Hot Tubs

[mikey4444]

In an effort to calm everybody down, I would like to introduce a light-hearted new topic. Hope it works !

I have just seen an article in the Guardian that claims that 1 in 10 houses in the UK have a hot tub, rising to 1 in 5 in the West Midlands. This is according to a new survey, although they are not saying who commissioned the survey, who carried it out, and where the survey was done. But I expect it was somebody heavily involved in household plumbing.

1 in 10 sounds highly improbable but 1 in 5 sounds impossible !

Is there anybody on AB, living in a tower block anywhere in Britain, but especially the West Midlands who can have a quick look out their windows and give us some feedback please ?

Personally I stopped bathing with other people when I was 10 and my next down brother was 5, and have no great desire to start again.

[Sharingan]

We've got one and I know of two other people locally but that's out of about 20 houses, so that's about 15%.

[emmie]

a hot tub round our way wouldn't last long,

[Sqad]

mikey....funny you have mentioned that as i was going to post a thread, but "chickened out" as i thought that certain members would think that i was getting at them.

Well mikey...that is the statistic........1in 10 in the UK............1in 5 West midlands.

I don't believe it. Yes I know that it is a statistic, but anecdotally, I do not know ANYBODY with an outside hot tub (I think it specified outside) and i did live for almost 3 decades in areas which might have had them.
Does that sound snobbish or elitist?......Good cus it was meant to.

I do not believe that statistic.

[MadMen]

The best thing my husband did when he left was to take his hot tub with him. Totally chavtastic and tacky!

[mikey4444]

Neither do I Sqad. I am trying to find out more about the survey from the Guardian website but not having much success. I shall persevere though.

[Mamyalynne]

This is mine, do have to share it though.


http://s1007.photobucket.com/user/mamyalynne/media/DSCI0004.jpg.html?sort=3&o=3

[AlwaysConfused]

I have a bath - does that count? And after a few too many sprouts, it doubles up as a jacuzzi

[Sqad]

mamy...yer but! we want a picture of you "immersed"........;-)

[Mamyalynne]

You would.

[craft1948]

I only know one person in this country who has a hot tub. He's a farmer and it's in a disused barn...............

[mikey4444]

Found something on the Daily Mail website ( oh God...I can't believe I just said that )

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312705/One-warming-hot-tubs-garden-Sales-actually-increase-cold-weather.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[Sqad]

mikey...thanks...I still don't believe that statistic and feel that me "anecdotal" experience is nearer to the truth.

[emmie]

would be hard pressed to get the cast iron dead weight bath tub outside.

[mallyh]

no one round my way has one ,mind they are nearly all oldies and i don't know if they make sling s for hot tubs as theres no way the majority could climb into one .

[Booldawg]

I know someone who has one. Cant see the appeal myself. Its neither a swimming pool or bath. Waste of garden area that could be put to better use as a vegetable plot or something.

[emmie]

i only know one couple with one, and they don't live here in the capital.

[mikey4444]

What a pity madmen that you didn't have a chance to try out your ex-husbands hot tub before he left !

[MadMen]

Oh I did go in there... after dark when no one could see! lol.
I just think they're ridiculously tacky, but then that's him all over.... :P

[jd_1984]

We dont have one but my parents do and we use it during the summer (its covered up September - April usually!)
It is a 10 person tub and my folks often have BBQ's and the hot tub will almost certainly get fired up.
That said I dont know anybody else with one. My folks got theirs 3 years ago, mounted on some decking in the sunniest corner of the garden.

[Gromit]

Sister and brother in law have one. Communal bathing went out with the Romans. I honestly don't get it. People seem to think it is opulent and cool. It just looks naff and stupid to me.