These Portable Hot Tubs Are Just Plain Wrong!
Portable hot tubs have been around for years and are now quite refined but apparently some just aren’t portable, creative, or just plain trashy (pun intended) enough. So conformists beware! Napolean Dynamite (yep he’s pulling a Where’s Waldo in one of these) thinks these tubs rock!
1. The Great Dumpster Dive
It’s crafty and trashy all at once. This fella has taken a metal dumpster and retrofitted it into a homemade hot tub! What’s most impressive is that it seems to have all the necessary piping for some soothing jets and a convenient ladder – you won’t see any of that in your average DIY hot tub.
2. Igloo’s Plan B
Adults need not apply (unless you’re extremely small); however, this kid is King for a Day in his common Igloo Cooler turned not-so-common personal hot tub. Well done son – gold star.
3. Zero Points for Presentation
No, the shell of this hot tub clearly isn’t homemade but it’s still ghetto in its own right. Simply placed on the deck and deemed suitable, the owner must not be too concerned with the overall presentation.
4. The 3 B’s Tub
In the middle of the Australian Outback, one mustn’t be too picky about their soaking tubs. This metal drum seems to be placed in the middle of nowhere and left alone to be heated by the beaming sun, body heat and a bottle of booze coursing through the veins.
5. Timber Tub
While most homemade hot tubs are crafted out of anything that will hold water with minimal effort (steel drums, barrels, garbage cans, etc), our hat goes off to the wood-worker who took the time to hollow out a tree to be used as a most natural hot tub.
6. The Ideal Hot Tub
When your electricity goes out and your fancy “manufactured” hot tub becomes useless, just place a steel drum over your fire pit, put a match to it and watch nature run its course. Unlike most homemade tubs, this one is even name brand – although it’s doubtful that this is anything close to ideal.
7. Fashion Over Function
The creator of this DIY hot tub is most likely a welder – how can you tell? Well, he spent more time on the metal aesthetics of the heating apparatus than he did fabricating a comfortable soaking tub. Kudos, the propane tank looks great – the tub itself, not so much.
8. Beer Bath
If you ever secure a sponsorship from a beer company, just stack all the free beer cases you can gather in a square, line the empty space in the middle with a tarp and voila – a bonified hot tub that will never ever get cold (as long as you keep emptying the cases that surround you).
9. Hard Times Tub
Reminiscent of something you’d see in The Dust Bowl, if the flowers won’t grow, repurpose the planter for a good ol‘ fashion soakin’ tub. It should only take a couple 100-degree days before it’s ready for ya but, after that, you can forget all about those hard times.
10. The Tarp Tub
Sure, find a big box, line it with a big blue tarp, run a hose and see what happens. Definitely lacking in creativity, these college kids must have used all their brain-power in the classroom but deserve an “A” in hot tubs.
