You Can Make the Best Hot Tub Ever: Relax! Warm Your Bones! Get to Know the Sky [Paperback]

Becky Bee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2001

After years of smoky outdoor baths and burnt elbows and knees, Becky Bee, author of The Cob Builder's Handbook, discovered cob and made the bath of her dreams. So many friends wanted to know how to do it that she decided to make this book so even friends she hasn't met can have the pleasure of making and owning the best hot tub ever!

Unless you have had an outdoor bath, there is no way your imagination can see how absolutely divine it is. It's more like a temple than a bath. It is the reclaiming of an old ritual, balm to your soul, and a restorative for your body in the midst of the madness of modern life.

This book guides you through the steps of making a cob firebox under a metal tub. This booklet is written in simple language with lots of easy-to-follow pictures and drawings. And, to top it all off, you won't believe how affordable it is.

This little cob tub project is the most delightful way to start learning about natural building, giving you a hands-on introduction to subjects like drainage, site choice, design, foundations, and cob construction-with a hot bath as the reward.

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About the Author

Becky Bee has built natural structures in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Central America, and Samoa. Her company Groundworks, has been at the forefront of the cob revival: building, teaching workshops, and hosting natural building symposiums.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Groundworks (July 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965908216
• ISBN-13: 978-0965908214
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #818,805 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mud around an old bathtub?, July 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: You Can Make the Best Hot Tub Ever: Relax! Warm Your Bones! Get to Know the Sky (Paperback)

I was VERY disappointed with this book. I should have heeded the other 'one star' review I'd read, but thought that perhaps it was an exaggeration: but it was not! I had hoped to receive a book about building a quality hot tub, perhaps from wood or some other quality material, but this book really is about taking an old bathtub, sticking it on top of some rocks, and then routing heat from a fire underneath it. I was shocked and VERY disappointed. If you want to make use of an old bathtub, perhaps this is the book for you. If you want something of quality, keep looking...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gift for the Spirit, the body and wallet!, November 25, 2006

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Elizabeth Hamel (Frederick MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Can Make the Best Hot Tub Ever: Relax! Warm Your Bones! Get to Know the Sky (Paperback)

Ok I don't know who wrote the scathing review above but don't be discouraged by it. Becky Bee is a revolutionary builder and visionary and this book is a true gift to the world. My friends (only 3 of us) had our tub up and running the same day. But I could have done it myself in a few days. Over the next few weekends I put the finishing touches and it looks great! I endeavored to keep the whole project under $200 which we did and could have done for under $100. I have found soaking in a hot tub, that I built to be extremely rewarding. Its hard work but I'm not an especially fit person, so if I can do it anyone can, just remind yourself to go slow and enjoy the process - its not a race. All of my friends that looked at this book thought it was a great book and became interested in building a tub at their house. Buy this book (by the way I've never met the author) but I have her other book and having built my own cob (a earth/straw/sand mix) tub using only this book I think I can speak with some authority. I would say that I added paper pulp to my mix with great success.

31 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Definitely not the best hot tub book, February 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: You Can Make the Best Hot Tub Ever: Relax! Warm Your Bones! Get to Know the Sky (Paperback)

The author's idea of a hot tub is an old bath tub out in the back yard, propped over a wood fire for heat. No thermostatically controlled heaters and pumps, no sculpted reclining seats, no insulation.