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.

I once had the most god awful verucca all over my big toe. Had it for years and tried every treatment going.

Hired a holiday cottage with a hot tub and within a week it had completely disappeared! Must have been some seriously strong chemicals in there!

I’m definitely not chavvy! Ours is for plane watching/star gazing. It means we’re chatting rather than sitting ignoring each other on screens.

It isn’t noisy and is kept sparkling, no nonsense in there despite not being overlooked. I’ve had friends round maybe twice, we just chatted, I refuse to play music outside.

We have a huge jacuzzi (made by jacuzzi!) in a summer house so not tacky imo. Apart from the kids laughing and splashing around I’m sure our neighbour doesn’t mind.

Hot tubs are fun

We have one. Small courtyard garden. My ds has autism and anxiety and was granted it for relaxation purposes. Dd is having tests for MS and finds it helps loads with her muscle pain. Hydrotherapy is good for other things! My dh has never been in ours so it's hardly a sex pod

I have one and I'm not a chav. You shouldn't be able to smell the chemicals, if you can they are putting far too much chlorine in. I don't have a velvet crushed sofa and definitely don't shag in it. I love going in it when it's dark and looking at the stars. I have endemetreosis and it really helps with my back pain, so for me personally I love it. Live and let live, there's far worse things your neighbours could be doing than enjoying their hot tub.

Some people are just such miserable b***. Live and let live I say.

If you want to not see or hear your neighbours go live in a croft.

I love ours. I don't use the bubbles much as it's harder to read my book with them on, but I can't see how the filter being on is more annoying than NDN lighting bonfires at 7am or letting their three dogs bark in the garden all night.

We don't have sex in it either.

The vitriol directed at hot tubs brings the phase "protesting too much" to mind . A properly installed hot tub in a beautiful location, a glass of wine and a good book are a real pleasure in life. I have been working in a depressing location doing depressing things and hopping in the hot tub after work makes me feel human again.

I recently moved house...my house is a very small end terrace, with a minuscule garden. Suits me, I'm happy...but my very new 'man' suggested the idea of a hot tub in my minuscule, terraced house garden! He was deadly serious! He got dumped shortly after...we were clearly 'not a match' 😳🤷‍♀️

Oh I’d love one! But I have started to realise that I am a bit chavvy, at least by MN standards.

DH has worked at health clubs for years. He would never get in a hot tub/spa/jacuzzi due to knowing exactly what goes in them and what comes out when you clean them! For that reason I steer clear.

Even if I didn't think baths were the dullest and grimmest way to relax anyway, I still don't get the idea of how communal bathing (or sexing), and outside, is in any way good, on any level.

You just sit there in a pool of grimy water that is only sanitised by powerful chemicals (because the time and effort of emptying and refilling it with clean water each day would be horrendous)? Mmm, fun!

“Chlamydia soup”

As described by the op in a long running post about their neighbours shagging in their hot tub right outside the op’s bedroom window.

We don’t have one but often stay in a holiday cottage that has one. It’s very well maintained, does not smell and always covered when not in use.

Isn’t the water a soupy festering mess of germs - which obviously you can’t see. Bleurgh

I think they are incredibly tacky, anyway.

...can’t see?

A bit like conservatories, small garden ponds, matchy matchy garden pots, little statues and the dreaded decking.

Gosh nothing gets MN posters climaxing faster than the chance to denigrate someone else's choices as "lacking in class".

Only the third certainty in life along with death and taxes.

You do realise that most hot tubs are looked after right?

Why are some posters so hysterical?

I lobe how snobby this thread is. Just shows snobby does not mean classy!

Don't own one but used one in holiday cottage last week. Unless it's very well maintained I'd not use it but I don't care if others do. It doesn't make them chavvy.

Oh and you can't get chlamydia from a hot tub.

But then I don't mind my neighbours having a barbecue, waterfeature, trampoline etc either. I must be super tolerant 😀

Love not love.

I lobe how snobby this thread is. Just shows snobby does not mean classy

Totally agree! Also can't believe how many people are getting away with describing people as 'chavvy', or 'chavs'. Thought that was a no-no on MN.....

Why are some posters so hysterical?

Because nothing upsets a certain type of middle class poster more than previously seen as 'luxury' items becoming available to the mass market.

Hence throwing around words like tacky/chavvy (which were invented for the very purpose of putting the working classes back in their box) and casting aspersions on their hygiene. It's all so utterly predictable.

I'd bloody love one (they were selling them in Aldi a few weeks ago ) but sadly my garden is too small.

I did really want one - until I got a pool for my DD’s a couple of months ago & am now just waiting for autumn so the hell can end! 😖.

The noise they (and their friends) make while playing in it is bad enough (plus the noisy filter pump! 🙄), but the real nightmare has been the ridiculous amount of time & effort I have had to put in to keep it clean, the water topped up & the chemical levels right (none of which is helped by the fact that our dogs think jumping up at the sides is the best game ever 🐶🤯🤬).

Also, the extra water & electricity costs have been eye wateringly higher than expected - now paying £70 a month more for bills each month 😣

My DD’s keep asking if we can get one next year but hell will freeze over first - and they can kiss good bye to the pool coming out again next year too 🤪

Come back trampoline, all is forgiven 😂

We stayed in a holiday cottage last winter that had one and it was heavenly.
Sitting in warm bubbles, drinking cold bubbles on a freezing winters night was a lovely experience.

Getting the lid back on in a January gale was not so much fun.

I'm too lazy to faff about but can definitely see the appeal.