Placement is KEY! I just went through a nightmare placing my Sundance at our new home in Dover. Our deck is not overly large so we decided to have a custom patio built of stone pavers next to it. After spending thousands on the stonework I had the tub delivered and set in place. The electrician came out and would not do the job, there has been a change to the national electric code (NEC 2005) that states that in this situation there must be a grid of copper bonding material under the patio to bond the tub to, this must extend 3 feet around the tub. The patio would then be layed on top of this and the tub connected to it.
We tried a few electricians, not all of them had even heard of the rulebut verified it with the electrical inspector. At this point we were faced with ripping up the patio, doing the rather expensive copper grid and reinstalling the patio, or moving the tub altogether. We chose to move it... It could have turned a $500 electrical job into $3500-4000 between patio rework and extra electrical.
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