Wibu to put a hot tub on my balcony?

[Rach5l]

In a terraced house, vair middle class, quiet village?
It would be seen & heard by both immediate neighbours.
Tbf my neighbours already know i'm not vair middle class so perhaps they wouldn't be surprised?!

just google hot tub on balcony - not only is it not an issue - in many hotels around the world it is seen as a symbol of great luxury!

of course it's an issue - you think that hotel balconies with hot tubs weren't specifically built to cope with them?

once filled, it will weigh about 3000lbs or 1.36 metric tonnes

Terrible idea - when I was renovating an upstairs bathroom, I had to get flooring reinforced to be able to move a bathtub 90 degrees. A hot tub holds vastly more water and weighs a huge amount. At the very least get a structural engineer and your insurance company to sign off on it before even considering it.

Even if the balcony can take the weight, what if it bursts? That's a helluva lot of water to mop up in the rooms underneath. Just fart in the bath like the rest of us commoners.

Can't you just get a paddling pool in the back garden?

Get the balcony checked/reinforced and go for it.

Oh and layzspas don't tend to just randomly burst. Normally when the pool part goes it's a slow leak puncture. It's thick plastic with a protective cover.

If you're determined to get a hot tub for your balcony please get the area professionally assessed first to see if it can handle the excess weight (basically the same as parking a family hatchback on your balcony) and check any insurance issues otherwise it could be a briefly wonderful but long term expensive mistake.

Hell no, there's too much potential for it to go wrong.

Pmsl yes you should absolutely do that. And definitely video it so the world can laugh at what a monumentally stupid idea it is when the balcony collapses and you are left with tonnes of water everywhere and a ruined house!

You really need a survey done to see if your balcony is strong enough, really, really, really.

Pity the neighbours, I wouldn't be impressed having one adjacent to my balcony.
Some people along the road from me had theirs craned over the roof onto their patio and the local seagulls love it 😳

It's also really noisy as it runs (all day and all night) clicking in and out as it reaches and drops temperatures - I've had a few - a total luxury that I miss but they were always away from the house enough to not disturb us at night or the neighbours

Bar all the very relevant structural concerns, I'd be mightily pissed off if I were your neighbour. Having your hot tub on would hinder their enjoyment of their balcony. And of course, if it all goes wrong and it's a terraced property, the damage may well not be limited to your house. Does your insurance cover idiocy?

I'm sure I remember an episode of Corrie where Cilla and Les installed a hot tub or jacuzzi in an upstairs room and it (and them) ended up in the sitting room.

Is this you, OP?

Hot tubs are a butt crass - sorry op

Bit crass - not butt / tho you never know

My friends neighbours have done this. The noise is horrible and my friend struggles to sleep with it. she has a terminal illness so it is very sad but they feel they are entitled to it

And they're expensive to run and environmentally unfriendly.