Um, yay?

[mrissa]

Yesterday I got stubborn about calling electricians. We have had a hot tub not-hooked-up on the back porch for too long. This morning one of the electricians called back: could he stop by to do the estimate in about fifteen minutes? Sure, we said. He was here in five. He's starting work tomorrow morning, and he's charging significantly less than the not-calling-back guy estimated, and the stuff he says is necessary makes sense (putting the other outlets in the room on GFI circuits) rather than sounding totally arbitrary and weird.

I'm a little dazed that this actually worked. timprov says, "You feel like you charged headfirst into the breach and found the door open?" Yah. That. Now I have to get some lunch in me so I can go down to the Saturn dealership and have them make sure my car's not going to break soon. I've finished Disco for the Departed, so I'll need a couple new books to bring with me, and probably a new paper journal, too. And some fruit leather. I travel prepared.

Hot tub hot tub hot tub! Woooo!

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I suspect this means there are openings for more electricians to work the metro area. But it would be a lot of work to get certified to do it professionally, and a lot of expense to equip to get started, and then it wouldn't pay as well as software, so I don't think I'm going to be the new electrician on the block.

Good you found one that seems to be ready to work. Possibly the really best ones are all overbooked -- but the *really* best ones at least return calls, because they're good businessmen too. And what you're getting done isn't complicated; needs competence, not unusual skill.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I'm glad to have someone who knows what permits the city requires for a new 220 line, that sort of thing, but I don't see a huge need for finesse here.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Are you putting in an exhaust vent/fan? When I was house hunting I saw a back porch that was suffering water damage from condensed hot tub vapors. (since it'd be silly to have one and not run it in the winter)

Yay tub!!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We've got fans in there, and I expect the doors will be open a significant amount of the time that it's being used in the winter -- as skzbrust says below, the hot/cold is part of the point.

[skzbrust.livejournal.com]

I have often speculated about whether it would be possible to live without a hot tub. I mean, I've never thought about trying to do so, just idly wondered if such a thing were possible.

Congratulations!

Indoor or outdoor? Both have advantages, of course.

The feeling of being in 98 degree water from the neck down and 0 degree air from the neck up is something I particularly love.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's sort of both indoor and outdoor, sort of neither: we have a glassed-in porch that isn't on the central air/heating. So it's sheltered -- we won't get to sit in the hot tub with snowflakes falling on our heads, which is kind of a shame -- but not all that climate-controlled. The glass in the porch is doors, so we can just fling them all open to get the hot water/frozen air sensation when we ant it. (I love that, too.)

The other advantage to this setup is that we really hadn't been using that space for very much. The people who lived here before us put a table and chairs out there and took all their meals out there in the summer, but it's not adjacent to the kitchen, so we'd have to carry everything down the hall and through the living room and then back again. We are just not that motivated, with the exception of two large dinners we've had out there. And while they call it a three-season porch, you've lived in Minnesota -- you know they don't actually mean nine months of the year when they say that.

So the porch was party overflow, sort of, and I would throw the Christmas tree out there, and that was it. My grandma asked where I was going to put the tree now. I said, "Next to the hot tub, I guess." My grandma finds me funny a lot, but I'm not always sure of why.