If you view a house but see a hot tub next door...

[6poundshower]

Are you going to think twice about a purchase. Row of town houses, close together, small gardens. Massive hot tub just the other side in neighbours garden, clearly in regular use. Would it make you think twice about noise.

You wouldn't trust a vendor on the matter, of course they would say they were fine, regardless of the facts.

We have one. We don’t hold raucous parties or have sex in it! Mostly use it with lights and jets turned off and looking at the stars. Our non hot tub neighbours do have loud parties but are also polite enough to forewarn all neighbours when these are happening.

I know it’s a MN crime, but I just add another zero to the number of fucks I give about that ….. or my three wood burners and second home …….

OMG - what a miserable lot! The neighbours who live over my back fence have a trampoline, and swimming pool, the kids played outside all the time, kicked balls, climbed trees (and onto my garage roof) when they were younger, the parents have an outside area where they entertain in the evenings through to the early hours of the morning sometimes, winter and summer. When the eldest boy was a teen he had parties in the back yard. Not one of those things bothered me in the slightest. I would much rather live next to them than the judgemental killjoys on this thread!

No, wouldn't put me off at all. Live and let live surely?

This! Thank goodness I don't live in the UK.

This! Thank goodness I don't live in the UK

Obviously I don't know where you live, but we typically don't have the space that others countries do. It's annoying as we are on top of each other, and in a terrace you may as well be in their garden with them.

I wouldn't complain to my neighbours concerning their hot tub, but it does disturb my sleep in the summer, l have 4.30am starts, they are in it at midnight, so l think a lot of it depends on when and how they are using it.

I wouldn’t buy. My neighbours across the back have had one a few years & i’m now desperate to move (but could end up
worse)

@stripedsox our never smelt like chlorine (or anything) as our chemicals were properly balanced. It's a faff, but worth it.

God, I'd love a hot tub.

Can't believe that people would turn down their dream house because the neighbour had a basket ball hoop.

I've never heard anything so strange.

Can't believe that people would turn down their dream house because the neighbour had a basket ball hoop.

The loud repetitive thud of basketballs hitting the ground is incredibly annoying.

Of course it does! You shouldn't be able to smell it strongly though, as then it's over-chlorinated and won't be working.

That chlorine smell is exactly what it smells like neat... before it's touched any bodies.

It wouldn’t be your dream home for long though the repetitive thudding of balls for hours a day at weekends / evenings would soon ruin that .

@Floralnomad I do understand that but we have a basketball net and my son hardly uses it. Perhaps once a month if that? Would hate to think we were responsible for reducing house prices in our street

Would totally put me off.

What do you mean clearly in regular use, there is absolutely no way to know such a thing.

It would put me off in a small garden where houses are close together, but so would other things that suggested there's a risk of unreasonable noise levels.

Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

I don't think it has to put you off. Maybe they use it every weekend, or maybe they are like us and hardly use it at all? We use ours occasionally, just our family and quietly. Of course, you have no easy way of knowing which it is going to end up being.

Hot tubs cost a couple of hundred quid. The fact that someone has one now wouldn't put me off. They are so cheap these days anyone can buy one 🤦🏽‍♀️

Yes would be a huge put off. A house 2 doors away from us (semi detached big gardens and quiet area) and the pump is loud. Then they get in it and the bubbles start and they have to talk/shout louder .

On the plus side they have very interesting lives so it's at least a good listen for the neighbourhood.

Yes, the house doesn't sound like anything remarkable or one off so I'd look elsewhere.

Seems to be a lot of peasants who can only afford terraces with small gardens, but who want to enjoy the same peaceful sanctuary that actually requires the budget for a detached house with a large garden. Hyacinth Bucket would be thrilled with this thread.

Seems to be a lot of peasants who can only afford terraces with small gardens, but who want to enjoy the same peaceful sanctuary that actually requires the budget for a detached house with a large garden. Hyacinth Bucket would be thrilled with this thread.
Or to put it a different way there's people who are quite happy to have a smaller house and a smaller garden, know that they will be the sort of neighbour who is mindful of being in their own smaller garden and want to maximise the chance that their potential neighbours are also likely to be considerate.

Well, if it isn't about the money, p'raps they should buy the neighbour's house too - that way they can uninstall the hot tub and be sure to have the peace and quiet they crave.

(Actually, Mark Zuckerberg famously did exactly that ... bought all four neighbouring properties to his own "for greater peace and quiet". I expect he probably installed a hot tub though ...)