How much noise does a hot tub make at night?

[Butterfly44]

Considering buying one and reading that it should be kept on constantly and not turned off. So my number one concern is about noise overnight and how loud that is when we have windows open for us and neighbours. I don't want to be a nuisance. Would like to hear from those who own one. Not thought about models yet as the answer to this may determine if and what we buy. Thank you!

It’s just the heater that some people keep on all the time and that doesn’t make any noise. It’s the pump that makes the bubbles which is the noisy bit.

Our neighbours have one and to be honest it annoys the shit out of us. In the summer you can hear it all night, like a low humming noise. It’s horrible. However, we don’t say anything and just put up with it. I’m sure we annoy them in other ways!

Mind doesn't make any noise...it's heated by a log burner.

Ours has a low hum overnight but there’s also road noise, dogs barking, car alarms, drunk people walking past occasionally etc. I sleep with the window open and don’t notice the hot tub hum anymore.

I am also very strict and will not let the bubbles/pump be on past 9.30pm, regardless of light or weather etc because I also don’t want to cause a nuisance at all.

A low hum but it quickly drowns into white noise and not heard anymore.

The bubbles however are LOUD!

Depends on how much noise the occupants make when they come

Agree with Elai
It's not the humming from the hot tub that is annoying it is the shrieking and other general party noise from the people using it.

@elai1978

If you're a neighbour... loads. That hum, plus splashing, plus hysterical children screaming plus the fact it goes on for hours and hours, then the adults turn up, then they drink, then they get drunk, then they're shouting and laughing, then last thing at night, Celine Dion, ELO, Madness, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Wham and all the other shite gets blasted at full volume over the entire neighbourhood!

If you're the owner, it makes barely a sound, children are entitled to enjoy themselves, adults are allowed to enjoy themselves and who doesn't like 80s music?

Next door have one and the hum drives us batty. In summer when windows open at night it is way closer to our bedroom than theirs and it is awful (and we live in suburban London with train and traffic noise too). Lockdown camping in the garden utterly ruined by it - them in it right next to the tent with radio blaring until 11pm and then the hum all night.

Depends how many people are having sex in it at one time

We have ours below our bedroom window and to the side of our house. We have no neighbours that side at all. You can’t hear the gentle hum but you can hear the cleaning cycle as it goes off. Cleaning cycle goes off a few times a day.
It depends what type/make you are looking at. Our cleaning cycle goes on twice a day (just asked dh).

The hum of the motor didn't bother me. What did bother me was the jets/bubbles, loud music and the screaming over it for hours on end. It also stank because they only cleaned it once in 7 months ...

@1Morewineplease that's hilarious 😂

The neighbours are my worry. They have moaned before at my teen and her friends making too much noise in the garden and asked that there's no noise past 10....so I'm pretty sure they will moan at a hum 🙁

Can’t believe nobody has said sex pond yet.

The comment by @OverByYer alluded to a sex pond

Owners = gentle hum
Neighbour = annoying hum

^ this
Don’t be that neighbour

[quote Butterfly44]@1Morewineplease that's hilarious 😂

The neighbours are my worry. They have moaned before at my teen and her friends making too much noise in the garden and asked that there's no noise past 10....so I'm pretty sure they will moan at a hum 🙁 [/quote]
Your poor neighbours and now they’ll have to put up with your hot tub. The hum is incessant irritating noise - they’ve every right to ‘moan’ about having their peace interrupted.

@Butterfly44 - about the hum, we don’t even leave the heater on overnight, we just set the timer for the morning and it’s ready by late afternoon. So there is no need for any noise at all at night.

@Inastatus so do you turn it off at night and then on again in the morning?

@Butterfly44 yes, we don’t use it every day so we just put it in on the morning if we know we are going to be using it later that day. You can also buy insulating covers which keep the heat in whilst the heating is off.

I live in mid terrace townhouse where the gardens are about 5m wide. Our hot tub is kept hot 24/7 (with an insulated cover on of course). The noise of the heater can't even be heard from their garden (they've confirmed that)

So knowing it's the pump that makes the constant hum noise, I'm assuming the hard shell ones which have pump inbuilt make less noise that the inflatable ones with outside pump or am I wrong?