To think a hot tub in the kitchen isn't a great idea?

[Shedbuilder]

My work involves looking at plans for new builds/ extensions/ renovations. I've just been sent a set that includes a hot tub in a kitchen-diner.

The property's owners plan to build a 4m x 4m glass-walled extension onto the existing kitchen/diner and knock through, giving the kitchen a view of the garden. I imagine most people would put a dining table in the extension but the owners of this property are sinking a hot tub into the floor. The tub is shown around 1200mm (4ft) away from a run of kitchen units. To prevent anyone falling in while working in the kitchen there will be a glass screen positioned to prevent accidents. Otherwise it's open to the kitchen.

It's my job to think through the ventilation, humidity and heating issues, which can all be managed. So practicality aside, AIBU to think it's not a good idea — or would you love a hot tub in your kitchen?

My granny's house had a cast iron bathtub in the kitchen, but to be fair, it was a 1920s kitchen and the bathtub doubled as a washing tub for clothes, complete with mangle over one end. Maybe the owners are being eco-friendly and plan to use the hot water again for their clothes, after they've soaked their bodies. Sacrifices have to made if we're to save the planet....

What fresh hell is that/ I can think of nothing wore, i mean just WHY?

Baths are a bit different with the plumbing side of things and tend to ( normally) be in their own room with a window or fan for ventilation etc and not in kitchens.
(Not that I'm a plumber but it does seem different having this done. More complex. )

You say the ventilation, humidity and heating issues, which can all be managed

Really? Because I'd have thought it was going to be a humid, damp nightmare.

I've got a hot tub in my house. It's called a bath.

I don't get the hot tub obsession.

@nauticant

It'll add a whole new dimension to veg prep, popping in the hot tub to peel the carrots and scrub the potatoes*.

• not a euphemism ** not a euphemism

nope i think its a step back like when you had the bath in the kitchen. i can think of all sorts of problems it could cause technically. much better to have a side room next to the bi fold doors with same doors

I suppose it could come in handy if you wanted to defrost something in a hurry, but apart from that - just NO!

Surely when it's indoors it's just called a bath?

God, think of the mould and condensation.
🤢

I knew people with a swimming pool off their living room. Even with glass doors between, the damp was a screaming nightmare.

@ShakerCan. And carpet!!!!

There is a house on rightmove in the village I am looking to move to with a lap pool just off the kitchen. Its a nondescript 3 bedroomed 70's house. Obviously putting people off as they have gone with a new estate agent who has left off a photo of the pool and in the description just says potential playroom.

Me and DH keep trying to work out why they have used half their floorspace downstairs for a pool

@DoTheNextRightThing

That sounds ridiculous. I love it. I would absolutely fall in with a pot full of pasta in hand.

No problem, its salt water so dinner won't be spoiled. Just use a sieve to catch it...

Yuk

What an interesting job you have though!

And strange clients.

My first thought was "only if you have a lot of washing up".

Some of these comments are legendary.

Why don't they just have a normal extension and put an Eazy-Spa in there for summer!😆

A human stockpot. Ready for human soup. A kitchen based sex pond. not envy

After WW2 my friend had a shared

To the people who are talking about damp, condensation, mould etc — yes, all that happens when moisture and humidity aren't properly controlled. It's possible, using things like extractors and MVHR and triple glazing and good heating to mitigate most of those problems, but doing so is expensive.

Dirty swingers probably don’t even like onion rings, animals.

After WW2 my friend lived in a shared house and during the war a bath had been installed in the scullery, it had a lid over it which served as a worktop. As a kid it fascinated me.

As my df died of Legionnaires I'm very wary of hot tubs in general. A friend's dd has several individual ones in their holiday cottages and they are drained and cleaned between changeover.

I saw a terraced house where the side return had been glassed over, the walls removed so you had a kitchen which backed onto the second reception room, then a dining room with bifold doors leading onto a hot tub. So no windows to open in the kitchen, dining or second reception.

I once visited a house with a toilet and bath next to the oven (separated by only a thin mdf wooden partition screen that stuck out just enough to provide a little shelter from hot fat spitting on you whilst you shat). The house also had a 2ft drop from the lounge to the conservatory (no steps/no warning). You just opened the French doors and then had to windmill your arms backwards to avoid falling off the ledge. Another feature was the bright green long shaggy grass-like carpet throughout (with a life sized toy tiger basking in the lounge). The original fireplaces had all been painted luminous pink. Upon entering the children's bedroom, the estate agent pulled up the blind to reveal a large wall with the words "fuck off" painted in massive words. Oh the look of panic across his face. It was his first visit to the house and it was hilarious listening to him trying to put a positive spin on it, whilst the owners listened in. He didn't even bother to ask us what we thought at the end of it. He just pegged it out of the place as fast as we did.

I'm getting ads for "remarkable toilets" now!

Are you serious OP?