You sir, are epic. No "look at me, I'm good, I have shiny tools" Just this is the job, here's how I do it, let's get on with it. Want one too? Here are the plans, sort it out yourself. Awesome. PS: sound quality could be better.
This is a great video. I seen one done using a rotor to round one side of a a board and the other with a indent. I love these better then a regular hot tub. It's rustic looking and cheaper. Well done sir.
thank you for your comments. I have been to BC and if that's where you reside I am the one who's envious. One of the nicest places I have ever been with some of the friendliest folk. tom
i noticed that you had a table saw, why not just use it to round the edges of the slats that make up the walls? with the bottom slat cut out they would rotate and make it round.
Nice job!! You remind me so much of my grandfather, "GB his soul". So many younger people these days (Including Me), take some things for granted. I consider myself a lot more reliable and handy then many younger adults these days thanks to my Grandfather and his teachings over the years. You earned a +1 Sub from me and hopefully 1 from all my other subs. Thank you so much for sharing this with me and everyone else which will take your work in showing us all this, seriously. Thanks again. DEv
Thank you for your kind comments. A large percentage of my family were craftsmen and who took the time in the school holidays to let me visit their workshops, I was grateful at the time, and its only know many years later do I realise just how exceptional they were both as people and as craftsmen. Best wishes
hey Tom, thanks for the inspiration, I am collecting ideas for my own tub - You have been an incredible source of inspiration! I am going for the ice tub though....Greetings from Germany, sincerely
Dear sir. I very much like you water heater build and would love to see more build's. I have plans to make a smoker or a hot tub with a heater build to it. Again thanks for the video for the build basic's. and would love to see more. Ps. would very much like to see a fire pit grill and a smoker.
Wonderful video sir, very enjoyable and instructive. I have a small cabin in the woods and this is just the thing I need up there. I am subscribing to your channel. I look forward to going through your video archive as well as viewing new content. Cheers.
fair to good. Providing you keep a little bit of water in the bottom, it keeps pretty water tight. Having said that I wouldn't keep one indoors, for that you need a slightly different solution, and add a coating to the inside of the tub, but then you loose one of the great benefits of the cedar wood oils in the water which makes your skin very soft. A real treat
nice touch with the rubber ducky :) ....circumference is Pi*D... Pi*r2 is area... i would have put the inlet for the hot water a little lower in the water column of the tub to get a better mixing of cold and hot water. shaving that much off the bottom boards was a bit overkill.. i would have left them as thick as can be.
One of the more satisfying jobs you've done, I bet. Can I ask though, when you were cutting the grooves in the boards to slot into the round base, shouldn't they have also been cut with a slight roundness instead of flat so the base fitted the groove more snugly?
Along with the wood fired oven and smoker the three projects I have had the most fun / use of since I made them. I did cut very tight mortices into which the base fits into so the shape of the rear of the hole theoretically doesn't matter its the front of the hole that's forms the seal, but you make a good point and something I will think more about. Best wishestom
Thank you for sharing this. Very interesting, and not half as hard to make as I imagined it to be - or perhaps you just make it look easy! :-). I hope nobody uses pi r^2 to calculate the circumference -- that's the formula for area of a circle, not circumference. The actual formula you should use is 2 pi r, or since 2 r is the diameter, you can just multiply pi by the diameter without having to worry about the radius at all. I'm interested in how you made the metal straps though. Unlike the rest of the tub, your video just cut from saying you needed to make them a certain size to having them installed. Out of interest, where do you get your materials from? I don't think they're the sort of thing you'd find at your average B&Q/Homebase/Wickes.
From 6:03 to 6:35 you can see gaps in the side slats. How did you plugged them to avoid leaks? Great project and great video !! Thanks for sharing it...
Just about to start building one similar to yours. What thickness of stainless steel did you use for the bands and do you have a supplier in the UK? Seems to be getting the bands fabricated is my only issue now before starting. Thanks
I dont know the answer, I have never tried. The hottest we took it too was 38 degrees C but that was too hot for me. I suspect we could have gone hotter.
thanks for the comment I am delighted to say its all good. I have tweaked the heater slightly to include a circulating pump but apart from that Its still working well
Hi, I bought your booklet on this a couple of weeks ago. Looking forward to cracking on with it now! Just wondering where you bought your stainless steel bands from? I can't find them anywhere in the UK for a decent price. Thanks
thanks for buying the book. I have now had the tub for three years and I still use it as much as I can. I have added a central heating pump to aid the water circulation about two years ago, but that's about the only change. Good lucktom
It depends how good your joints are. I had a trickle in 4-5 places for about an hour and slowly it stopped. If you leave it with an inch or two of water in the bottom when you not using it, it keeps the joints tighter
Crackin job!! Its better to construct the shell first then measure the end after cutting the croze to fit using compasses. You are basicly making a coopered vessel.
Great video Tom, just bought the cedar and off to start building my own now. I was going to angle each side of the staves but having watched yours this will double the work and also introduce the risk of compound error (if my angles are slightly out on the band saw). I also thought about adding tongue and groove joints - do you think this is overkill given your own experience? Have you found any issues with leaks once the tub hasnt been in use for a while?
I do like the keep it simple approach. I did see a commercial manufacturer who machined a rounded edge on one side of the stave and a concave matching hollow on the other, so whatever angle you used it worked, but that depends upon you having the right spindle cutters which I didn't have. If you let the tub dry out then the joints will open up, but once its had water in it for a while they stay tight.
Can you tell me Tom, what is the glue you used on the base. All the specialty wood glue I have looked at do not recommend for use in an underwater situation!
The glue is really there to hold it together whilst I assemble it. Once its all in place and gets wet the wood swells and blocks any leaks, and the whole structure is held together by the steel bands. Good luck
Its a balancing act between the width of the wood and the number of steel bands holding it all together. If you reduce the strength in the wood then I would increase the number of bands too compensate.tom
At 5:25 he's talking about the circumference of the bottom and he used Pi x Radius Squared as a formula. That's for surface area. The actual formula is Pi x Diameter or 2 x Pi x Radius.
In its original form it was convection current that kept it flowing, but I gave in and put a pump in it, it doesn't get any hotter but it does mix the water up more. The heater can lift the temperature by about 2 degrees an hour so it depends on where you start and want to finish. We have an underground rainwater harvesting system so if we take the water from there its considerably warmer than from the cold tap, so we heat it up in about 6-8 hours which compares favourably to the electric heater versions I have seen
@@heritagecraft it works better if your cold water source is higher than your heat source. Put the hot tub up on a platform and you wouldn't need the pump.
@@amygrace331 I understand the logic, but the practicality is when full with water the tub weighs close to 2 tonnes which is an awful lot of weight, which would need a considerable structure to support
@@heritagecraft thats true, I'm in the process of building something similar using an old cast iron tub and thankfully have two convenient things going for me: I'm in rocky New England and have access on my farm to plenty of large flat stones for building a stone platform, and my back yard has a slight slope to it so the woodstove is going to be lower even though it's only a few feet from the tub... it's like it was destined to have a one built there! haha. Hope you are still enjoying your tub 4 years later. Was happy to discover your channel yesterday!
I wont pretend it was cheap. One of the side benefits is the cedar wood oil in the water which gives a lovely aroma and softens the skin. So it was worth it
the heater lifts the temp by approx. 2 degrees centigrade per hour, so if I am starting with cold water from our rain water storage system it takes about 8 hours, and its good, 10 hours and its gorgeous. If you then put the cover on overnight its still good the next morning.
The heater raises the temperature by about 2 degrees c per hour. We use a floating pool thermometer to check the temperature, so we keep putting wood on the fire until you get to the temperature we like. I would love to pretend its a fancy control system, or mystical art. but its really as simple as that
Nice touch with taking your togs off at the end there Tom - inspirational and very down to earth presentation. Thank you
Finally someone actually shows how to make a tub for real. Bravo. Excellent video.
thank you
You sir, are epic.
No "look at me, I'm good, I have shiny tools" Just this is the job, here's how I do it, let's get on with it. Want one too? Here are the plans, sort it out yourself. Awesome.
PS: sound quality could be better.
Maarten hoi nederlander
This is a great video. I seen one done using a rotor to round one side of a a board and the other with a indent. I love these better then a regular hot tub. It's rustic looking and cheaper. Well done sir.
Glad you liked it!
well, now I have zero reason not to build one! great video, easy to follow and understand. thank you
I love your videos - always good for lifting the spirits and learning useful stuff while having a laugh - Many thanks.
Fantastic video rob, straight to the point no nonsense easy to follow instructions. Definitely one for the list ! Cheers
Nothing smells better then waking up and smelling Red Ceder in Victoria bc in your home as a hot tub wow , Your tub looks awesome I`m envious .
thank you for your comments. I have been to BC and if that's where you reside I am the one who's envious. One of the nicest places I have ever been with some of the friendliest folk. tom
I'll bet that shop smells amazing
when your working with cedar wood the aroma is wonderful
i noticed that you had a table saw, why not just use it to round the edges of the slats that make up the walls? with the bottom slat cut out they would rotate and make it round.
EXACTLY my thought
Nice job!!
You remind me so much of my grandfather, "GB his soul".
So many younger people these days (Including Me),
take some things for granted.
I consider myself a lot more reliable and handy then many younger adults these days thanks to my Grandfather and his teachings over the years.
You earned a +1 Sub from me and hopefully 1 from all my other subs.
Thank you so much for sharing this with me and everyone else which will take your work in showing us all this, seriously.
Thanks again.
DEv
Thank you for your kind comments. A large percentage of my family were craftsmen and who took the time in the school holidays to let me visit their workshops, I was grateful at the time, and its only know many years later do I realise just how exceptional they were both as people and as craftsmen. Best wishes
This was a superb video. Good, clear instructions and some humour too!
I am delighted you enjoyed it
hey Tom, thanks for the inspiration, I am collecting ideas for my own tub - You have been an incredible source of inspiration! I am going for the ice tub though....Greetings from Germany, sincerely
thank you for your kind words. I wish you luck. Not sure I am ready for an ice tub.tom
Nice simplified plan and straight forward plus looks affordable too. Thank you
haha awesome the way you seemed so joyed when you finally got to get in, great video!
Dear sir. I very much like you water heater build and would love to see more build's. I have plans to make a smoker or a hot tub with a heater build to it. Again thanks for the video for the build basic's. and would love to see more. Ps. would very much like to see a fire pit grill and a smoker.
Wonderful video sir, very enjoyable and instructive. I have a small cabin in the woods and this is just the thing I need up there. I am subscribing to your channel. I look forward to going through your video archive as well as viewing new content. Cheers.
+RangerDave1959 your welcome and I look forward to hearing how you get on building a hot tub. Tom
I'm ready to get some wood and start building. Thanks for the great video!
Love this and love the explanations and the mathematics! Thanks for a great video!
You're very welcome!
Thank you Mr. Tom! Beautiful job!
Your video was highly inspiring. Thank you very much on your detail explanations.
love it well done. I'm gonna give it a go one day
Hey Colleague, very nice work! I will planned the same Project. Best regards from Luebeck Baltic Sea, Axel
Awesome, thank you!
Excellent work Tom, great video too. Thanks for sharing your hard work and success
great video. Circumference is not pi*(R squared). Its 2pi(R) where R=radius.
Right, pi*r^2 is area, but it seems that it worked out anyway for him
fair to good. Providing you keep a little bit of water in the bottom, it keeps pretty water tight. Having said that I wouldn't keep one indoors, for that you need a slightly different solution, and add a coating to the inside of the tub, but then you loose one of the great benefits of the cedar wood oils in the water which makes your skin very soft. A real treat
Well done Tom. Great video. Hope you've had plenty of use from the tub. :)
thank you. I have to say of all the things I have made this is one of my favourites which I thoroughly enjoy using
Just brilliant sir. Loved the video and hope to replicate for cabin someday! Thank you.
nice touch with the rubber ducky :) ....circumference is Pi*D... Pi*r2 is area...
i would have put the inlet for the hot water a little lower in the water column of the tub to get a better mixing of cold and hot water.
shaving that much off the bottom boards was a bit overkill.. i would have left them as thick as can be.
+HolzMichel The rubber ducky! Ahh, and did you notice the shorts hanging off the edge at 18:32? I would like to make one 1/6th the size of this.
Great video and thanks for explaining how to calculate circumference
This is a brilliant video. Throughly enjoyed it! I'm Defo going to build one of these tubs. I have the perfect stove for this too.
excellent news. thanks for the kind comment
Can you make an indoor wooden version for a big downstairs bathroom? With a shower attachment would be great please
Congrats! Beautiful work all around!
Fantastic! Fascinating! Thank you for the great video 🙏🏽🏆
One of the more satisfying jobs you've done, I bet. Can I ask though, when you were cutting the grooves in the boards to slot into the round base, shouldn't they have also been cut with a slight roundness instead of flat so the base fitted the groove more snugly?
Along with the wood fired oven and smoker the three projects I have had the most fun / use of since I made them. I did cut very tight mortices into which the base fits into so the shape of the rear of the hole theoretically doesn't matter its the front of the hole that's forms the seal, but you make a good point and something I will think more about. Best wishestom
Thank you for sharing this. Very interesting, and not half as hard to make as I imagined it to be - or perhaps you just make it look easy! :-).
I hope nobody uses pi r^2 to calculate the circumference -- that's the formula for area of a circle, not circumference. The actual formula you should use is 2 pi r, or since 2 r is the diameter, you can just multiply pi by the diameter without having to worry about the radius at all.
I'm interested in how you made the metal straps though. Unlike the rest of the tub, your video just cut from saying you needed to make them a certain size to having them installed.
Out of interest, where do you get your materials from? I don't think they're the sort of thing you'd find at your average B&Q/Homebase/Wickes.
Great video - nice explanations and some excellent work buddy - Good build and thanks for posting ya video.
Thank you!!! Giving my hubby another DIY project lol
I hope you enjoy the result of his labours
From 6:03 to 6:35 you can see gaps in the side slats.
How did you plugged them to avoid leaks?
Great project and great video !! Thanks for sharing it...
once you get some water in the tub the wood swells and plugs any little gaps. Glad you enjoyed the video
Just about to start building one similar to yours. What thickness of stainless steel did you use for the bands and do you have a supplier in the UK? Seems to be getting the bands fabricated is my only issue now before starting. Thanks
I used 40 x 3mm stainless steel strip and just made the ends.If you dont do welding you could probably bolt ends on. Good luck
What temperature does the water get to? Sorry if asked already. Thanks!! Great build!
I dont know the answer, I have never tried. The hottest we took it too was 38 degrees C but that was too hot for me. I suspect we could have gone hotter.
The Duck made my day. Well done.
Lovely job. Good job you stuck with your online calculator to work out circumference though.
British nerd with a tractor. Best videos. Excellent details and just enough instruction. How much did the cedar set you back?
All is clear and simple outside of the bands.
Terrific video - is she still holding up? Well done , great job
thanks for the comment I am delighted to say its all good. I have tweaked the heater slightly to include a circulating pump but apart from that Its still working well
Great to hear mate .. keep up the good work
Great video! How did you source or build the stainless bands to keep it together? Thanks!
I brought from a local steel stockholder 40 x 3mm strip stainless steel, welded some ends on and pulled it round the tub.
Thanks for the information. Great video!
Best vid to date. Top Job ad keep up the great work
your very kind. thank you
Hi, I bought your booklet on this a couple of weeks ago. Looking forward to cracking on with it now! Just wondering where you bought your stainless steel bands from? I can't find them anywhere in the UK for a decent price. Thanks
I brought some stainless steel from a steel stockholder and made them. good luck tom
@ 15:01 that maul is awesome!!!! Did you make that? Phenomenal tutorial! I can see why these wood tubs are so pricey! Great work!!! I subscribed
Michael cane vibes! Good on you sir.
So how do you keep it clean? A normal hot tub you buy has filters and chlorine. How long does the water stay fresh here?
the water is good for a couple of days, and then it needs to be replaced
FANTASTIC WORK MATE!!!
wow...that is something. Thanks for the video.
Great vid, however, circumference is 2 π r not π r squared :)
I mean your still a awesome guy just wish you know more about making a video...just as much i wish i knew more about wood working
Just received your booklet. Looking forward to building it. Now it's a few years On, you still happy with it?
thanks for buying the book. I have now had the tub for three years and I still use it as much as I can. I have added a central heating pump to aid the water circulation about two years ago, but that's about the only change. Good lucktom
when you first filled the tub, how badly did it leak? and how long did it take to stop leaking?
It depends how good your joints are. I had a trickle in 4-5 places for about an hour and slowly it stopped. If you leave it with an inch or two of water in the bottom when you not using it, it keeps the joints tighter
Crackin job!! Its better to construct the shell first then measure the end after cutting the croze to fit using compasses. You are basicly making a coopered vessel.
Yes, is a big wooden bucket, but I like to think this like a frame with many sides as well
On the bucket list. Great vid besides the small math mistakes. School was a long time ago ;)
Tremendously good work!
Very nice! Can you estimate cost of material?
Great video!
I would just like to ask where you purchased the hoops please?
Thanks
thanks for the comment. I purchased strip stainless steel and made the hoops. It pulls round quite easily
Heritage Craft, Thanks for the reply, I'll look online now, have a good weekend
Great video Tom, just bought the cedar and off to start building my own now. I was going to angle each side of the staves but having watched yours this will double the work and also introduce the risk of compound error (if my angles are slightly out on the band saw). I also thought about adding tongue and groove joints - do you think this is overkill given your own experience? Have you found any issues with leaks once the tub hasnt been in use for a while?
I do like the keep it simple approach. I did see a commercial manufacturer who machined a rounded edge on one side of the stave and a concave matching hollow on the other, so whatever angle you used it worked, but that depends upon you having the right spindle cutters which I didn't have. If you let the tub dry out then the joints will open up, but once its had water in it for a while they stay tight.
A very enjoyable video.
Great job. Did you have to make any adjustments or fill in any holes after your first test run?
not to the tub, the upgrade was to fit a water pump to push the water through the heater
If I close my eyes I would think I was listening to Michael Cane.
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off. :D
Can you tell me Tom, what is the glue you used on the base. All the specialty wood glue I have looked at do not recommend for use in an underwater situation!
The glue is really there to hold it together whilst I assemble it. Once its all in place and gets wet the wood swells and blocks any leaks, and the whole structure is held together by the steel bands. Good luck
Thanks heaps for your quick response. Makes sense :)
Hi, nice work on the tub, Quick question instead of using 36mm across can you use 25 mm. Cheers
Its a balancing act between the width of the wood and the number of steel bands holding it all together. If you reduce the strength in the wood then I would increase the number of bands too compensate.tom
love it well done
thank you
taking the swimmers off at the end. nice touch!
look fantastic would love to build one
excuse me for being crass but how much did you spend on the tub itself? Just wondering the cost of the lumber etc
+rustykelly2004 The whole tub came in at under £1000
+Heritage Craft thanks for letting me know, definitely value for money then!
having spent several summer evenings in it I would say its priceless
I couldn't find cedar cheap enough
I am in love!!! Thank you so much.
Nice work!
Marvelous. Thank you.
What a great video! One question how did you fasten the stainless steel band to each other? Did you weld a fastener to it?
Glad you enjoyed it. I welded a piece of angle iron to each end of the stainless steel strap, and used threaded rod to pull it tight
At 5:25 he's talking about the circumference of the bottom and he used Pi x Radius Squared as a formula. That's for surface area. The actual formula is Pi x Diameter or 2 x Pi x Radius.
Dos the water flow, just because of the heat from the oven? Do you know the time it took to heat the tub? Really like the video 😀Anders - Norway.
In its original form it was convection current that kept it flowing, but I gave in and put a pump in it, it doesn't get any hotter but it does mix the water up more. The heater can lift the temperature by about 2 degrees an hour so it depends on where you start and want to finish. We have an underground rainwater harvesting system so if we take the water from there its considerably warmer than from the cold tap, so we heat it up in about 6-8 hours which compares favourably to the electric heater versions I have seen
@@heritagecraft it works better if your cold water source is higher than your heat source. Put the hot tub up on a platform and you wouldn't need the pump.
@@amygrace331 I understand the logic, but the practicality is when full with water the tub weighs close to 2 tonnes which is an awful lot of weight, which would need a considerable structure to support
@@heritagecraft thats true, I'm in the process of building something similar using an old cast iron tub and thankfully have two convenient things going for me: I'm in rocky New England and have access on my farm to plenty of large flat stones for building a stone platform, and my back yard has a slight slope to it so the woodstove is going to be lower even though it's only a few feet from the tub... it's like it was destined to have a one built there! haha. Hope you are still enjoying your tub 4 years later. Was happy to discover your channel yesterday!
How good does it keep tight?
Tengo la duda de por qué no usa pegamento al poner las tablas que forman el círculo?
how long did this project take you??
Bless ya! Amazing work xx
thank you your very kind
This is fantastic.
Wudnt we ideally need to divide that 5.5 degrees between both faces ?
if you follow the maths through it works
what a great video!
thank you
Got a little comfy there in the end didn't ya!
certainly did.
A man’s dream
...come true
↑ This guy ↑
is thoroughly impressed.
It cost you just under 1000, but also a lot of time, how much you would sell it for, or one like it?
+Ahmad Abu-Gdairi there are a lot of variables, width, depth and where in the world you are? talk to me at info@heritagecraft.co.uk
nice video mister
Nice job, but I think I would have used tong and grove on the floor though.
Blimey, how much did all that grade A ceder cost? I bet it was many quids and probably prohibitive for your average Joe.
I wont pretend it was cheap. One of the side benefits is the cedar wood oil in the water which gives a lovely aroma and softens the skin. So it was worth it
how long does the water take to heat?
the heater lifts the temp by approx. 2 degrees centigrade per hour, so if I am starting with cold water from our rain water storage system it takes about 8 hours, and its good, 10 hours and its gorgeous. If you then put the cover on overnight its still good the next morning.
Wonderful!
how many meters wood did you use
was stereo sound banned in 2016?
You are my hero.
Seems like a super nice guy
how do you control the water temprature ?
The heater raises the temperature by about 2 degrees c per hour. We use a floating pool thermometer to check the temperature, so we keep putting wood on the fire until you get to the temperature we like. I would love to pretend its a fancy control system, or mystical art. but its really as simple as that