It's here. The big day.

[shabba34]

You should...Yanks...at least wait...Yanks...till the temp...Yanks...raises...a few more...Yanks...degrees.

[East_TX_Spa]

ooooohhhhh.

Watchyagonnado? Huh?  

Folks in Tennessee don't take kindly to harassment.

Terminator

[TN__HOT_TUB]

Folks in Tennessee don't take kindly to harassment.

Terminator

ROTFLMAO

dats right

[Tatooed_Lady]

You should...Yanks...at least wait...Yanks...till the temp...Yanks...raises...a few more...Yanks...degrees.

yikes....wayyy too much yankin' goin' on there....
hey.....if you are in a 25mph zone and there's a 55mph speed zone within sight (you can SEE the sign).....if you accelerate to the posted 55mph before you reach the actual sign, can a cop give you a ticket for premature acceleration?  
Congrats on the tub! Nice huevos.  

[TN__HOT_TUB]

Awesome job!  It's fun to see a project progress like yours  

Post up some more pics when it's full of honeys!  

MattNY, you asked for it.  Here's my tub full of honeys!

[Spatech_tuo]

MattNY, you asked for it.  Here's my tub full of honeys!

Very cute (though not exactly what he meant by "honies").

[TN__HOT_TUB]

Rest assured, if there are ever two "real" honies in my tub and my wife isn't one of them, then I'm in big trouble.  Especially if there are photos and the photos make it to the internet.  

By the way, we had a ball playing in the hot tub.  Not exactly therapeutic with those two honies.  I'm waiting for my wife to get home before giving the tub it's true first dip.

[anne]

TN, that looks great! Ironically, I just finished my flagstone, and was just aboutto post pics ( had the tub first, finished patio second)

If you have trouble with the sand coming loose, like you mentioned, I may have a solution. depends on how mine holds up, but I'm happy being a guinea pig.

happy soaking!!!!!

[TN__HOT_TUB]

TN, that looks great! Ironically, I just finished my flagstone, and was just aboutto post pics ( had the tub first, finished patio second)

If you have trouble with the sand coming loose, like you mentioned, I may have a solution. depends on how mine holds up, but I'm happy being a guinea pig.

happy soaking!!!!!

So far, so good with the sand (little messy when it rains).  I'm curious, what is your solution for the sand?

[anne]

I bought "polymeric sand" that has adhesive in it. The gravel and sand under the flagstone is normal gravel and paver sand. then for the last 1/2-3/4 inch around the stone, I put polymeric sand. When wet, it hardens to something very resistant to erosion and shifting, but would crack apart more easily than mortar if I wanted to disassemble it. It was a bit of a PITA b/c you have to sweep it in very carefully, leaving nothing on the rock surface, than water it very lightly over and over so it does not get blown out of the cracks, but for a rookie like me, was more forgiving than mortaring.

We'll see what it looks like in 5 years, tho. Dunno!

[drewstar]

Folks in Tennessee don't take kindly to harassment.

Terminator

Aeeeeei! (Screaming like homer Simpson and running away, hands faling widly in the air)

[TN__HOT_TUB]

I bought "polymeric sand" that has adhesive in it. The gravel and sand under the flagstone is normal gravel and paver sand. then for the last 1/2-3/4 inch around the stone, I put polymeric sand. When wet, it hardens to something very resistant to erosion and shifting, but would crack apart more easily than mortar if I wanted to disassemble it. It was a bit of a PITA b/c you have to sweep it in very carefully, leaving nothing on the rock surface, than water it very lightly over and over so it does not get blown out of the cracks, but for a rookie like me, was more forgiving than mortaring.

We'll see what it looks like in 5 years, tho. Dunno!

Sounds like the ol "dry mortor" method.  I've heard of Portland Cement and sand mixture for such things as well.

Both methods encourage being careful to not get any on the rocks as it will dry.  I've heard of folks using a large mortor piping bag (similar to icing a cake) to apply between the cracks.

[mattNY]

Rest assured, if there are ever two "real" honies in my tub and my wife isn't one of them, then I'm in big trouble.  Especially if there are photos and the photos make it to the internet.  

By the way, we had a ball playing in the hot tub.  Not exactly therapeutic with those two honies.  I'm waiting for my wife to get home before giving the tub it's true first dip.

Hahaha.  At least the love you get from those honies is genuine, right?

Glad you (and the rest of your household) are enjoying it!!

[anne]

Sounds like the ol "dry mortor" method.  I've heard of Portland Cement and sand mixture for such things as well.

Both methods encourage being careful to not get any on the rocks as it will dry.  I've heard of folks using a large mortor piping bag (similar to icing a cake) to apply between the cracks.

yep. I was afraid to just mix mortar in with sand and then get it wet since I had no idea what proportion to add. So I paid way too much for prepared stuff. It is different then mortar in that it is almost "gluey" till it dries and then has a tiny bit of spring to it once dry. Very weird stuff.

[TN__HOT_TUB]

we'll probably do something similar soon, but for now i'm still adding sand in spots.  

i'm finding that the dry sand makes a mess after it rains, which i don't want to track into my tub (can somebody say foot bath?).

yep. I was afraid to just mix mortar in with sand and then get it wet since I had no idea what proportion to add. So I paid way too much for prepared stuff. It is different then mortar in that it is almost "gluey" till it dries and then has a tiny bit of spring to it once dry. Very weird stuff.