On the unintentionally hilarious Times Radio radio - 2x airhead presenters - this morning - summed up Insane, Bust Britain.
Some couple, I think, the wife mainly, texted in, were wailing their 'pension nestegg' - BTL landlording - was kaputt.
Britain since the Millennium, or the early 1980s - property speculation, greed, get rich quick - on the backs of their children and grandchildren.
The now pauperised clowns were complaining the electricity bill on their holiday let, their 'pension', had gone from £250 to £750 a month.
Ah, poor things. Of course it had a hottub.
UK thought it was living the SoCal or Dubai life these past 10, 20, or 40 years.
Hottub? Do these clowns know how much it takes to heat a feed supply, as low as 5 deg C in winter, in some windswept, damp, cold part of this rock, to what the spoilt brat idiots who rent the place want the tub to be, 40 degrees C or higher, and kept at that temp, outside, in temps as low as freezing, or sub, plus windchill probably on this windy island, for possibly, probably, the whole evening - 8 till the early hours, while Mr and Mrs Think They're Filthy Rich, and their friends, drink to oblivion/stupor, in the tub?
A hot tub typically holds 1,200-1,500 litres, say 10 times a typical domestic hot water cylinder. Even in summer, in UK, the feed temp of water is no more than low double figs. C, say 10 deg. C to be generous as a year-round average. To go to mid 40s deg. C takes a typical domestic gas boiler - still cheaper than using electric, immersion heater etc - rated at around 20 kW power equivalent, about 20 minutes, or about 7 KWh. Electric heating can be easily double that. Let's say it's just double.
So, times that by 2, and then by 10, AND, add the regular refiring, of the boiler/switching on of the immersion, to keep the water at temp, for possibly up to 6 hours.
Depends on the ambient of course, and the hottub's insulation, but I'd say, from bath experience, hot water goes cold, or at least unpleasant, after 30 mins, and that's indoors obviously. So, let's be super generous, and say, the holiday let guests only use it for 2 hours, and it's quite balmy outside, and so the water only needs to be reheated/refilled 2 times.
So, for heating with electricity, 140 x 3, equals 420 kWh - for one day(/night)/session
Commercial electricity is now I believe around 50-60p/kWh, having tripled in price. Let's be generous/best case again, and say 50p.
So, the cost is, for just one day, or one session in the tub, over £200.
I'm amazed the clowns', sorry, 'businesspeople's electricty bill has only gone up to £750/month. I bet they've put a timer on the water heater, or a cut off, only allowing one hottub heating, and max, high 30s deg. C
Even ~£50 to heat a hottub, just once, would put a dent in their 'business plan', or 'pension nestegg/income'.
They either put a lock on the hottub, and see 'posh' guests desert, as this is now a 'necessity of life' in SoCal/Dubai insane Britain, or they cater to on a budget chavs, and drop that rent from probably £1,000-1,500/week now, to £500 or less - which of course torpedos their whole 'let's live like kings in our golden years' plan, OR, they sell it, realising their 'goldmine', their holiday let, is now a huge cash drain, with ongoing maintenance, fixed costs etc, and realise the market has collapsed/gone, as everyone else is trying to do the same - get out.
You have to laugh. Side-splitting funny. Eejits who thought Britain was vastly wealthy(it was printed money) - it is for the 0.01% - and that Climate Change meant outdoor living 24/7/365 - ~9 deg. C last night, in August, blowing a gale today, ~19 deg. C - typical UK conditions.
These airhead clowns have just met reality - UK has no energy. The pits closed, sabotaged deliberately, the oil and gas mostly gone, and we live on a cold island in the north Atlantic, where our weather comes from, 300+ days of the year.
You either live like British peasants lived until very recently in historic terms - minimal energy usage, tallow candles, bit of coal, wood foraged, some peat maybe, hand pumped water or communal taps and privies - khazies - hand wash your clothes, wash yourself down in cold water, live basically on gruel - soups/stews/pottage - or, you become truly rich - at least £10m clear - and live the SoCal/Dubai life.
Hottubs! Ha! Planet of the Apes - Charlton Heston rounds the promontory on the beach, and sees La la-land UK and a washed up hottub. 'The bastards went and did it! The stupid bastards actually went and did it!'.
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