For tub owners: Do you winterize your tub?????
For handypersons: any suggestions to down below????
We are debating on it this year.... It's either winterize it or build an enclosure for it.
Here is where our hottub is:
(pic was the day we lifted it up there, fun stuff....suffice to say, if we ever sell the house, the tub is staying LOL....anyways, of course, there's a railing now)
It is right off our bedroom
Last yr come winter time, we ended up putting some plastic up.... which helped and got it so we could use the tub from time to time, but then we got some wind which stretched out the plastic and eventually ripped it.
So I can count on 2 hands how many times we used it last winter.
This yr it is either close it down for the winter OR build something along the 2 sides (the other two are against the house and we do have a roof over the tub).
Ideas we've toyed with:
louvers: Home Depot sells these, they use fenceboards and make "shutters". Looks nice, but it is expensive. Positives: can be used all yr round (open or close them as needed), look nice. Negatives: louvers are pricey, wood is pricey...
Plastic/Lexan: Make frames and have "portable" pieces that we screw up in the fall, and take down in the spring. Could possibly leave some of em up, but not all. The side on the left, we have no prob covering permanently....but the one facing out we like to leave open for a view. Again, price is an issue.
and other suggestions? Plastic is a no. I live in Canada, winters are NOT kind. The wind stretches the plastic (doesn't matter how thick it is, or how supported it is), the ice will rip the plastic, etc. We don't want it ugly, but it doesn't have to be beautiful either.
Thanks for any suggestions.
For handypersons: any suggestions to down below????
We are debating on it this year.... It's either winterize it or build an enclosure for it.
Here is where our hottub is:
(pic was the day we lifted it up there, fun stuff....suffice to say, if we ever sell the house, the tub is staying LOL....anyways, of course, there's a railing now)
It is right off our bedroom
Last yr come winter time, we ended up putting some plastic up.... which helped and got it so we could use the tub from time to time, but then we got some wind which stretched out the plastic and eventually ripped it.
So I can count on 2 hands how many times we used it last winter.
This yr it is either close it down for the winter OR build something along the 2 sides (the other two are against the house and we do have a roof over the tub).
Ideas we've toyed with:
louvers: Home Depot sells these, they use fenceboards and make "shutters". Looks nice, but it is expensive. Positives: can be used all yr round (open or close them as needed), look nice. Negatives: louvers are pricey, wood is pricey...
Plastic/Lexan: Make frames and have "portable" pieces that we screw up in the fall, and take down in the spring. Could possibly leave some of em up, but not all. The side on the left, we have no prob covering permanently....but the one facing out we like to leave open for a view. Again, price is an issue.
and other suggestions? Plastic is a no. I live in Canada, winters are NOT kind. The wind stretches the plastic (doesn't matter how thick it is, or how supported it is), the ice will rip the plastic, etc. We don't want it ugly, but it doesn't have to be beautiful either.
Thanks for any suggestions.