My wife wants a spa pool

[Fatjim]

What brands/retailers are good options.

and I don't have $20K to spend as I'm a tight bastard.

[enigma51]

For 20k you can buy a nice bike.......... just putting it out there!

[mstriumph]

doesn't have to cost NEARLY that much ............ and it's the gift that goes on giving

SPman bought one about 18 months ago and we use it in all seasons ----- just great

so go ahead, you KNOW you want to!!
you have nothing to lose but your stress!!!

[Flatcap]

Nothing like sitting in a tepid pool of communal filth......

[mstriumph]

ours is just for us ..... and the water is filtered/changed/dosed regularly ...... no 'filth' here, mate, just greaaaaaaaaaat relaxation!!

[BuFfY]

My parents have a spa in their house back in NZ, so expensive with power and stuff.
They are fun for the first month or so, then you never use them. The one time I said I was about to have one they informed me it had been turned off for a few months. hmmm

[Fatjim]

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I should have known.

[k14]

Spa's are awesome, wish I had one. Yes they cost roughly $1 to $1.50 a day once you warm them up. Go to a place that sells them, best way to do it. Should be able to get something with 15-20 jets and room for 4 for about $6-9k. Or if you want to spend $15k you can get all the bells and whistles. Depends on how much you want to use it, the space you have for it etc.

[sunhuntin]

love spas! susan and i have one on the "to get" list. indoor or outdoor? indoor rocks, go from spa to shower. just lovely.

damnit... now i wish we were back at the hotel in wellington.

[Dak]

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I should have known.

Leisureite, NZ made and they use good quality electronics and parts. We have one of theirs and it hasn't let us down in 2 1/2 years so far. Be prepared for the cost though, the ads saying "$1 a day" are a load of crap. Hard to say exactly with ours as we got it at the same time we bought the house but I'd say more like $2.50 a day in power then you have to add the chemicals on top of that. We use Spa Poppits chemicals which are dead easy to use and odourless, no chlorine smell. It will take a bit of time to intially get your water balance sorted but after that it's easy.

[Skunk]

You can get a spa from $4000 and up. These are 'portable' so you set them up yourself. A mate of mine has one he got off TradeMe and set it up with solar heating as an assist. No pump needed as it thermo-cycles. Do you have a bank which you could place a solar panel down?

I think BBQ Factory has spas too. Can't think of the other place. Wife and I looked at them a couple of years ago. Never did anything further as every time she brought the subject up I'd just say 'no' and nothing more.

[mstriumph]

ours is in a sort of garden setting off the back verandah but still private and undercover ..... handy to the bathroom but not 'inside' ..... so we have the best of both worlds

[phantom]

http://kiwitub.co.nz/ is an interesing option

[vifferman]

We don't use ours. Come and rip it out.

Seriously (actually, I was sorta serious), the thing to do is to check out the energy requirements of potential candidates. Ours takes all day (well... nearly 5 hours) to heat up from cold, so it's expensive to run. It also has a humungous heater and pump, connected to a separate meter on the powerbox, so we know Eggs Zachary how much it costs to run.

Our neighbours used to use theirs literally EVERY day (it was in their back deck, with a view from it to the harbour), so although it cost them maybe $20-$25 or summat to run a month, they weren't heating it from cold. Plus it's a lot smaller'n ours.

The plus of ours is it's under the house (well.. under the first level, but level with the bedroom level) and so it's private, has speakers set up so you can listen to music, get pissed, get waterlogged, go wild...

Must resurrect it sometime....

[MIXONE]

Fuck for 20k I'd want it already filled with buxom babes.