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"Bathtub Advice"
Maroonclown 5829 desperate attention whore postings
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03-28-09, 04:48 PM (EST)
 
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"Bathtub Advice" |
DH and I will be ripping out our bathroom on Easter long weekend.We have tile ready to go, we have accessories ready to go, we have paint colours ready to go. What we don't have is a difinitive decision on the tub. Our house was built in the '30's. The original cast iron clawfoot sits beautifully in there. I have spent many a weekend, actually every weekend, soaking for about an hour in that huge tub. We're talking floating around in it. Candles, wine, bubbles, a good book. But it's way too big and we want to get rid and replace it with a slipper tub that is a little smaller. Here's the quandry. Cast iron or acrylic? We've priced out both and with the stand-alone fixtures we are talking a major price difference. But my real question is - what holds the heat better? Cast iron or acrylic? I know I've read somewhere that acrylic holds the heat better but people are so attached to their old-fashioned cast irons that I'm beginning to think we may need to stay with that even though it could break the budget. I just want to be a happy girl, in my slipper tub, with my wine, my bubbles, my candles and my book. Help me, wise OTers. 
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maroonclowns mom 1102 desperate attention whore postings
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03-28-09, 04:52 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: Bathtub Advice" |
Decisions, decisions, sorry pup, can`t help. agman
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Estee 57126 desperate attention whore postings
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03-28-09, 04:59 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: Bathtub Advice" |
You lost me when you implied it was possible for a bathtub to be too big.
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Maroonclown 5829 desperate attention whore postings
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03-28-09, 05:40 PM (EST)
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6. "RE: Bathtub Advice" |
Thanks so very much for that ever so helpful comment. 
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vince3 17341 desperate attention whore postings
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03-28-09, 05:29 PM (EST)
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4. "RE: Bathtub Advice" |
I think it might depend on what you're putting into the rest of the bathroom. If the tub is the only fixture that you're changing, you might want to go cast iron so that it'll remain matched with the rest of the house. Otherwise, go with what matches best with the rest of the stuff you've got planned on the remodel......
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Buggy 5089 desperate attention whore postings
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03-29-09, 01:10 AM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 03-29-09 AT 01:15 AM (EST)LAST EDITED ON 03-29-09 AT 01:13 AM (EST) Okay, so dumb question, but why in the world are you replacing that cast iron clawfoot that you have???
Are you kidding me? A little bathtub story.
Once I was working for a place that offered Company Housing, they were disposing of some of the houses, mine included and moving me to another house. The woman who handled these things called me and asked if I need a bathtub in the new house. I told her that we did need to bathe. She explained that the tub in the house was very old and they wanted to remove it and put in a shower stall thing instead. I told her I'd look at the house first before deciding. The idea of no tub at all, didn't sit well with me, but I also like a shower, and really wasn't sure about choosing between them. So I go look at the old crappy house that they will be renting to me for $ 250 a month, ( That I will have to paint and repair before moving in) and the little bathroom has the only gem in the whole place. Seriously, besides the awesome yard, the gorgeous deep clawfoot tub from the 20's is the ONLY good thing about this place, and they wanted to rip it out and give me some cheap plastic shower thingy.
Arrgh!
I asked that they just add a shower head, I could put a curtain rod around it, and they did. I loved that tub! I discovered bath products, I learned to soak, I drank while bathing for the first time in that tub, I bought a little table to put next to it to hold my wine glass and book. It was the first bathtub that I ever fell asleep in. It was the bathtub I judged all other tubs against, and unless you are getting a deep spa tub with jets ( like the one I have now, ahhhhhhhh ahhh) why replace it?
Is there something wrong with it? I'm just saying, if you are going to replace a deep claw footed cast iron tub, get you some spa jets.
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Ahtumbreez 10456 desperate attention whore postings
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03-29-09, 07:36 AM (EST)
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I'm a woman that has paid to store her grandmother's cast iron clawfooted tub for 20 years waiting for it to have the perfect home again.  I have a cast iron pedestal tub now and love it, acrylic just doesn't have the same "feel". But...that being said I have been coveting this tub for a while and even blogged about it some time back: 
Of course you could always go with a heated tub:
http://www.luxuryhousingtrends.com/archive/2008/10/heated-bathtubs/
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frisky 11695 desperate attention whore postings
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03-29-09, 01:47 PM (EST)
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I, too, would live in that tub.I would prepare and eat my meals in that tub, and I would sleep in it and do my laundry in it. *sigh* Aside from all the obvious wonderfulness of this tub, I also like the fact that it is raised quite a bit from the floor, making it easier to clean. That is, if you ever got out of it. I wonder why they don't make more tubs like this? Raised up, so they're not such a b!tch to clean?  
Perpetual *headbutt* compliments of Rolly.
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PepeLePew13 26135 desperate attention whore postings
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03-29-09, 01:56 PM (EST)
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>I would prepare and eat my
>meals in that tub, and
>I would sleep in it
>and do my laundry in it. You didn't tell me that you married Kramer! There was a famous Seinfeld episode where Kramer decided he was going to live in his bathtub forever, and he prepared all of his meals and laundry in there. Once, he had people over for dinner (including two germphobes) and after they started eating, Kramer happened to mention that he washed the lettuce leaves in the shower while he was in there.
Stinky Musings <--- blog's been updated!
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Maroonclown 5829 desperate attention whore postings
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03-30-09, 08:35 AM (EST)
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By way of an explanation on getting rid of the tub.While soaking and floating around last night I did some serious thinking about your comments and about replacing the tub. We have a small water heater so in order to fill it I run the water for 5 minutes, then wait 20 minutes and finish filling it for another 3 minutes. It's very old and there are spots where the glaze is wearing down. This has led to permanent staining that is impossible to clean. The outside of the tub is painted a dark green as are the feet. I have looked into getting it reglazed but it's expensive, requires redoing every 5 years or so (as we've been told) and you cannot use any abrasives or chemical cleaners on it. In my book, that is a pain in the a$$. It's far too long which means that I have to rest my feet on the taps and it is uncomfortable. Without resting my feet I end up drowning. We want to redo the bathroom and are going with oil bronze fixtures. I want the standalone hardware for the tub and that is just not possible if we keep the old tub. So, the decision has been made to get a smaller cast iron, clawfoot. But not the slipper design because I can't rest my arms on the sides to hold my book. Such trauma in my little world.
And that tub ^up there^ is just too dreamy
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Ahtumbreez 10456 desperate attention whore postings
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03-30-09, 09:34 AM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 03-30-09 AT 10:01 AM (EST)I was just coming here to add that I'm one also that thinks a tub can be too big. I had a garden tub once, it was so long and so wide that you couldn't stay stationary and relax. I could actually float in it but that's not a good book reading position. You can't rest your arms in a slipper design? Good info to have in the future! Have fun with the remodel MC!
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samboohoo 17173 desperate attention whore postings
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03-30-09, 08:42 AM (EST)
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Sounds like fun. I hate our tubs. I grew up in a house with claw foots, and they were nice. And big. DH's old house had a nice tub, not a claw foot, but a nice one. We bought our current house in the middle of my pregnancy. The first time I took a bath, I knew immediately that something was wrong. I didn't really fit very well into the tub. I chalked it up to pregnancy weight. But then post pregnancy, I still didn't fit. We realized only then that our tubs in this house are not as wide as the one at the old house. They also don't keep the water as warm as the tub at the old house. I was very depressed about this until we added our hot tub. I still miss taking bubble bath, but I deal with it.
Interestingly enough, we have a restaurant here that uses an old claw foot tub for their salad bar: http://www.strawberrystreetcafe.com/menus.html
*smooches Agman*
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BlueIris 161 desperate attention whore postings
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03-30-09, 11:53 AM (EST)
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My dh has always wanted a urinal in our bathroom. Ick.
I never say a word about it, thankfully we don't have the space.
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