Hi everybody. I've got an old (but working) inground hot tub from a friend. I would like to install it on an small (13x12) existing deck in a cubby-corner of my house. One side of this deck is approx 5ft from my property line (setback required by our city). The main electric aerial cable bundle that goes into my house runs along this setback and is attached to the roof of my house. If you drop a "vertical" from this cable onto the gound it woud be about 2ft and parallel from the edge of my deck (ouside of the deck). The edge of the tub would be 3ft from this edge of the deck. What does the code says in this situation? If indeed is a problem, would building a trellis over the whole deck and installing a criss-cross pattern wood screen running from this edge of the deck up to the trellis help. If I do this there will be no chance of this cable ever falling on top of the deck. Thanks Adrian

We recently bought a hot tub and just got our electric bill- wow! This tub has some flimsy siver bubble type insulation around behind the cedar sections around the bottom. I was wondering if I could stuff some regular old pink fiberglass insulation in there. We have it outside, so I don't want to put anything in there that'll get moldy or mess up the tub. It is sitting up on a deck, so it should have enough air flow around and underneath it. What if I put the fiberglass in some plastic garbage bags first? Do you think it'll get too hot under there to melt the plastic or anything like that? We plan on getting that rigid foam insulation, but I wanted to do more to try to cut these bills. Any ideas?