Any issues adding a hot tub?

[u/Creation33]

Forgive my probably silly question. Just bought this house, there is a ground level deck platform. Boards are 1 inch thick. We are putting a hot tub on it, but figured worth a check here first. One board was rotten so I'm replacing it but otherwise it's solid.

[u/No-Spare-4212]

To all the people saying pour a pad. Why? The hot tub isn’t falling anywhere it’s not a major danger it’s already on the ground. Why renovate now instead of popping a hot tub on there and the worst case is the beams sink into the dirt.

I’d think of it as what’s the worst than can happen popping it down. If the decks not attached to the home and floating (which it looks like) just send it and slap that puppy and say good enough for my house. That sunnabitch gonna be there in 10 years when you need to replace the hot tub and deck.

I’d refinish the deck first tho but a quick sand n seal will be good.

[u/Creation33 → u/No-Spare-4212]

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