Straight out the trailer thread

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Hot tub was Craigslist free. Picked it up w my atv trailer (that I made from a pop up camper frame).

At first, I got the hot tub in and looked at the spec and it says 50amp and when I had run the sub panel a summer before I’d done 30amp. So before I can even test it I had to dig a hole in my yard and pull new wires through the conduit. Needless to say spending $300 on upgraded wiring to even test this thing was a bit unnerving.

Finally get the wires ran and the breakers sized up and can finally turn on the tub - nothing. Had some twin babies so I took them to the Home Depot and ‘forgot’ the breakers in their stroller. Jfc breakers are expensive. Anyways now the tub is turned on and Just buzzes a bit. Undeterred I pull the capacitors off the motors and the spades break right off. Check the jacuzzi website and like $30 a cap. Check the serial # and it’s a $2.33 from an electrical supply place.

$6 later I got the pump running. Let run one day and the water is frigid - no heat.

Leaking water real bad. I grease up the big connections at the heater and pump with wheel bearing grease. A bunch of the jets are snapped off so I add hoses/bolts/clamps. Where I can’t clamp off I stuff silicone bathroom caulk in.

Running better, less leaks.

Still no heat - Open the panel and there’s just a wire hanging around and I trace it back to a sensor on a pipe somewhere - inside the panel the connector had fallen off so I tighten it up and stick back on - red light - heat runs.

I guess when they’d built this thing in the factory their idea of insulation is garbage bags stuffed with blown in fiberglass - and it’s all deteriorated/split and spilled all inside the cabinet. Took a good 5 hours to blow/suck all that green nasty shit out. When I tried to grab it out it would disintegrate in my hands. I had that shit all over the garage and had to leaf blower it into the alley way.

I redid the insulation with eps 1.5” foam board.

It fits nicely between the studs. Can’t go any thicker. I saw some hot tubs with the blown in expanding foam stuff but then you’re fucked if something leaks which of course it will. 1.5” isn’t much in terms of r rating but it sure seemed hot when I was crawling inside the cabinet on the wall side to put in the last few boards and duck tape it up.

The wall mural is a few furring strips and 8ft x 6ft of drywall. Mudded the seam x2 coat and primered. Rolled on super cheapass eBay mt Fuji mural. J bead edge trim to get a finished drywall edge and I used it to go over the mural edge. I was thinking about doing a more extravagant window casing trim but it would’ve been like $60 vs the $10 of j bead.


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Uh ya that’s what it looks like. I just had a roll of 14/2 and just ran another wire to get the runner wire - should be red I guess or have some tape on it if you wanted to be technical.


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hey king sadapopinski did you ever go through with the plan to poison the balloon wine when your inlaws came over you never updated that thread
 
Next up is I got some tile at .50 sq ft on sale. I’m gonna do a 8x8 ft area between the tub and the man door to the backyard so my feet don’t get all dirty on the nasty concrete floor after banging my Japanese milf in the sex tub.

I’ll add a towel rack and a table next to the tub so I got a spot to sit my brewskies while soaking. Probably run an outlet box over there too so I can do a mini fridge and a radio.

I got extra electric conduit so I’ll use that for a towel rack I think?

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