{"id":1780,"date":"2020-12-31T20:48:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T01:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorennason.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2020-12-31T20:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T01:48:44","slug":"diy-wooden-hot-tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorennason.com\/2020\/12\/diy-wooden-hot-tub\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Wooden Hot Tub"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have an addiction to soaking in hot water (as do most people). I don’t know when this started, maybe as a child taking a bath. My hot water addiction goes further as I want to soak in natural hot springs in nature. Fiberglass \/ cement hot tubs fill the need if that is all that is available, but nothing beats a dirty smelly hot tub in volcanic areas of the north western USA. After my last epic solo hot springs trip in 2018 I made a goal to build my own unique hot tub for my back yard. I have met that goal with version 1.<\/p>\n

The plan started with a tape outline and a piece of wood on the ground. I made the angle of the back at 35 degrees. Roughly the same as most bath tubs.<\/p>\n

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I then started to plan out the base. I glued 2 – 2x10x8 and 1 2x8x8 yellow pine boards for the bottom. This picture is of 3 2x8x8 but after fitting them together I wanted a tad more space plus room to build up the walls.<\/p>\n

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Time to start making the walls\/sides of the tub. This part took me some time until I finally settled on a brick type of pattern. I wanted to use full length board but that would be too hard to make the curves for front and back. I experimented with 4×4’s but those were douglas fir and the color sucked. I ended up taking 2x10x8’s and ripping \/ cross cutting them into small 2×6 inch blocks. Then around the ends for the curves i would cut each piece to fit.<\/p>\n\n\t\t