Master of recycled construction and some luck!

I didn't mention in my last posting how much it cost me for my hot tub reno and motor fix.

Well let me tell you when I took on my reno job of my hot tub I did it totally without buying any new materials and I didn't know weather I would be able to get my motor fixed? as I didn't have the funds to do so. But as luck will have it, and I usually have luck on my side, albeit usually with struggles, as nothing come easy for me, but in the end with my luck I usually prevail.

So I took my chance and started the tear down and took my motor to the repair shop, where I was told would cost around $150 to a max of $200 but as it turned out they couldn't fix my motor and had to replace it with a new motor, and ended up costing me a whole lot more, with the price of $250 for the new motor plus labor and taxes totaling just under $500.00 in the end.

So as I tore down the old deck, I saved all the good wood I could reuse for my rebuild, and if I couldn't finish the job of my rebuild, my plan was to do as much as I can and get my hot tub up and running when the motor was fixed and finished the rest when I could afford to next year?

But As I started rebuilding the new frame/ retaining wall with my recycled good pieces of wood, mostly 2x6's to frame, my neighbour started working on his deck which he tore down last year and saved his old frame and decking boards and he decided not to use it. Instead he decided to buy new materials to rebiuld his deck.

So as luck will have it! he saw I was building and he asked me if i wanted to use his old lumber rather than taking it out to the dump....I said yes of course, He told me I could have all the 1x6 pressure treated deck boards and he will keep his 2x6's, I said that would be great and will work out perfect for my plans!!

I told you I was lucky.

So I re-used all my good 2x6's for my frame work and I used my neighbors 1x6 pressure treated deck boards for my retaining wall and top deck with no cost to me.

The total cost to do my whole hot tub reno was .....
Unexpectedly $479. for the motor fix and $10-$15 for deck screws! and a little hard labor! :)

Hot tub up and running...Finally!

As promised I documented my hot tub reno with pictures. ..Click on pictures for bigger view. :)

My cat watching a chipmonk eating on my hot tub, Which has nothing to do with my reno, but I thought i was cute!

The start of my hot tub reno, I tore up the top deck and retaining walls
ready to dig after most of the tear up done
Digging away!
Break for camera.
All dug out and tilting up hot tub to level the ground under it
Starting to frame retaining walls and deck frame.
More framing
inside shot of retaining wall frame.
Overhead shot of frame work.
Another angle of framing
Decking all done.
Another angle, but how do I get to the motor?
Ah! removable door tops.
Me wiring up my motor before dropping it down and connecting it to the tub after I got my motor back from repair shop, which only took 4 weeks and $500.00!! I was not happy with that! and at the same time filling the tub with water.


Motor all wired in and connected and running, listen to it purrrr!

turned on the heater and by the time I got home from work it was up to temp, of 101F and had a nice soak! Aaaaaaa.

:)