Bob
YMS released a video talking about his experience with the event. I was curious if people here have been to a Hot Tub Cinema screening in other cities and if so, how does it compare to YMS's experience? Was it also a shitshow or were the issues just mostly exclusive to the Vancouver event?
It sounds kind of weird. but interesting. You chill in a hot tub while watching the movie. But I'm afraid it would be a bit swinger'ish.
My wife and I knew nothing about hot tubs when we asked our landscaper if he could build one. He has done some wonderful work for us in the past: concrete, retaining walls, artificial turf etc. We trusted him—even consider him a friend—and he said he would be honored to build a hot tub for us with *four jets.* We'll come back to them in a second.
Along the way there were many red flags I ignored, chiefly when my neighbor asked about the filter and I said there wasn't one.
The first part of the job was stellar, he demolished our awful DIY concrete side yard to lay new cables form the breaker box, and a water line and drainage line (not sure if those last two were necessary now...). He re-concreted the side yard and it looks like a million dollars.
Now the tub itself. He excavated and laid out what looked like deeply intricate pipework. Then came the concrete. Beautiful! And the tiles. Gorgeous.
But then there was the water heater, which seemed odd. And the chat about heating the water by pumping some out (there is a drain in the bottom which leads to a pump to our waste water line) and filling it back up with hot water. Like a bath. This all seemed weird but we had faith in his vision.
Last Friday, a lightning bolt hit me. He showed me the 'jets' by twisting a water line open which made four hosepipes spurt out water from the walls. This definitely did not seem right. I Googled 'how do hot tub jets work?'
I'm sure you all know the answer to this question: they need air. I fell down a rabbit hole which confirmed what my gut already knew: we do not have a hot tub in our yard. We have a huge bath tub.
As far as I know—and please correct me if I'm wrong—we will have to empty this hole after every use and refill it next time. With no filter, inline heater, air compressor and actual jets—not to mention a skimmer(?) we will at any one time have an empty hole or a pool of dirty water.
He was meant to come back on Monday to do the final task: surface the seats and floor. But we texted him on Sunday with these major concerns (the jets and the filter to be specific) and he said he would like to talk to us in person. It is now Tuesday evening and he has not been back.
I have lost sleep and had at least one nightmare.
I would like some advice, please. Am I correct in thinking we have a huge problem and three *expensive* solutions:
1/ Excavate/demolish a large amount of dirt and concrete to install the correct pipework and systems.
2/ Fill the hole comple
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Edit: Hopefully we won't feel the need to by then
