoline heater, a pump or pumps, and a management, and may embrace different gear, reminiscent of lights, blowers, and water-sanitizing gear.

Self-Contained Spa
A factory-built spa by which all management, water heating and water-circulating gear is an integral a part of the product. Self-contained spas could also be completely wired or wire related.

Swimming Pool
Any construction meant for swimming, leisure bathing or wading that comprises water over 24 inches (610 mm) deep. This consists of in-ground, above-ground and on-ground swimming pools, sizzling tubs, spas, and fixed-in-place wading swimming pools.