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By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 28 Mar 23 1:44 PM | 73 view(s)
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Bathtubs are sometimes made of steel. Ordinary ones, that is. Bigger ones, like the Kohler garden tub that was installed at the new house, are flimsier and made from what I assume is plastic... or maybe acrylic. Ordinary tubs also usually have side walls that extend to the floor, while drop-in tubs like ours have to sit within basins made of wood. The stock photo to the right should give you the idea... The tub is white. The rest has to be built by a carpenter, then surfaced with tile.

At the new house, ceramic tile needed to be laid around the installed tub. The morons who put in the tile found it difficult to lay tile up the frame in which the tub resides and around the tub's upper lips - where they'd have to cut tiles, then grout between them and the tub. In their infinite wisdom, they decided to instead jack up the tub's edges and stick their tiles beneath its raised lips. What could possibly go wrong?

Flimsy bathtubs require support at their bases, not at the lips of the walls. What they did was akin to elevating a doughboy swimming pool by its walls and thinking it would still be strong enough to support water and people. Nope. In fact, they broke the tub in SIX places.

My plumber - who wasn't even involved - phoned me last night to tell me that my builder wants him to come out today and disconnect the tub. He said he could easily repair the small crack. (He falsely reported it to me as being just one crack.) I wasn't buying it and called my builder to get the real story.

Get this: My builder told me that he saw one of these clowns STANDING in the tub he'd jacked up and suspended. Some of the breaks happened as my builder watched! He also told me that the plumber just wants to be done with the house and is therefore proposing a quick fix. The two of them don't get along.

The tile people are going to "make it right" and have already ordered a new tub. The one I bought cost me $1,100. A replacement now runs $1,480. Then there's the cost of tub reinstallation. And the tile people will have to re-do their work. I'd say they did about $2,500 in damage, maybe more. Then again, labor is expensive these days. It's probably a lot more.




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