Metal hot tub cover?

[Kevin Luttrell]

Anyone have a good recommendation for a company that provides metal hot tub covers? 

Or, side question, anyone who gets frequent bear visits and has a hot tub have a good strategy for keeping the bears from destroying your hot tub cover? 

Our cabin in the Smokies borders about 100 acres of undeveloped land and we get very frequent bear visitors, including moms with cubs every year. Our hot tub cover has been torn to pieces for the 2nd time in 2 years now and it's $500 to replace....

[Michael Baum]

Hey @Kevin Luttrell, so a purely metal cover would negate any insulating factor that a regular cover offers.

What you could do is grab a sheet metal guy. It should be pretty simple to have some galvanized sheet metal attached to a standard cover. 2 piece so it hinges. 18g or maybe 20g should do the trick without being too heavy.

You could also look at these - https://www.tuffspas.com/tuff-top-cover/ Supposed to be tough fiberglass covers. I am not sure what tubs they fit or if they fit only their tubs.

Here is another - https://www.smartopspacover.com/

And another - https://belitespacovers.com/

There are several options. I think the Be Lite covers are aluminum.