Hot Tub Forum
Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: Backpains on July 25, 2005, 10:14:52 am
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as far as chems.......water.......or anything else with your hot tubs??
You all are gonna love this one...While in the tub yesterday afternoon I noticed a slight white line just above the water line, I decided taht maybe if I cleaned it would take care of the problem. So I proceed to go in the house and get a bowl of warm water , not even thinking I dropped a few drops of dish soap in the water...I took the bowl outside and started cleaning, I was doing realllll good and got myself inside the tub to get the back part of the tub (my side walls are a little bit to close to the sides of the hot tub so I can't fit inbetween and have to completely take off a panel of the wall th get back to the back of the tub to get the cover once a week it's a pain!) Here I am in the hot tub, bathing suit on (by the way why didn't anyone tell me that the hot tubs have a tendency of bleaching your suits? ohh and I don't bath nude until evening when it's dark outside otherwise the neighbor kids get a show) scrubbing the sides of the tub to get the what I would call a white line above the water line off. anyway to make a long story short...I was done with the entire tub turned around to grab the bowl..and WOSH it falls in the tub! OMG OMG I'm panicing about this time yelling at my hubby telling him we got big problems and to go get the defoamer. Jets got bumped on in the process of all this mess and whosh we have a bubble bath now!!!!!!!! Lesson of this story is........DO NOT PUT DISH SOAP IN YOUR WATER, if you scrub your topline above the waterline...just use plain water people or be very carful not to get it in the water!!!!! LOL
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Stupidest thing with the hot tub?
Well there was this one time my wife came home and found me in the tub with half a dozen korean hookers....that was prettys stupid of me, but I'd rather not get into that at the moment. 8).
I've left drain vales open when trying to fill the tub.
I've locked myself out of the house while outside in the tub, in the middle of Feb, late at night druing a snow storm, naked.
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Stupidest thing with the hot tub?
Well there was this one time my wife came home and found me in the tub with half a dozen korean hookers....that was prettys stupid of me, but I'd rather not get into that at the moment. 8).
I've left drain vales open when trying to fill the tub.
I've locked myself out of the house while outside in the tub, in the middle of Feb, late at night druing a snow storm, naked.
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Thank you drew for making me laugh today!! It's just not a good day for me but, thanks for the laugh hun. and I hope NOT to lock myself out of the house cause that would be realllly bad since there is NO extra key(gee maybe this is a hint to get one and put it in the hot tub room? ) and hubby works like 30 min away! You know how I drained mine? I took the hose put it in the bottom of the tub like I was going to fill it...and then turned on the hose on the other end (of course it was hooked to the spicket of the house) and then after about 1 min..I turned it off and unhooked it from the house and laid it on the grass....it drained in about 3 hours. Next time hubby wants to try the drain valves see which on is going to be quicker
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I've locked myself out of the house while outside in the tub, in the middle of Feb, late at night druing a snow storm, naked.
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I think Stuart has a story like that. I know when I read it on here, I started rolling on the floor. I will have to search for it.
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http://www.whatsthebest-hottub.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=wtb-hottub;action=display;num=1099143546;start=0
This should be the thread discussed earlier.
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recently?
was topping off the water, as we had 4 adults in the tub and lost some water the previous night, and the phone rang. it was a good friend i hadn't spoken to in months as he moved out of the area. we proceeded to catch up on missed time.....
about 30 mins later, had that smack you forehead type moment, ran back outside to find the tub overflowing of course, and the surrounding lawn VERY well watered.....
naked tub stories seem pretty common, i've noticed. i didnt lock myself out or anything (have a spare key outside on the deck-THANKS DREWSKI !)
BUT.....
my neighbor put in a sunsetter type power awning to go with the new pool. for some reason he thought that something like airplane landind lights were a good addition to the outside rim of the awning. now his pool looks almost like daytime, even at night.
i discovered this one relaxing evening. i usually wear a pair of shorts into the tub, remove them and hang them on the side by the control pad. apparently gravity took over and my shorts fell onto the deck. my tub is not recessed in to the deck so its not possible to just reach out and grab them. as its usually quite dark, even this would not have much of an issue. of course at 10:00pm it suddenly became "daytime", and i was kinda "caught in the spotlights". as i looked around, i became very aware that night of exactly how many of my neighbors actually have windows facing my backyard.
did the quick tuck and roll and grabbed my towel of the rack. havent had a visists from local law enforcement, or cute neighbor comments, so i think i got away with it this time.....i now have some roll down bamboo type blinds for those times that a little privacy is needed.....
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Many many years ago I was giving a demo for a customer on a spa that had a pressure side filter. As I was showing him how easy it was to spin the locking off and open the lid to clean the filter, the timer clicked on and the spa fired up. All of a sudden I had water going everywhere and the pressure was too strong for me to get the filter lid back on to seal it. I had to yell for a co-worker to kill the breaker. Needless to say, I was soaked. There was water everywhere and when I looked at the customer he said " OK, thanks" and walked out.
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And then there was the time just a few weeks ago when the dealer's tech came out to install the ozinator. We where talking about the tub and going over it's features.
I was playing with the waterfall diverter valve and started to spin the locking flange around the valve. "Perhaps this also adjusts the pressue to the water fall?" I thought to myself. Nope. It loosened the valve, and it flew off as water spewed out at a very high velocity, soaking me. My embarraessed wife rolled her eyes. I just laughed.
The tech chuckeled and told me that during a training course, another tech had done the exact same thing, except it was in the dead of winter and they were outside at the time. The poor guy had to go home as ice was forming on his soaked clothes.
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Stupidest thing with the hot tub?
Well there was this one time my wife came home and found me in the tub with half a dozen korean hookers....that was prettys stupid of me, but I'd rather not get into that at the moment. 8).
hummmm why would she call you dumb for that....unless there were cheaper by the dozen.... ;)
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hummmm why would she call you dumb for that....unless there were cheaper by the dozen.... ;)
Cleaning the tub was a pain too. I recomemed bleach. ;)
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Well there was yesterday....
Cutting grass in the backyard next to my almost brand new soon-to-be-traded-in-for-full-value-on-a-Nuage Vita Joli, when the lawnmower picked up a stick and BAM!!!, a hole in the side panel of the spa.
So now I will buy my dealer a new panel to keep him from taking a bigger loss on my trade in.
The Nuage shows up this week!!!
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Stupidest thing with the hot tub?
I've left drain vales open when trying to fill the tub.
I've locked myself out of the house while outside in the tub, in the middle of Feb, late at night druing a snow storm, naked.
The first I did twice. ;D
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Try a little bit of baking soda for the ring the next time.
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Try a little bit of baking soda for the ring the next time.
Baking soda????????? Like Bill it was I wouldn't call it a scum line...more like the lines we get in the house on our faucets, I rubbed on it in a spot but it just came back when I did the Soap and water treatment to it...it went away. but I've not heard of using baking soda..wouldn't that raise my PH?
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...And then there was this one time, when the inlet cover had fallen off, and I was in the tub all alone, naked, and feeling a bit well...randy....I had a few beers and I kept looking at that inlet, and after all, it t had been a awhile since I had any um, " relations" and the next think I know well....let me just say, you should always be within reach of the circuit breaker, power switch and you should never stick ANYTHIING in the inlet valve. :o
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I think Stuart has a story like that. I know when I read it on here, I started rolling on the floor. I will have to search for it.
NOPE, sorry! It was me... LORD, I have to embareass myself yet once again.... Click here (http://www.whatsthebest-hottub.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=wtb-hottub;action=display;num=1102435655;start=0) for a good laugh.
Drewski
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Gee, this is such great timing considering my story occurred just this weekend.
I don't know, maybe it's fairly common, but after talking to my dealer on Friday who was coming out the next day to set up my spa, I decided I'd do him a favor and have it filled with water before he got here.
So Friday night, I set the hose in and turn it on. I figured I'd check it in 45 minutes, left and watched some TV. Of course, I'm feeling antsy and want to check it out early. 20 minutes, 25 minutes, 30 minutes. No! It won't be filled by then. I'll just wait the full 45 minutes.
45 minutes finally rolls around and I go out to the spa. Other than the spa, there's no electrical yet so I have no lights to turn on but I can see enough from the street lights that the tub is slowly filling. My wife and I then noticed the sound of running water. Hmmm....that shouldn't be... We looked down and notice the drain plug is spewing water just like a garden hose. ???
Momentary panic! I play the little Dutch boy, with my finger in the dike while my wife gets a flashlight to look at the manual. (MANUAL! I DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' MANUAL!)
I find that we should have closed the drain valve first. :o They leave it open in case the spa sits through the winter. Fortunately, no damage was done and the tub completed filling in no time.
Don't like that story? Give me time. I'm sure I'll come up with an even better stupid thing before too long!
Phil
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In defense of myself after Chris brought up my Halloween tale in conjunction with Drewski's and drewstar's, I thought I had better re-post the story so that everyone would understand that Chris meant the "Naked" part relating....Not the "intimate with the suction" part! ;) ;D
This topic has enticed me to share a story that I may be sorry for but I can’t help myself.
Many years ago I lived in a duplex and had an old HS Classic in the backyard. These places where less then 20ft apart and had little to no privacy so a “birthday suit” was not an option most of the time.
This particular night it was about midnight, I had used the spa earlier in the day and hung my wet swimsuit out the backdoor on a nail, I wanted to get in the spa yet had no desire to put on a wet, cold suit so I reasoned that everyone would be in bed anyway so in the nude I went. The soak went well but as I got out and started to close the cover the little old lady behind me turned on here floodlight and put me on “runway display”.
Now before I go any further you need a mental image; I was a competitive weightlifter and boxer with a long curly mop of hair and am covered in hair from head to toe. Needless to say I looked like a “Neanderthal” with all of that hair plastered to me!
I turned to run into the house and slipped and fell, trying to regain balance and run at the same time I found myself running on all fours! :-X
Thirty minuets later the local police knocked on my door and basically fell into one another laughing when I answered the door in a towel. Amidst their laughing and chuckling they were able to explain that they had a call from a hysterical woman sobbing that there was a “Werewolf” running loose! They said they didn’t know whether to send Animal control or police at that point. Believe me, for the next year in our little town, our local police had a lot of fun with me on that one! :-[
Sorry if I’ve traumatized any of you with this story but hey, it is Halloween! ;D ;D 8)
Please don't confuse Drewski with Drewstar in this topic!!! :o ;)
drewstar buddy, You’re a sick man! ;D ;D ;D 8)
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as far as chems.......water.......or anything else with your hot tubs??
You all are gonna love this one...I don't bath nude until evening when it's dark outside otherwise the neighbor kids get a show) LOL
Backpains, I thought we talked about this long ago, those kids have been calling for the last 6 weeks telling us what's been going on over there. I told you to use a bathrobe! ;D ;D ;D
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NOPE, sorry! It was me... LORD, I have to embareass myself yet once again.... Click here (http://www.whatsthebest-hottub.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=wtb-hottub;action=display;num=1102435655;start=0) for a good laugh.
Drewski
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Drewski,
After reading that tonight I laughed just as hard as I did the first time I read it. IN fact I printed it, Thanks.
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Please don't confuse Drewski with Drewstar in this topic!!! :o ;)
drewstar buddy, You’re a sick man! ;D ;D ;D 8)
Oh come on! We've all done it. whether you admit it, or not.
(cue Austin Powers voice) I don't even know what this is! This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby. ;)
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Backpains, I thought we talked about this long ago, those kids have been calling for the last 6 weeks telling us what's been going on over there. I told you to use a bathrobe! ;D ;D ;D
JD Let me tell ya..last night I and hubby were doing our nightly soak. Both of us knew that the kids were gone for the week so..I conned him into going nude, he informed me when we got out (btw the soak was a great one! If you get my meaning ;) ;D :o or maybe you don't want that mental image!) hubby informed me that he WOULD have a bath robe by this winter LOLOLOL
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Buying a thermalpane hottub! Doh!
Kidding. :)
But something stupid when down last week. We've been going through a long heatwave, averaging 109 every day for the last 3 weeks. Needless to say, sitting in the spa just ain't as fun as it used to be, damm water gets so hot, I decided to leave the cover open one day and maybe get it to cool off some.
Got home from work and saw that my plastic/rubber pieces (skimmer, neckpads) had all blistered to some degree from the heat.
Live and learn.
I have since drained my spa and will wait till heat wave is over to refill. Heck, my swimming pool's temp is almost 100.
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The first time I turned on my NEW tub I noticed a few seats weren't working. I got frantic about this POS that I just bought ... should have bought a Sundance or Hot Springs ... my dealer BETTER get here ASAP ... you name it.
My youngest (10 YO) turned off the jets, he likes the feel of one jet with all the flow going to it. THANKFULLY I didn't call the dealer.
And Drewski, I'm still thinking on where I want to hide that key just in case I do get locked out!
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OMG Vinny that reminds me of one again....The day my dealer brought our coleman over, after they had set the tub right where it needed to be at and hubby was busily getting the wiring hooked up....my dealer told me I want you to get in the tub and turn the jets on for me...so I get in the tub and not paying attention to what he's telling my hubby about the jets coming off. Well I did my job got the jets on...and got out of the tub. We started filling the tub and it was totally full in like 1 hour tops. We were standing there thinking gee why is that jet floating and low and behold I turned the jet in the therapy seat too far and waaa laaa it floated right out! I felt so embarrased that he had to show ME how the jets are suppose to go in.