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Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: ptann on December 04, 2006, 08:28:52 am

Title: Icy Deck
Post by: ptann on December 04, 2006, 08:28:52 am

As the mercury has gone down I have been looking forward to my first winter as a hot tub owner.  I had a few friends over and it really was great with the cold weather, the only problem is the deck around the hottub became a skating rink with spill over and the puddles from people getting in and out.  The ice sheets combined with hot wet feet (attached to pretty tipsy people) was a significant fall problem.  Any suggestions on preventing the deck from becoming a slip and slide?

Title: Re: Icy Deck
Post by: wmccall on December 04, 2006, 08:45:13 am

We put down a cheap carpet "runner" between the tub and the house.  If it gets wet and freezes,  you can just pick ip up, and shake it out.

Title: Re: Icy Deck
Post by: spa-ing on December 04, 2006, 05:07:04 pm

We wear beach shoes in the hot tub to get from the deck to the tub. We just leave them on and get wearing them. No more cold feet.

Title: Re: Icy Deck
Post by: Dr. Spa™ Ret. on December 04, 2006, 05:25:12 pm

Wearing beach shoes in the spa, and socks to bed................ *sigh* just what is this world coming to  :-/

Title: Re: Icy Deck
Post by: bosco0633 on December 04, 2006, 05:27:12 pm

we run for it, but it makes the feet sting.  I like the carpet idea, but after a big snow fall it would hard to shovel it all out.  I would just get a pair of flip flops or crocs with some traction.

Title: Re: Icy Deck
Post by: PotomacG on December 05, 2006, 08:30:36 am

I went out to check my tub this morning after using it last night and there was some slippery ice on my deck.  I am going to get a piece of indoor/outdoor carpet to put down.  I will remove it when it snows.

Title: Re: Icy Deck
Post by: kervis on December 05, 2006, 08:56:22 am

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We wear beach shoes in the hot tub to get from the deck to the tub. We just leave them on and get wearing them. No more cold feet.

Great plan!   :) I won't wear them IN the spa, but I will grab them and put them on in the spa before I get out.  I was amazed at how frozen they got (don't usually wear flip flops when it's below freezing!) and indeed, I could barely get my feet in them as I was trying to towel off.  

Santa was going to bring fuzzy slippers for everyone, but as Santa was shopping around, Santa noticed that the bottoms were questionable--possibly slippery on wet/icy surfaces.

I may have to return them now, and stick to the submersible flip flops--again, a great plan, :) and I really don't need a pile of giant, fuzzy slippers in the house.

Title: Re: Icy Deck
Post by: bosco0633 on December 05, 2006, 02:07:54 pm

if they are clean, once your about to get out.  dip them in the tub to warm them up  That is what we do.

Title: Re: Icy Deck
Post by: hot tub Frank on December 05, 2006, 04:57:32 pm

Get the skates out.
that give you good grip on ice


 ;) ;) ;) ;)

Title: Re: Icy Deck
Post by: jfish63 on December 05, 2006, 05:00:04 pm

I looked at some mats at Sams club. The kind that is about 3/4" thick with large draining holes in them. I have seen them behind more than a couple bars. I wonder how they would work?

Title: Re: Icy Deck
Post by: anne on December 05, 2006, 10:14:30 pm

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I looked at some mats at Sams club. The kind that is about 3/4" thick with large draining holes in them. I have seen them behind more than a couple bars. I wonder how they would work?

We had mats that would fit that description at a restaurant I worked at years ago, and we keep them now in the kennel end of the hospital. They're great for reducing slippage in that context. Two possible problems come to mind: 1)they were very heavy (but they were very large in square footage, too) and 2) they might freeze and crack.