To think hot tubs in back gardens are a bit shit and anti social?

[ManicUnicorn]

I'm sure they're nice and realxing and perfectly acceptable if you live a house with a huge garden and no close neighbours nearby, but my neighbours have just bought one. We live in a row of terraces, with small gardens and are overlooked from every direction. It's slap bag in the middle of the back yard and I can actually see them sitting in it if I go upstairs.

All weekend Ive heard the constant hum from the pumps and the stench of chlorine filling the air. Now they're sitting in, shouting like they're deaf because they can't hear themselves talking over the pump.

If I'm honest I also find them a bit tacky. I can't think of anything worse. Just have a sodding bath! DB's next door neighbours have and he's been moaning about it for ages, thought he was being a killjoy until one was installed here! Now I get it.

Owned by people with silver crushed velvet sofas

Sadly they are a tad common but we succumbed to ease ageing and aching joints. It’s heavenly. It saves NHS appointments and costs for wax baths. It is very, very sociable and allows difficult conversations to take place without anger.
Several others in the village now have them too. A conductor with stiff shoulders amongst them. He’s definitely not chavvy but straightforward, undisputed upper class. My mother in law loves it too - and she was one of the final debs received at Buckingham Palace.
Ours doesn’t intrude on anyone. Is spotlessly clean and uses ozone rather than chlorine as it’s better for skin.
Nothing lovelier than sitting under a sky at night where there is no light pollution, a glass of Sancerre, Bach’s Air on a G string playing whilst you bubble away the stresses and stiffness of the day.

You have my sympathies OP. Our previous neighbours had one right against the fence, about 20ft from our bedroom window. The noise from them shouting at each other over the bubbles was unbearable, along with the loud music, shrieking laughter, flood lights etc. They were having the time of their lives but we were utterly miserable for 14 months until they fucked off to make other people miserable instead. I celebrated when they left.

Well I love my hot tub, I enjoy sitting in it with my partner relaxing after tough days.
It helps ease my back pain from the manual
Handling of my disabled teenager and it is brilliant for my daughter when we do her hydro/Physio exercises.

I'm not a chav, we don't have silver crushed sofas and it is kept hygienic with regular monitoring, chemicals and servicing.

Oh and I've never had sex or any sexual interactions in it.....

do they come complete with neon plastic glasses and straws that light up in the dark. Ok to wash the dog in I suppose.

The correct mn term is sex pond

They will definitely be intending to have sex in it OP
YANBU - stupid to get one in a tiny terrace garden.

Mine is sunk into decking surrounded by bamboo screening. Haven't even given DH s peck on the cheek in it. Several metres from boundary fences on both sides . During times of work stress it really helps my sleep . I think the lazyzee spas can be noisy my hard shell tub is not.

To each their own!

I know one of my neighbours hates it but I don't much like the way they commandeer s public parking space despite a triple garage and drive space for 4.

If family time looking at stars and chatting without screens is chavy then I am chavtastic . Rather that than sneering and judgemental.

I won't even go near them, my Dad had legionnaires and it was awful, he didn't die but he never fully recovered either. He got his from a heating/cooling system in an office building not a hot tub, but hot tubs are ideal breeding grounds for legionella if you don't get the chemicals exactly right. (I also automatically hold my breath if I feel a warm draft on my face when walking along the street as that is often from an air-conditioning unit vent.)

I would have one if I lived in a detached house with a large non overlooked garden and it wasn’t chlorine filled ...

Sadly 8 live 8n a terraced house with tiny Back yards into which my incredibly chavvy neighbors have squeezed a noisy, chlorine filled hot tub...I hate it.

In my head I'm now hearing 'sex pond, sex pond, you're my sex pond'

Oh my god, never saw the attraction before reading this thread but I'll look upon them with even more horror now (sex pond, sperm pond, dead skin soup! don't know whether to laugh or puke!)

I'm off on a tangent, but I long for a sauna in our garden.

Oh muffin, now you've given me an earworm, I can't stand t.j.

I had an ex in America who's parents had one. I thought it was super sexy when we snuck into it in the night, under the stars in the snow etc.

Less sexy when they entire family wanted to go in after thanks giving dinner and I ended wedged inbetween his dad and his sister 🤔

Oh, "bathing suit optional" too

Guess ur next thread will be "I saw them shagging in the hottub. They saw me at the upstairs window. help!"

CherryPavlova I'm on my way, will bring fresh supplies of Sancerre

but you can look at the stars all cosy in a blanket without the need to be neck deep in gurgling water...
However, each to their own.

Grim. My neighbours have one. I like to potter about the garden of an evening, doing a bit of weeding. I hate it when the hot tub is on - the smell of chlorine and the noise. Thank god they don't have noisy sex in it. I live in fear of being invited to sit in their sex pond of bodily fluids.

We have one and we are not chavvy . As befits our general poshness ours is a proper one with a quiet pump we do not have sex in it or often have other people in it. I go in it most days with my book it's lovely being in our secluded wooded garden looking at the stars. I don't see how it would affect our lovely neighbours though one of my neighbour friends is a big fan and keeps inviting herself over for a dip

Must confess we love ours but we are not overlooked. Pretty sure you are not supposed to use chlorine for such warm water - ours uses bromine and doesnt smell at all.

I am abit shamefaced about ours as the accepted middle view is pass the smelling salts quelle horreur see above posters but ours has been great my girls are pre teens they love it it's fun for their friends and when we in it as a family they are forced to talk to us . Was fab fun in the snow rolling in snow then jumping in tub!

I'd rather live next door to a hot tub than a barking dog, shrieking child, boinging trampoline, tinkly set of wind chimes, overused barbecue, water 'feature', outdoor sound system or constantly bouncing football.

I think people try them at spas and love them, to each their own. The people on here who have them make them sound lovely and relaxing.

I think hot tubs have replaced oversized trampolines in tiny gardens as this year's chavvy accessory.