An Off-Grid Island Cottage in Minaki, Ontario
A Large Wood Fired on the deck of an off-grid island cottage in Minaki, Ontario: filled from the lake, used most summer days, and closed up for a minus 40 winter with a routine worth copying.
Wilson's Coastal Club, St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia
Eight wood fired hot tubs on the shore of St. Margaret's Bay, each drained, cleaned and refilled with Atlantic sea water pumped straight from the bay for every reservation. How a small cottage resort thirty minutes from Halifax runs the most demanding tub program we know of.
Riverside Cabin on the Ten Mile River, Catskills New York
A wood fired AlumiTub on the Ten Mile River in the western Catskills: four years at a busy guest cabin, refilled from the river every week, with a cold plunge down the bank. Owner and photographer Jennifer MacFarlane in her own words, with her photographs.
Are Hot Tubs Worth It? A Real Owner Perspective
The honest answer is that it depends on whether you will use it, and owners who use theirs say the same things: it changed how much time they spend outside, and with the people they spend it with. What it costs, what it asks, and what twenty years of owners say back.
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.