{"id":340,"date":"2008-12-02T22:43:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/?p=340"},"modified":"2008-12-02T22:44:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T05:44:41","slug":"the-cost-of-heating-a-hot-tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2008\/12\/02\/the-cost-of-heating-a-hot-tub\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Heating a Hot Tub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much do you think it costs to keep a hot tub heated at 102 degrees year-round, non-stop, with the built-in electric heating system that come with today&#8217;s models?  Formulate your answer and then scroll to the bottom of the picture for the answer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hottub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"462\" class=\"framed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a newly hot-tub-owning co-worker of mine and his wife, about $14 a month.  That is much, <em>much<\/em> cheaper than I would have expected, and apparently it&#8217;s a lot cheaper than it was with the less efficient models of yesteryear.  My guess was about $50 a month, and I assumed one was supposed to keep it cold until an hour or two before one wanted to use it. $14 a month for an ever-ready tub seems incredibly efficient.  I think it has something to do with how well the cover insulates the tub when it&#8217;s not in use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much do you think it costs to keep a hot tub heated at 102 degrees year-round, non-stop, with the built-in electric heating system that come with today&#8217;s models? Formulate your answer and then scroll to the bottom of the picture for the answer. According to a newly hot-tub-owning co-worker of mine and his wife, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}