Lazy Spa - Hot tub

Sounds brilliant mate. Hope it works out well.

About the same as a night out.

Still sounds decent value for money.

So the sun has caused our Monaco to go pop today. Quite a large split. Looks like there was a weak or soft spot so it bubbled then split based on the wrinkly vinyl making it look like it stretched first.

The Monaco is one that has to be inflated to a fairly high pressure. We did put a parasol over it but not good enough, if I had thought I should have let some air out. I had thought the water might act as a bit of a heat sink. I'd been worried about the egg (turned off) and the lid, not the liner.

Kicker is we'd used it once this year at the weekend!!

Question is can these things be fixed? It's beyond a puncture repair kit but could it be vinyl welded somewhere? It's £700 for the same one!!

I assume over the last few days hot tub owners will have had the heating on their tubs turned off so they had somewhere cooler to dunk?

Anyone successfully managed to extend the pipes for air and water? I want to see if I can move it a a few meters.

Seems interest in Hot Tubs has fallen off a cliff. I have a nice clean Lay-Z-Spa I'm trying to sell on marketplace...almost no interest.
I guess now everyone's back at work, combined with the cost to heat the things has consigned them to history.

On eBay, it's very clear that some retailers/warehouses are trying to get rid of stock.
The 'proper' tubs could be a very good secondhand purchase, on the basis that they are better insulated than the inflatable ones?

I'm having a play with attaching a heat pump that I bought earlier in the year for the garden pool which due to the weather we've not bothered putting up this year. The idea is to make use of our excess solar to heat more efficiently. It's the first day using this, so no real feed-back other than it's annoyingly 'noisy'.

The pipe connections are not great - this would need improving if it were to become a permanent feature.



Heat pump - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09D7KMMBW/

Love our inflatable hot tub but given the money and an idea of what I want out garden to look like. Long term, I'd definitely have a proper hot tub. More to buy but far better long term insulation etc so likely to be cheaper overall.

My pal has a spare lazy spa lid that fits our so going to see how I can insulate better, maybe
Using thermal foil insulation roll and polystyrene balls etc, see bo much difference it makes.

I'm also tempted to use some hose pipe and a slow pump to recycle our hot tub water in the summer. Save paying loads for electric.