outdoor whirlpool

Mike Thomas_2

If it is really too expensive to heat with electricity in the winter, the tub is not insulated properly. Shouldn't be more than $30-35 per month. It would be cheaper to replace the tub with a good one than try to heat an inferior one.

Bob_36

I was over my son's house yesterday for a birthday party sitting in the hot tub sipping on a g&t. Someone asked how it was in the winter enjoying the hot tub.My son said the electric bills were way too high to keep it going through the winter to heat the water. My brother-inlaw said you ought run it through the new heating system. That's when I thought, I wonder if there was some way to rig up a heat exchanger and run a glycol line out there to at least boost the heating process. So if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears.

hot_rod

Depends on the cost of the fuel

that the heating system operates on. And the efficiency of the heater. In the end electric may be the least expensive energy source.

Keeping a tub full of warm water, outside, in the cold winter's is going to cost you.

I've always been intrigued by those wood fired snorkle stoves that drop into a hot tub. If you have access to fire wood... a wood fired tub would warm you twice

hot rod