Being acquisitive...

[jay]

Someone in Redwood City (about 12 miles away) is selling a functional 6-person hot tub (incl. pump, heaters, filters) for about $450. That's tempting... my long-term plans for the back yard include a hot tub in one corner.

I should ask cjsmith how difficult it is to transport and install... electrical I can handle, but I'd hate to have to dig ditches 100' for water supply and drainage...

Maybe I could offer facility-borrowing privleges to anyone that could help me move it? I have to let the current owner know by tomorrow, she's moving.

Otherwise... today I've spent cleaning out the kid's bedroom. Such excitement... and I still have about a dozen LJ comments and emails that are awaiting reply.

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Wooo

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Ohhh DARN it all to heck! How in the world did you find that?

I am wired and ready to go for a hot tub but no hot tub. Granted I couldn't afford $450 right now if my life depended on it... but oooooohhh where did you find that at?

I am not sure about electrical, but it shouldn't be too expensive. I'd call around if you could.

[abz6598.livejournal.com]

Guy next door to me sells hot tubs and I've helped install a few. For what its worth:

None of the ones we did needed a water supply at the tub. You run a hose, fill tub, put hose away. Done.
To drain, theres an outlet that you can hook a hose to and then run it to wherever you want the thing to dump.

Biggest bitch is gonna be running 220 service to your tub location. You can do it yourself but for various reasons you'll probably want an electrician to do it.

Tub works best on a slab. Second choice, make a deck.

Make sure to get an insulated cover with it.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Damn. I wish we weren't renters. I'm sure that the moment we got a hot tub, we'd have to move for some reason.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That precisely matches my experience. My hot tub has no water feed, uses 220, is doing fine on a deck, has an insulated cover.

Brian, you asked also about transporting it. Mine is an eight-person tub, probably close enough to the one you're thinking of for comparisons to be reasonable. Mine weighs a thousand pounds empty. It is large enough that it was transported standing on edge, on a flatbed trailer. If you don't already have access to a trailer with straps and attachments, that's the first hurdle. Getting it off the trailer appeared to be easy for three guys. They used a swivel-wheel dolly to roll the thing to its final location. VERY handy, that dolly. Looked like it'd be worth making one even for a single use, it was that handy.

If you choose to buy the hot tub (and that sounds like a good price, cool!), it's worth spending some time sitting in the space where it will go, to determine how you want to rotate the tub so as to place your faaaavorite set of jets. We faced ours so our faaaavorite corners to sit in happen to have a view of the rising moon and the pine tree. :-)