My mate got one in his back garden in his midlife-crisis post-divorce bachelor pad. Cost him £10k. Sound system, lights, etc...
When he first got it I asked him how much it cost to run. He said "I dunno".
Turns out he didn't do the bills at his marital home, that was his wife. He also didn't know that he had to do meter readings. First 14 months of his lecky bills were on estimates, then he got called to do a meter reading. Got his proper bill shortly after. £9k.
Ouch. The tub is now drained, and nobody wants to buy the fvcker.
Risky gets around this by keeping his hot tub at ambient temperature and never turning the jets on. He should probably have called the OP "Tubs of stagnant water".
Christ. Can you imagine being hanners estate agent? They're all bullshitters but putting a spin on spunk and faeces has got to be a challenge for any of them.
Friends of ours spent £2k on a second hand hot tub (second hand - ewwww) shortly before the first massive electricity price hike. They used it a couple of times until they realised how effing expensive it was to run and haven’t used it since.
Hot tubs of the UK grubby sex pond variety are absolutely disgusting things. A proper Japanese ofuro fed with water from a hot spring is a glorious thing though.
I do love them - they are amazing to have drinks in, with friends, while it is cold outside.
That said, how much does it cost to run them for around 4 or 5 hours?
I once stayed in a very nice play in the Cotswolds that had a hot tub heated by burning wood - it worked really well and I imagine is by far the cheapest way to run way. Very nice smell from the burning wood too.
Confession from Bailey time - we bought an inflatable one for the end of the garden last summer. A week before the really hot spell arrived. I was v v v v v anti having it but my OH had always wanted one so i acquiesced.
Pros- in that hot weather going outside and standing in it in the afternoon was bliss. Getting it at around 7pm with a glass of wine was heaven.
Cons - we have little clawed kits who LOVE water, not an epic combination with an inflatable item. It survived. Just. Also, and this is the gross bit, it gets green algae in it, even with a cover on, so you have to clean it a LOT. Which is, as set out above, grimsville. Oh and the grass where it sat was terminated for months and only just grown back.
Maybe it will have developed a puncture over winter...
They're for the nouveaux riches and cash-rich chavs who drink Echo Falls so-called wines.
Bogans, as they're called in Australia.
If one had the cash and had to spend it on leisure products then an upright piano would be a better bet, and has more classe. That, plus piano lessons or self-teaching with books and on-line videos would still leave you more left over because there are also no water and electricity bills, plus paying someone to clean out the diarrhoea stains.
With a piano you will have a better calibre of friends rather than boisterous nouves, or people who behave like that/ who take advantage of your hospitality.
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Grubby sex ponds.
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Even better!
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risky swims in swimmers.
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My mate got one in his back garden in his midlife-crisis post-divorce bachelor pad. Cost him £10k. Sound system, lights, etc...
When he first got it I asked him how much it cost to run. He said "I dunno".
Turns out he didn't do the bills at his marital home, that was his wife. He also didn't know that he had to do meter readings. First 14 months of his lecky bills were on estimates, then he got called to do a meter reading. Got his proper bill shortly after. £9k.
Ouch. The tub is now drained, and nobody wants to buy the fvcker.
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guy I know put one in, but had to buy solar panels to heat it.
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Risky gets around this by keeping his hot tub at ambient temperature and never turning the jets on. He should probably have called the OP "Tubs of stagnant water".
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Yes, chum of mine got caught out in a similar way on the bills thing (no divorce involved in this case).
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Aka a ‘chav tank’
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I pay 12.6p per unit
for
my French nuclear electricity, ta.
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C Unit
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You in fuel poverty royalty? Shame.
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The partners in one department in my old shop used to all have hot tubs
they would drone endlessly about them, and sometimes go to each other’s houses to hang out in them
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Don’t you lot also have an app that shows you electricity usage automatically hour by hour? Comes as standard here…
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If ever there’s a place for dettol
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Risky lad, you're all over the place. Drunk so early?
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I’m glorious as always royalty. Sorry you’re too poor to have proper amenities in your property
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A cold outside bath is not an amenity it is an abomination. Please get some self respect.
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I’ll post a pic you can feast your eyes on in due course
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Please do. I'll get my geolocation team on it and we'll find out how much your gaff is worth.
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Good luck with that
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It’ll be a picture of my junk in the bubbles
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U ❤️ it
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🎣
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Hope you’ve got a good zoom.
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I'll need to employ a geolocater with a high powered microscope
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*high fives Jim*
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And you denied being a child earlier
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No I didn't, I said you were, by comparison, a mewling infant.
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Says the *throbber promising to send photo’s of his small fry to a stranger on the internet.
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Correction. A mewling infant with a hot tub.
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Royalty’s not a stranger Jim. He emails me all the time
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Not since I asked you to stop emailing me you feckin weirdo
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Got plenty from you over the weekend
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Do those of you with hot tubs have pampas grass and a special bowl for car keys?
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Lie
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I used to think hot tubs were fun. Then I grew up and it wasn’t the 90s anymore.
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You will deservedly acquire Legionaries Disease, nasty STD’s, or an ASBO from concerned neighbours.
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Enjoy farting in your baths to make bubbles….
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what are the thoughts on a little swedish sauna and outdoor icebath for post training recovery? can get quite pretty barrel ones these days.
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Hot tubs are great. until you think for a moment about how fooking rank they are.
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That's how Boris feels about his wives after they've been near him.
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Christ. Can you imagine being hanners estate agent? They're all bullshitters but putting a spin on spunk and faeces has got to be a challenge for any of them.
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Pissed women getting touchy with whatever they are closest to under the obscurity of bubbling water. Nooooo thank you
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Friends of ours spent £2k on a second hand hot tub (second hand - ewwww) shortly before the first massive electricity price hike. They used it a couple of times until they realised how effing expensive it was to run and haven’t used it since.
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Hot tubs of the UK grubby sex pond variety are absolutely disgusting things. A proper Japanese ofuro fed with water from a hot spring is a glorious thing though.
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most rof post ever there, Donno, and appeared effortless
not that I’m a hot tub fan
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I do love them - they are amazing to have drinks in, with friends, while it is cold outside.
That said, how much does it cost to run them for around 4 or 5 hours?
I once stayed in a very nice play in the Cotswolds that had a hot tub heated by burning wood - it worked really well and I imagine is by far the cheapest way to run way. Very nice smell from the burning wood too.
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Cess pit of germs. Just thinking about one makes me want to shower in bleach.
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4 hours? You’d be a prune!
plus, just have more money to
pay for electricity
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I am sorry that you are worried about energy costs risky. Have you tried earning more money?
Also, watch the video.
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You seem to have competely
misunderstood my post royalty. Also the video is aimed at anti-Semites and haters. I’m neither.
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Cess pit of germs. Just thinking about one makes me want to shower in bleach.
Just put some chlorine in the tub you div.
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Risky the video is quite literally aimed at you. Watch it and understand it.
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Watch it and understand it Jacki Weaver....
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Buzz gets it
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Confession from Bailey time - we bought an inflatable one for the end of the garden last summer. A week before the really hot spell arrived. I was v v v v v anti having it but my OH had always wanted one so i acquiesced.
Pros- in that hot weather going outside and standing in it in the afternoon was bliss. Getting it at around 7pm with a glass of wine was heaven.
Cons - we have little clawed kits who LOVE water, not an epic combination with an inflatable item. It survived. Just. Also, and this is the gross bit, it gets green algae in it, even with a cover on, so you have to clean it a LOT. Which is, as set out above, grimsville. Oh and the grass where it sat was terminated for months and only just grown back.
Maybe it will have developed a puncture over winter...
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Heh @ Bailey's DSP shame.
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Was just selling it to me then, tbh.
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They're for the nouveaux riches and cash-rich chavs who drink Echo Falls so-called wines.
Bogans, as they're called in Australia.
If one had the cash and had to spend it on leisure products then an upright piano would be a better bet, and has more classe. That, plus piano lessons or self-teaching with books and on-line videos would still leave you more left over because there are also no water and electricity bills, plus paying someone to clean out the diarrhoea stains.
With a piano you will have a better calibre of friends rather than boisterous nouves, or people who behave like that/ who take advantage of your hospitality.
A hot-tub is a v bad idea. Very TOWIE.
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