the one about our FREE hot tub

Yah, we totally got a free hot tub. Brett's Aunt Debbie didn't want to take care of hers anymore and she told us that if we would come get it, we could have it. It is a super nice hot tub and we were totally excited. However, our free hot tub has come with quite a price!!!! This is the story of the free hot tub..................from HELL!

It was quite a process getting it here. It was a few weeks ago, mid-December. We had to move fast and get it to our house and fill it before all of the pumps and everything froze. Of course we had to drain it. Remember, mid-December. The already cold water practically froze the second we dumped each bucket. Once it was drained, we had to load it onto a trailer. (Not as easy as it sounds!!! Hot tubs are HEAVY!!!!) Then we had to drive the truck and trailer to our house and unload it. Did I mention that hot tubs are really heavy? We had a few helpers during the move, thank goodness, but the rest of it was all Brett and I. Mostly Brett. I have to hand it to him. He worked his butt off getting everything all hooked up. He researched everything about the hot tub and the electrical. He has a friend who is an electrician and he guided Brett through some of it, but Brett really did most of it himself. Before we started to fill it up, I climbed inside and cleaned all of the walls, filters, jets and seats. We hooked up the hose and it started to fill. Not without a couple of leaks though. They were fixed as they "sprung." It didn't take long to fill. Doesn't it look beautiful??
It took several attempts on the electrical, but FINALLY after more than a week until 11:00 every night, we got the wiring right. Of course it was full of ice cold water, so the pumps had started to freeze up. We had to use propane blower heaters to thaw everything out. It was still too cold though. Brett made this white trash tarp encapsulation thing and we finally got the pumps thawed out enough so we could start it up.
On the first try, it fired right up!!! WOOO HOOO!!! We knew it was easy sailing from there.

Or was it???

Everything is perfect with the hot tub. It runs. It kicks on at the appropriate time. Its not leaking anymore. It is clean. The chemicals are ready to go. But there is one major problem.........

ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! The dang thing won't get any warmer. It is also not getting any colder, which is good, I guess. But 52 degrees is not really my idea of a hot tub.
Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...................... Now we have to call a repair man.

And that is story of the "FREE" hot tub. Maybe I should say "FREE-ZING" hot tub. :(