Yukon Mike
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Yep. Heater calved. Sprung a leak. Froze up. Big mess.
It was an older tub to begin with and I've nursed it along for several years now but this was the one that did it. The last time it froze up it cost me $1500 and took the guy a year and a half to fix it, so this time, I signed a do not resuscitate order and just let it slip away peacefully.
But today was the day to move it to the dump and what a job! Me and Jane did it with a floor jack, a jack-all, some straps and a come-along. It took all day. We pulled it up on to a skidoo trailer and took it to the dump. Of course I hurt my back a few times too. Just take a guess at how much a frozen up hot tub would weigh? TWELVE HUNDRED POUNDS! I still can't believe it. I paid to haul water to the dump.
Note to self - NEVER buy a used hot tub ever again. I bought it about 6 years ago from an ad in the paper. "HOT TUB - $1000". I went over to look at it, it looked OK and the woman said I could have it for $500 if I took it that day. Like the fool I am I said OK and hauled it away. It needed a bit of fiberglass touching up so I took it to the the one and only fiberglass place in town. My buddy Doug came out and said, "Hi Mike. What are you doing with Jamie's hot tub?"
I said, "Pardon?"
"That's Jamie's (the fiberglass shop owner) hot tub."
I said, "I bought off some chic named Michelle."
"That *&^%! She's selling his stuff! Was his quad still in the yard? Did you see his sheep horns? Was his skidoo there?...."
Seems Jamie and Michelle were in a "transitional phase" the day I bought the tub. Not wanting to get in the middle, I left the tub on my trailer there. A week later I went back to get the trailer and Jamie gave me $600 for the tub. But he needed it on the trailer for a while longer until he decided what to do with it.
A month went by and I really needed that trailer so Jamie sold the tub back to me for $1000 - because I'm stupid. I took it to the hot tub guy and told him the story and he laughed his ass off and agreed to fix whatever was wrong with the tub for no more than $1000 IF I let him work on it at his pace. He had it for over a year. It turns out it had been frozen and he had to replace all the lines and re insulate it.
Eventually we got it back and it has been a PITA ever since. We've enjoyed it when it was working but most of the time it has been broken. I'm glad to be free of it actually.
But if you ever take any advice in your life here it is...
NEVER BUY A USED HOT TUB.
Especially from some woman named Michelle.
That is my sermon for today,
Mike
It was an older tub to begin with and I've nursed it along for several years now but this was the one that did it. The last time it froze up it cost me $1500 and took the guy a year and a half to fix it, so this time, I signed a do not resuscitate order and just let it slip away peacefully.
But today was the day to move it to the dump and what a job! Me and Jane did it with a floor jack, a jack-all, some straps and a come-along. It took all day. We pulled it up on to a skidoo trailer and took it to the dump. Of course I hurt my back a few times too. Just take a guess at how much a frozen up hot tub would weigh? TWELVE HUNDRED POUNDS! I still can't believe it. I paid to haul water to the dump.
Note to self - NEVER buy a used hot tub ever again. I bought it about 6 years ago from an ad in the paper. "HOT TUB - $1000". I went over to look at it, it looked OK and the woman said I could have it for $500 if I took it that day. Like the fool I am I said OK and hauled it away. It needed a bit of fiberglass touching up so I took it to the the one and only fiberglass place in town. My buddy Doug came out and said, "Hi Mike. What are you doing with Jamie's hot tub?"
I said, "Pardon?"
"That's Jamie's (the fiberglass shop owner) hot tub."
I said, "I bought off some chic named Michelle."
"That *&^%! She's selling his stuff! Was his quad still in the yard? Did you see his sheep horns? Was his skidoo there?...."
Seems Jamie and Michelle were in a "transitional phase" the day I bought the tub. Not wanting to get in the middle, I left the tub on my trailer there. A week later I went back to get the trailer and Jamie gave me $600 for the tub. But he needed it on the trailer for a while longer until he decided what to do with it.
A month went by and I really needed that trailer so Jamie sold the tub back to me for $1000 - because I'm stupid. I took it to the hot tub guy and told him the story and he laughed his ass off and agreed to fix whatever was wrong with the tub for no more than $1000 IF I let him work on it at his pace. He had it for over a year. It turns out it had been frozen and he had to replace all the lines and re insulate it.
Eventually we got it back and it has been a PITA ever since. We've enjoyed it when it was working but most of the time it has been broken. I'm glad to be free of it actually.
But if you ever take any advice in your life here it is...
NEVER BUY A USED HOT TUB.
Especially from some woman named Michelle.
That is my sermon for today,
Mike
