What size Clawfoot Tub is comfortable?
bickybee
14 years ago
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Comments (6)Thanks for all the replies! This is our first house, not our "forever" house. We are planning to finish the bath update so we can put our house on the market within the next 8-10 months. Then hopefully we'll be in our "forever" (or at least for a long time) house. :) The tub in the master is somekind of old, original cast iron tub. So I know it will be a pain in the butt for our GC to remove! I'm not much of a bath person except for occasionally, but my hubby likes to take them a little more than occasionally. Really this update is to make our home more attractive to potential buyers and hopefully secure us a fast sale. The master is one of the only things we haven't updated in our home, and we're not planning on spending a fortune. What I DON'T want to do is spend this amt of money period, and then wish I had done the tub. It's in really good condition, but it's so narrow and shallow. I wanted to potentially put in a deeper, wider one, but the walls are an issue. The non-plumbing side is my husband's closet, which is the same size as mine (not very big, but a "walk in," which is the plumbing side.) Moving a wall is an expense I'm not willing to undertake, so that's why I was wondering if we could hack into the wall just a bit where the tub is against my husband's closet. I havent talked about this with my GC yet. I'll do that this week. But y'all have seen that done?? Removing the tub and taking the time/money/effort to create a big walk-in shower is not what I wanted to do. We do have another tub in the hall bath, but not having a tub in the master might make someone not want our house. It's all about resale at this point! At the lowest remodel cost. :)...See Moreoval tub as comfortable as oblong? and tub deck width?
Comments (5)Sorry, I guess I should clarify. (This is why I linked the product page, because I knew I would not be able to explain this properly.) The oval tub has a "preexisting" sort-of-deck with a flange on three sides, otherwise I would not be so daft as to try to put a shower over it. I like my kitchen ceiling where it is! Here, this is what it looks like: However, and this is what I was asking about with the deck question, from the instructions it appears that there must be some kind of deck on the fourth side which does not have a tile flange if one does not use the optional (icky) apron, but it does not say how wide this deck must be. We both would rather not have to clamber over a wide margin to get into the tub - DH has to use this for showering every day. I'm mostly a lay-backer, not a sit-upper - my shoulders and upper back get very very painful so I have to get them into the scalding water. Unfortunately there isn't enough room for the 5'5" tub that would let me keep both shoulders and knees underwater and actually cover up most of the protruding bits on the front, leaving pretty much just my head and hands (to hold my book, of course) out of the water. ;-) The room is only 60" wide - it was carved out of a bedroom - and even if we had budget to redo all the plumbing there isn't room to turn the tub round sideways. I dislike the look of "stuff" cluttering up tub corners so I'm considering a down-low niche for my shampoo/soap/etc. and a high-up one for DH's shower things, and there will pretty much never be any kind of decorative bits on the corners because they'd just get soaked with the shower spray anyway. Well, okay, maybe a rubber ducky. (But no flamingos!) :-) Those four were pretty much the only tubs I've found that fit the parameters of size/depth, cost (crucial!), and appearance. I'm a short-but-wide person and DH is medium-height(5'9")-and-wide and we both manage OK in a standard 60x32 oblong tub - 34" or 36" would be a nicer but pretty much all I could find in this price point were funky molded-up things that looked like they belonged on the space station. Yuck-O. The deepest of the four tubs is actually the oblong Bancroft at 15" water depth but I'm not thrilled with how it looks, the other three are 14" water depth. The oval looks like it would have less shoulder room but that's not the case? The one oval tub I've seen available for sitting in was just about big enough for a kindergartener to do laps in, so it's pretty useless for comparison!...See MoreDo you love your freestanding bathtub? Design vs. Comfort
Comments (21)Since my previous photo has been deleted in my last post from 2014 I am posting another of our Victoria + Albert 68" freestanding pedestal tub. If I had it to do over I might have gotten the shorter one since as you can see it barely fits into the cove. At 5'5", as I recline in it, my feet don't touch the end unless I point my toes. My husband is 6' but he never uses it and frankly, I rarely use it myself. It's not a big deal but would have also left some space on either end to more easily clean behind it. The drain is plumbed to the basement with a freestanding English style faucet that is also mounted into the floor. I do love the look of it. Approximately, my tape measure is flimsy... 68"L x 31"W x 24"H overflow is at 15"-16" but it has a cover over it to negate the function. It comes with two options, the solid cover or the one with open slots for draining overflow both included with the tub. Click on photo to see entire picture....See MoreTub length for ultimate comfort?
Comments (4)Depends on how tall you are and anyone else taking a bath. We are short (5'4 and 5'5) so a 60" tub is fine for us and we were lucky to be able to try out the exact tub we were buying at one showroom (didn't order from them as their lead time to install it was too long). The style of the tub is important too - ours has armrests and a sloped back. We saw some very rectangular ones that would not have been very comfortable especially at our height. I would go to another store and try out a 60 long tub if the store you were at doesn't have one....See Morebickybee
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