Anyone have a Hot Tub?

Being using ours nearly every day over Christmas break.

Tried it at 39c and it was very hot, had to keep moving to a half in half out seat.

Settled on 38c which is still hot but the temperature drops to 37-37.5c which is very nice, it loses 0.5c-1c per hour.

Have to say it was not cheap buy but absolutely love it.


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We both love it but I can easily lay in for 1-2 hours easily, love all the seats too as they all do different forms of massage. :)
 
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39. Like a monkey bath when you first get in but as soon as you get your shoulders under, it's lovely.
I don't use it that often but the missus is in it most days.
No snow down here, just rain so not overly enjoyable to sit in right now.
 
chaparral said:
The part i used to hate is when you get out and walk back into the house it freezing :D
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Fortunately ours is about a 5ft walk to the door, but it’s a bit chilly. Always the worst part. I’ve seen friends with hot tubs at the end of a garden - wouldn’t fancy the walk back in this weather. My wife wants a sauna that we can jump into first. As if the electricity bill isn’t already high enough.
 
chaparral said:
The part i used to hate when using my hot tub in the cold weather is when you get out and walk back into the house it freezing :D
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Yes even though it’s a short walk across the patio to be back inside I’ll still sit in the hot tub thinking about it for at least 10-15 minutes before making the move lol.
 
You are doing it all wrong, embrace the elements, this was my first hot tub its 15 years old in this picture, my late brother had it off me making it 25 years old now. It was very basic two benches either side 4 jets and a line of holes in the benches and base for an air blower, it was made bespoke from a company who installed health club spas. It was just set in a cedar surround and hard glued piping. Only ever cosy me about £200 in 15 years for a new pump :)

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The electricity bill has certainly gone up during the winter months. Difficult to pin down exactly, but must be roughly £50-60 extra a month. Not particularly fussed as we’ve used it ever few days, but the increase has been noticeable. Should even out over the summer I guess. I’d say it was costing us half that in the summer.
 
Anybody use digital water tester for hot tubs, if yes which one please ? So many on amazon not sure which to choose. I've used strips but really hard to tell what colour is what.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
The electricity bill has certainly gone up during the winter months. Difficult to pin down exactly, but must be roughly £50-60 extra a month. Not particularly fussed as we’ve used it ever few days, but the increase has been noticeable. Should even out over the summer I guess. I’d say it was costing us half that in the summer.
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I would say the hot tub adds another £1-1.50 per day to our electric cost when we do not use and upto £3 more when we do use it depending how long we are in it.
Now the weather is warming a little the above cost are reducing also tried the hot tub a couple of times in the daylight when the sun is out and noticed I dehydrate pretty fast and 38c is way to hot, 37c is better but can see as it gets warmer and Summer approaches we will probably settle on somewhere between 32-36c and maybe even cooler in the heat of Summer.
 
oggiet said:
Anybody use digital water tester for hot tubs, if yes which one please ? So many on amazon not sure which to choose. I've used strips but really hard to tell what colour is what.
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What's your budget? I have a Palintest Pooltest 9 that I use for work (I'm a service engineer for pools/spas/thermal suites), but the 3 and 6 are cheaper and more than suitable for a domestic tub. Palintest, Lovibond and Bayrol are good quality makes I've came across and used in both commercial and domestic settings.

Test strips are a waste of time as 99% of the time they will give incorrect results. I've been called out a huge number of times to customers to claim they are unable to adjust their chlorine or pH levels only for me to test their pool or spa and find out that they've massively overdosed.

If a photometer is too expensive, then look at comparators. They can be had cheap and are more accurate than test strips.

Edit: This is a great price for a hard case, extended range Pooltest 6 @ £311

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MTRY...abc_7YE96JFVV0X2NGKE53XS?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
 
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Does anyone have any thoughts about 13 amp v 32 amp hot tubs. We are considering a hot tub but I worry about electrical load on the house. We would end up with an ev charger, Air source heat pump and 32 amp hot tub and we only have an 80 amp main fuse for the house. Western Power won't upgrade main fuses to 100 amp anymore unfortunately.

I have read that the 13 amp tubs don't heat and jet at the same time but would the heat loss while the jets are on be noticeable?
 
Thats quite a sizeable jump.
I think ours is 16amp so only required installation of an isolator on a separate circuit.
I guess you could look at a new board....

Hot tubs stay hot for quite a while so shouldn't need to be heating constantly. The 13 amp versions tend to have only the 1 motor and fewer jets.
 
Thanks for the replies. It does seem that that the 13 amp tubs could be a good try and see step. They do tend to have fewer jets and either 1 or 2 motors and a circulation pump.

Interestingly, Blue Whale spas have a dual 13/32 amp tub: https://www.bluewhalespa.com/product/santa-cruz-v-hot-tub/

This can be run as either 13 or 32 amp giving an option for running a 32 amp supply if the electrical system can take it in future.
 
We had a separate fuse board, fitted and I ran 10mm amoured into the garden which goes to a mini consumer unit supplying a garden plug the garage and the hotub isolator. You won't draw 80amps on your house supply in one go so don't worry about that fuse being too small.
 
LiE said:
It's not an issue on ours, even being in there for 1 hour.
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Same, even for 2 hours sometimes. Depends on the ambient temperature and water temperature obviously. In the summer it doesn’t even cool down when it’s in the sun. Our electricity bill is high enough already too!
 
dale1uk said:
What's your budget? I have a Palintest Pooltest 9 that I use for work (I'm a service engineer for pools/spas/thermal suites), but the 3 and 6 are cheaper and more than suitable for a domestic tub. Palintest, Lovibond and Bayrol are good quality makes I've came across and used in both commercial and domestic settings.

Test strips are a waste of time as 99% of the time they will give incorrect results. I've been called out a huge number of times to customers to claim they are unable to adjust their chlorine or pH levels only for me to test their pool or spa and find out that they've massively overdosed.

If a photometer is too expensive, then look at comparators. They can be had cheap and are more accurate than test strips.

Edit: This is a great price for a hard case, extended range Pooltest 6 @ £311

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MTRY...abc_7YE96JFVV0X2NGKE53XS?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
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You have been so much help, thank you very much !!! Will look into all those options :)
 
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