The great, multi-month search is over. After looking at more examples and models than I can remember, we settled Saturday on a hot tub.
Yes, a hot tub. Go ahead. Call us yuppies (actually, we’re too old to be yuppie). Both Amy and I have arthritis and mine is complicated by some non-OEM parts and a good soak at 100-plus degrees is just what the doctor ordered. In about a week we will be soaking to our heart’s content in a new hot tub on our back porch.
Finding just what we wanted wasn’t easy. They don’t call them hot tubs now. They are “spas” with multitude of jets, sculpted seats, multi-colored lights, cup holders, underwater speakers and even an LCD TV (if you want) that rises silently from one end. Plus our back porch is screened in — an old fashioned porch, not a deck or patio — and we had to find a unit that would fit through a 35-inch doorway. After many visits to many vendors, we settled on a tub from Hot Tub Heaven, which has stores at Smith Mountain Lake and at what they call their “Big Ugly Warehouse” on U.S. 220 and Buck Mountain Road south of Roanoke.
We’ve got to run a 240-volt GFCI line out to the porch location and get it ready for the new arrival but, soon, we won’t mind at all when someone tells us to go soak our head (and various other parts of our anatomy).
Your new lifestyle has become a burden for me. I’m not quite sure if I can take any more of it. Jealousy is just about to take me over. Could you please tone it down a bit? I may feel the need to bring my wallpaper and suitcase up soon. Or I may just call my momma and tell on you!!! Oh yes, the speakers that I have already put my name on are not the new underwater ones, are they?
The weather here on the outer banks had kept me inside for a while so when things cleared up on Sunday I spent the day in the yard, cleaning, hauling and planting stuff. When I read your hot tub piece my bones began to rebel and demand a hot tub. They had to settle for a hot shower. Hum septic in the mountains or hot tub on the outer banks.
We also needed a tub that would fit through doors yet would give good soaking depth. We found the perfect solution in a hot tub called the Rubadub Tub. We even got to decide where our jets and seats would be because it’s customized to our needs. And, it was really affordable.