Hot Tubs & Swim Spas for El Cajon Shoppers

Why El Cajon Shoppers Visit Our Escondido Showroom

El Cajon sits in a valley in East County San Diego, ringed by foothills, with San Diego and La Mesa to the west, Spring Valley south and Santee north.

We don't have a branch in El Cajon. The showroom that serves you is Escondido, at 499 N. Hale Ave, which is where you can see these running with water in them. Call that store direct on (760) 683-2171.

El Cajon Neighborhoods We Deliver To

Fletcher Hills is the neighborhood most clearly inside the city. Two others come up constantly and both need care, because getting them wrong changes who issues your permit. Bostonia is a neighborhood partly inside the north-eastern part of the city, but the census-designated place called Bostonia lies entirely outside the city limits, covering most of the unincorporated area north of Broadway and east of State Route 67. Rancho San Diego is not in the city at all: it is a separate census-designated place in unincorporated county, with a 2020 population of 21,858. Downtown El Cajon is the civic core and holds The Magnolia.

The Homes and Backyards in El Cajon

The 1950s decade is the defining one. Going from 5,600 residents to 37,618 in ten years produced exactly what that era produced everywhere in southern California: single-storey tract houses on generous, flat, rectangular lots, with the house set well back from at least one side property line. For getting a spa into a back yard that is close to the ideal case, and it is why East County deliveries tend to go smoothly. The older fabric around the downtown core is tighter and older, on smaller parcels. The hillside edges where the valley meets the surrounding foothills are the exception in the other direction, with grade and terraced pads rather than flat ground, and the usable flat area often smaller than the lot looks.

Why El Cajon Homeowners Choose a Hot Tub or Swim Spa

El Cajon is named for the box, and the shape is the point: a valley ringed by foothills, which is where the name and the local nickname both come from. It incorporated on November 12, 1912 and then grew explosively in one decade, from 5,600 people in 1950 to 37,618 in 1960, which tells you most of what you need to know about its housing. The 2020 census counted 106,215 people across about 14.5 square miles. The agricultural past is recent enough to still show in the lot pattern, grapes and avocados and citrus into the first half of the twentieth century. Being inland and ringed by hills, El Cajon runs hotter in summer and colder at night than the coast, which is exactly the climate that makes a spa get used.

Getting a Spa Into an El Cajon Backyard

Generally the easiest of the four areas we have added, for one reason: the housing is mostly 1950s and 1960s tract, which means a real side yard rather than a modern setback. Measure it anyway, because eaves, the gas meter, a condenser pad and fence posts still come off the nominal width, and below roughly 36 to 40 inches of genuine clearance a cart will not pass. The two things that change the job here are grade and jurisdiction. Where the valley rises into the foothills, the back yard may be terraced and the flat pad smaller than it appears. And if your address is Rancho San Diego, or the unincorporated part of Bostonia, your permit comes from San Diego County rather than from the City of El Cajon, which is worth establishing before anyone pulls one.

Using It Year-Round in El Cajon

Inland, at 433 feet, and running to greater extremes than coastal San Diego. January averages a high of 69.3 and a low of 42.5. August averages 88.6 and 64.7. Rainfall is 11.63 inches. The record high is 114, set on September 5, 2020. Those forty-degree January nights are the real argument for a spa out here.

Compare Models In Person

Financing is available through Synchrony for qualified buyers, subject to credit approval. The full lineup is below — every model is at the Escondido showroom or can be brought in.