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?

Bloody stupid idea, basically a bath in the kitchen. Half the fun of a hot tub is being outdoors in the cold in hot water.

I went on a hen do in the most random house somewhere or other (Wales maybe?) and that had a HUGE sex pond hot tub in the conservatory/extension thing. I think it was an eight person one? It was basically like an indoor pool, but bubbly

hot tubs are ghastly anywhere but in a kitchen ??

The word 'Sploshing' just comes to my mind.

Like in the film Nine And A Half Weeks'.

@nocoolnamesleft

Yeah, cos so many people are sticking hot tubs in kitchens these days, so your original post was in no way identifying.

Exactly!!!!

Felifox
I was just coming on to describe the very same thing in my aunt's house in the 1950's, a bath in the scullery with a wooden cover.
I lived in a house which was built for the workers in the ironworks in C19th, one up, one down over a basement reached by a trapdoor and wooden ladder, which housed a lovely woman known as Granny Wright.
We had to go down the ladder and through her home to get to the outside toilet! My bath time was in a tin bath in front of the coal fire
Obviously I thought the bath/worktop combo was the height of sophistication.

I can't believe the changes I have seen in my lifetime, I am very grateful for many of them, but hot tub in the kitchen? No, not for me

@romeolovedjulliet

Are you using 'but' to mean 'except'?
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Yeah I'd have thought that could be deeply unpleasant from a cross-contamination point of view (both ways). And think of the horrific chlorine stench right next to the kitchen.

God how nasty.

I kind of love the idea, purely because as a child I loved swimming so much I used to fantasise about making the whole house into a giant pool so this just taps into a long-held childhood dream for me.
Fully aware it's completely insane and very impractical to be fair

The wee Irish fella from Your Home Made Perfect put a bath in one of his long benches in the kitchen of a home. Right opposite the cooker, it was.

As much as I like my vegetables al dente, the horror of all that glass and steam - it'd be like living in an Anthony Gormley exhibition. The feature wallpaper would forever be sliding off the wall.

I mean if I was going to do something as magically batshit insane as build a hot tub in the kitchen I'd probably go the whole hog and buy a bunch of pet ducks to swim about in it too. Why not?

I’m getting adverts about hot tubs while reading this thread

It’s a bizarre idea though.
Even if the issues with damp could be resolved without prohibitively high bills, having a hot tub practically in the kitchen doesn’t sound at all relaxing to me.

(And I agree with pp that this is a pretty identifiable post OP. The number of people who’d consider a hot tub in the kitchen must be minuscule, the number of people who’d actually go as far as hiring people to look into the practicality of this must be a tiny proportion of that minuscule number)

My Dad, bless him, was a plumber. He used to have tales to tell sometimes of what he'd find in people's houses or plans they'd dreamed up and run past him. Toilet installed in the corner of an extension without any screening was more common that you'd like to think

Quite amusing was the sheer number of times over the years he was asked by folk in normal 3 bed semi's what he thought of their idea of having a sunken bath upstairs. 'Sunken' into the floor. Upstairs in a normal house.

''Oh yep, all doable'' he'd say ''so long as you're happy to sit in the living room with the bottom of your bath hanging down near y' head ...''

Then would come the ''oh yeah .......''

Classy.

Imagine the greasy film that would build up on the top of the water....eugh!

I did view a property in Buckinghamshire that had a toilet (ie just a cubicle, no actual walls) in the kitchen once. That's a bit worse.
Also here in Berlin I've seen a couple of flats where the shower is located pretty much in the middle of the kitchen. Very weird stuff

Yup, hot tub in the kitchen, swing ball in living room and a shed in the corner of the dining room. Can't see the problem - bring the outdoors in I say.

It reminds me of when I played The Sims on my computer and used to put a swimming pool in each bedroom.....

Oooh, the stench of chlorine to help you work up an appetite. Yum.

[quote Dontfuckingsaycheese]@ShakerCan. And carpet!!!![/quote]
I know! Carpet just adds to the ick (not envy)

Oh Lord I think my 17yo DS has submitted a plan for my house to be altered! This is what he wants to do. He thinks I'm just being grumpy when I say no way. He thinks I'm lying when I say that I can't afford it anyway. I think some people just get so obsessed by hot tubs that That they'll fit one in where ever they can.

My MIL has carpeted her conservatory, so maybe DSs lunacy is inherited

As much as I like my vegetables al dente, the horror of all that glass and steam - it'd be like living in an Anthony Gormley exhibition.

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@PaternosterLoft

The wee Irish fella from Your Home Made Perfect put a bath in one of his long benches in the kitchen of a home. Right opposite the cooker, it was.

I remember that episode, they loved it.