Need advise on bathtub

Feb 24, 2018 20 Replies

Hello all,



My 70-year-old San Jose home has a relatively new bathroom. The bathtub has a problem: The person installing it has put it in a way that the side against the wall accumulates water.



There are tiles on the wall. How do I straighten this bathtub without breaking the tiles?



Here is a photo:

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Thanks!



Deguza


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Lower the side farthest rom the wall?

Would there be some sort of material you could apply to the tub and slope it away from the wall? Trowel it on? There are shower wall panels that look like tile. Would there be some way to make a strip out of one and put the bottom edge of it at the tub sidewall? I can't picture it looking good though.

Not so. At bottom of screen is a "No Thanks, Show Anyway" button.

That's how I saw the pic.

It would seem the tiles are not the problem, the problem is the tub was not put in level. You're screwed. Maybe you can get one of those tub refinishing companies to put an insert in over it. But I can't think of any reasonable solution to solve what a level would have done at install time.

Consider grouting or caulking in a length of 1/2" PVC pipe in the corner edge.

Or for a "quick & dirty", hang a shower rod just below the window sill, with a shower curtain trimmed to hang just over the tub edge.

Oh, so there is. Very small print and I missed it, most likely as they intended. But then, my browser (Linux/SeaMonkey) gets hung up "transferring data" from many odd sites, including skype.com, bn130files.storage.live.com and numerous others ... maybe because I refused all the cookies. So, no thanks!

Make it simple, Deguza. Use imgur.com

I think you hit the nail on the head.

What I can't understand is the knucklehead who did this crappy install did not check for level!!

Add tub molding or edging?

It does not. It puts up an advertisement, which you can close.

Some might. That could be why they put that junk up there.

better that way than having the water run out both ends onto the floor.

Just wipe it down when you are finished. The lip on the back of the tub behind the tile will not let water past.

Never understood why you'd want a window in a shower/tub enclosure.

Well, for some bathrooms, that's the only place to put a window. A window is much appreciated for the natural light it lets in. But the best type window, in my opinion, is one of those transom styles. It's up high on the wall for privacy but does brighten the room.

Here are two pictures I snagged off the internet. The first picture is quite similar to the one I have in a bathroom addition but it's just a smidge larger than mine.

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The second picture is of one that's more narrow and high up the wall.

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Some open for ventilation and some do not; mine does not.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Here is the new URL on Imgur:

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When you look at it, the accumulation starts sort of the in the middle and continues to the left corner.

Real good ideas!

On Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 4:03:24 PM UTC-8, Retired

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Or for even easier access, picpaste. You don't even have to allow scripts to see the picture. No advertising crap, either.

For houses built before ventilation fans were common, it was a good way to ventilate the room.

My bathroom has a window, but someone added a three-season porch that now covers it. When we remodeled the bathroom a couple of years ago, we kept the window. There's a pane of glass nearly flush with the shower walls, some glass shelves, then an openable sash on the outside. We've got colored art glass on the glass shelves. It's gorgeous when the sun comes through there in the late afternoon.

Cindy Hamilton

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