Recent content by ForceFed70

Hello everyone and welcome to my redneck HotTub build thread. :wave: Background: My family owns a rustic cabin up at a mountain lake in the woods. Being that it's a mountain lake in Canada it's often quite cold up there! I want to build a hot tub for use while we've visiting the cabin. The...

Great info! Thank-you all!

Thank-you! I hope to use thermosiphon to circulate the water through the boiler into the tub with no pump involved. It requires careful design, but should be doable. The cabin does have a rudimentary 12V solar power system and I could install a low volume 12V pump if it comes to it...

Thanks so much all! Whoa. OK, it's apparent I'm going to need to do some research. So no easy button on this eh? Even tho it's only 5 days I'll need to do water testing, etc? Unfortunately, nothing is built yet. I'm still in the design and material gathering stage and don't have any...

Hi All, Hoping you can help with getting me started on treating the water in a redneck hot tub which I'm currently building for the family cabin. The core components being a plastic 300 gallon livestock tank and a wood fired water heater/boiler made of steel and copper. I've done some...