How to Handle Water Access for a Wood Fired Hot Tub
Filling and emptying a hot tub at a property with no tap. Lake, river, rainwater and hauled water, what each means for water care, and how filtration changes the calculation.
Wood Fired Hot Tubs for Off-Grid Living: The Complete Guide
Everything an off-grid hot tub has to get right: getting it there without a crane, filling it from a lake, a well, a tank or the ocean, heating it with no electricity, holding heat through real winters, and how the main tub types compare on each. Then what to verify before buying any of them.
About the Hot Tub Journal
The Hot Tub Journal is AlumiTubs' guide to outdoor living with a cedar hot tub, whatever heats it. It covers choosing between wood fired, electric and hybrid heating; sizing a tub and what one costs to run; where to put it, from a city deck to an island cabin, and how it gets there; what an electric hot tub needs from a site and how the equipment is housed; how a wood burning hot tub works and how long it takes to heat; onsen rituals, cold plunges and soaking after a workout; and what it is like to own a tub for twenty years, told by the people who do. Most of it is written for anyone weighing up a hot tub, not only an AlumiTub owner.
Every AlumiTub is a riveted 5052 marine-grade aluminum structure clad in Canadian Western Red Cedar, handcrafted on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia since 2001 and backed by a 25 year structural warranty. Three heating systems share the same tub: the Electric, which holds a set temperature on a schedule and needs no fire; the Wood Fired, which needs no power and heats a Standard in about three hours; and the Hybrid, which does both. Water care has its own home in the Water Care Academy.
Start with the guide to heating options, hot tub dimensions and sizes, or the electric cedar hot tub.