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freestanding tubs - are better brands worth the money?

3 years ago

Shopping for a simple freestanding tub and noticing large price discrepancies. Are more expensive brands - signature hardware, jacuzzi worth it compared to cheaper brands like vanity art? I’m not a huge bath person but putting one in for occasional use. We’re thinking a tub similar to the picture but without the deck mount hardware spot.

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kudzu9
3 years ago
A bathtub is not a particularly complex thing to manufacture, not does it require exotic materials. You shouldn't buy a no-name, inexpensive one, but you also shouldn't think that paying a lot of money somehow gets you a fantastically superior tub...whatever that is. Once the prices start escalating you may be paying more for design or cachet than for a signifcant difference in quality. And I'd stay away from the expense of a Jacuzzi model, especially since you describe yourself as "not a huge bath person." The nearly new house we moved into several years ago had a sunken bathtub and an expensive Jacuzzi. We hardly ever used it and ended up tearing the whole thing out, filling the hole in the floor and installing a simple American Standard freestanding tub.

Buy a reasonably priced tub from a namebrand like American Standard, Koher, etc., and don't worry. It's a bathtub, it's not like the difference between a Toyota and a Tesla, or a Big Mac vs. a Wagyu prime rib, or a track suit vs. a tuxedo.
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