Plans for wood buring hot tub?

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Does anyone know of a place where I can get good (preferable inexpensive!) plans for building a wood burning hot tub? Does anyone have any experiance with trying to build one? Thanks for your help!

Jason

P.S. If anyone knows of any free plans, it would be even better!

-- Jason Stern (2busytobe@home.com), March 17, 2001

Answers

Jason it is your turn. Do you want plans for a hot tub that burns wood or plans for a device that heats the contents of the tub using wood?

-- Lynn Goltz (lynngoltz@aol.com), March 17, 2001.

Jason: Here is a site that shows a wood burning rock spa that I built. The spa was built for under 400 bucks but that wood stove was expensive. I think I payed about 500 for it. Anyway if I can help just ask.....Kirk......http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/Garden/8784/Roc k2.html

-- Kirk Davis (kirkay@yahoo.com), March 17, 2001.

Kirk, is that flue comming right out of the water? It looks like that in the pic. Love the rocks and the way you did it. What kind of stove is that? We want to build one too, new place has tons of white rocks.

-- Cindy in Ky (solidrockranch@hotmail.com), March 18, 2001.

Thanks to everyone who responded! Lynn, in particular, I'm looking for plans on how to build a wood burning wooden hot tub, but I am open to other ideas (like Kirk's beautiful rock hot tub!). The stove I will probaly buy, but there is no reason I shouldn't be able to make the tub part myself. Some friends of mine have a very nice circualar wooden hot tub. It heats up quickly, and it's big enough for quite a few people (like 4 -6 I think). Only thing is I think they bought a kit and I can't ask them (or even study the tub to see how it was built) because I have since moved away from their area. Jason

-- Jason Stern (2busytobe@home.com), March 18, 2001.

try www.snorkel.com they build dedar, wood fired hot tubs. might give you some ideas.

-- jz (oz49us@yahoo.com), March 18, 2001.


Cindy: Thats the stove pipe sticking out of the water. At www.snorkel.com they show the submersible wood heater. It takes a bout 3 hours to heat a tub of cold water but its a treat. If you build a white rock tub maybe you could post a picture? Yours to Jason!!.....Kirk

-- Kirk Davis (kirkay@yahoo.com), March 19, 2001.

Jason- I came across this site a while back and was surprised that even though they are trying to sell their product, they provide plans online that someone could utilize. http://www.rhtubs.com/hottubs.htm Click on either Redwood or Teak hot tubs and early in the page is a link to assembly instructions. Good luck, Jack

-- jack (atl.jack@mailexcite.com), March 19, 2001.

Thanks Jack, It's just what I was looking for! It shouldn't be to hard to modify the instructions for a wood burning model and with me cutting my own pieces. I think I might order the metal bands from the website and then cut wood to fit the bands. To anyone else thinking of building a tub, this site is truly wonderful! They even list the size of the boards they use, so with a little creativity, the lengths can be easily figured out! Again, thanks to everyone who responded! Jason

-- Jason Stern (2busytobe@home.com), March 19, 2001.

Kirk, I am absolutely blown away by your hot tub. I can't believe the wood stove is under the water section. This is really getting me psyched to think about putting one of these in. I like the idea of hot tubs but the electric bill didn't thrill me. Wait til I show hubby this one. He'll flip.

-- Colleen (pyramidgreatdanes@erols.com), March 20, 2001.

I sent the link to a welder friend of mine, and said "Can you make me one of these?" He's used to welding like steel for wood stoves, not sure if he can weld the aluminum? It is a fantastic idea. Why can't you find an aluminum or whatever 55 gallon drum and set that in there somehow with a pipe? I want one. Hey Jason, are you going to build one big enough for ALL of us? he he he

-- Cindy in Ky (solidrockranch@hotmail.com), March 21, 2001.


Maybe :) , but I was thinking of making a wooden tub, even though the stone tub looks really nice. However, in the stone tub, the stove is not completely submerged, is it? You need one end sticking out of the side of the wall so that you can add more wood. Jason

-- Jason Stern (2busytobe@home.com), March 21, 2001.

Hi Can someone post a new address for this picture of the hot tub, when I try to access the current address it says it doesn't exist anymore. By the way, I'm from Northern Ireland and this is my first time on this site. It's great...

-- David Torbitt (davidtorbitt@hotmail.com), May 25, 2001.

http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/Garden/8784/Rock2.html

They accidently put a space in the address. Its a good thing I checked back here, I thought this question was long dead and gone! :)

-- Jason Stern (2busytobe@home.com), May 28, 2001.


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