We are hopefully within a couple weeks of having our pool finished, and have a circular 7'spa with a half circle ledger stone spillway with 6 jets evenly spaced around the spa. Also, the bench varies in height, but is continuous around the spa.

Our pool is finished except for spray deck and we have a spa with a spillway and 6 jets spaced around the spa and our bench also varies in height but is continuous I assume that is for short or taller people so don't know what your PB is talking about here is a pic of my spa as of today it was filled with water yesterday so we are not ready for anyone to get in it yet but thought you might like to see it

Our PB suggested no seating on the spillover wall, his reason was for leg room. Our spa was going to be large enough for us not to worry about the lost seating, and now that it's in I can certainly see that it does give a lot more leg room. But do what YOU want. I, too, would be a little concerned over going from 6 to 4 person seating. It can be done with seating/jets on the spillover wall.

newpool, the pic of your pool is beautiful! My favorite pic of yours, yet! I'm so jealous that you are done and only started 1 day before we did. But it's nice to visualize what we have to look forward to!!! The water color is really nice, I guess the chemicals may not be quite settled yet but it's obviously producing a gorgeous color!

Thank you all soooo much for your help. I'm pretty much telling him that we want 2 more jets on that wall and the bench made over there as well. Our spillway is going to probably be 2-3 times larger then the one in the picture because we are doing a rock spill way and it would just take up so much room. If he's never done it before he's just going to have to learn! If anyone else has any picture of their pool with a spill way and seating under that spillway I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!! :)

New Pool - I have a question for you about the size of your spa. How big is it? My PB says his standard is 6' round, but that seems a bit small for me. Have you used your spa yet? Do you think there would be enough leg room to fit people all the way around the spa? Also, what does your bench height range from? I like this idea since I'm 6'1" and my partner is 5'8". :)

it is the standard 6Â round spa with 6 jets, raised 12" above the pool with a 2Â 6" spillway we haven't gotten in it yet because of we were told to wait awhile till plaster and acid and chemicals have all did whatever they are suppose to do but anyway I do not know the height of the bench and it is not in my paperwork but it looks like a good idea due to people are of all different heights and they could find a comfty spot themselves and it looks like plenty of leg room but I don't think more than 4-5 people should sit in it or it would be too tight a fit since no one can sit where the spillway is in mine and there is a higher bench you can see in the picture guess that is for a little kid or a tall drink!! there is water covering it.
talk to your pb or maybe someonelse on this site knows they may put this kind of bench in all spa's I just don'tknow...good luck with everything.

Newpool,

I think that tall part in your spa is the step into it :). Thanks for your info, I do appreciate it. We are going to look at pools soon, and when I do that I'll get a better idea how many people can fit into the spa.

~Lee

Thanks I had no idea you can tell I know a lot about spas!
good luck on you search I wish I had known about this site before I started I might would have known what to look for and what to stay away from but we still love our pool and spa so it worked out anyway.