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[Lockhouse]

£100pcm to keep it ready for a dip whenever you felt like it? That's far less than I'd have thought... or £100pcm and you have to 'turn it on' 6 hours before use?

I'd love an outdoor heated pool in a cold climate personally, that WOULD be a height of luxury.

£100pm to keep it at a very nice temperature. With that much water, you can't just "turn it on" as it takes around a week to heat up from cold. We normally run the pump\heater for 8 hours a day. It's actually a large heat exchanger attached to the main boiler return. You also need a thermal cover to keep the heat in when the pool's not being used and to stop condensation.

[d000hg]

£100pcm to keep it ready for a dip whenever you felt like it? That's far less than I'd have thought... or £100pcm and you have to 'turn it on' 6 hours before use?

I'd love an outdoor heated pool in a cold climate personally, that WOULD be a height of luxury.

[Lockhouse]

You'd think a pool is a far better social superiority marker than a jacuzzi, it must cost a fortune to build and a small fortune to run.

Not that much to run - around £100pm, it was already there when we bought the house. Outdoor pools are much more difficult to heat and it's far harder to keep the chemicals at the right levels. Plus you can only use an outdoor pool about three days per year.

[d000hg]

Indoor pool here. We took the jacuzzi out though when we converted the gym complex and games room into an annex for the Father-in-law.

You'd think a pool is a far better social superiority marker than a jacuzzi, it must cost a fortune to build and a small fortune to run.

[Spacecadet]

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[Lockhouse]

Indoor pool here. We took the jacuzzi out though when we converted the gym complex and games room into an annex for the Father-in-law.

[d000hg]

Want to your neighbours to know you've made it? Buy a hot tub! Jacuzzis named as the ultimate status symbol | Mail Online


I've got two you know...

I've got a bottle of wine from the Jacuzzi Estate in Sonoma if that counts. Well, we drank it but we still have the bottle...

[NotAllThere]

Are you at the top of the social status ladder?

Yes. I'm a contractor.

[MaryPoppins]

Given DP's financial position, his jacuzzis probably consist of a tin bath he sits in while furiously using an egg whisk

Is that what they call it these days.

[sasguru]

Baked beans, onions, Brussel Sprouts and a tin bath in front of the fire, the proper British way to have one of those fancy foreign Jacuzzi things...

Given DP's financial position, his jacuzzis probably consist of a tin bath he sits in while furiously using an egg whisk

[darmstadt]

Baked beans, onions, Brussel Sprouts and a tin bath in front of the fire, the proper British way to have one of those fancy foreign Jacuzzi things...

[moggy]

Christ. Must be true if it's in the Daily Hate.

FTFY

[BrilloPad]

Well that's what happens when you read lower-middle class rags like the Wail.
To us U-people, Jacuzzis are an invariable sign of extreme chavness.

No. Eco-sheds are the invariable sign of extreme chavness.

HTH

[louie]

Well that's what happens when you read lower-middle class rags like the Wail.
To us U-people, Jacuzzis are an invariable sign of extreme chavness.

+1 A jacuzzi can be bought for what... a few grand? How does that make you at the top? Maybe in an estate with council houses.

[DimPrawn]

Well that's what happens when you read lower-middle class rags like the Wail.
To us U-people, Jacuzzis are an invariable sign of extreme chavness.

You can't see my Jacuzzi from the street, my Corsa blocks it from view.