Get A Good Quality Bathroom Corner Tub



Bathroom corner tubs are a luxurious and pleasurable fixture to have in your house. After a hard day's work, you deserve a nice long soak in a bathroom corner tub, allowing all the stresses of your day to disappear. From a hygiene point of view, tubs also win out, as they allow the skin to really absorb the water and cleaning product. A good quality tub should have a slip-resistant bottom, integral skirt, built-in tile-flange, central drain location center, one-year travel/parts/labor warranty, self-level base system, and decent-sized dimensions.

If you wish to install a bathroom corner tub, then follow this advice: place the bath panel on the floor upright. Mark the height from the floor to the very top of the panel on the left-hand wall, and then do the same on the right-hand wall. If the distances are the same, then you can proceed to the installation process. If the distances are different, use the highest measurement and proceed to draw a line with the use of a spirit level. Go ahead and install the bathroom corner tub at this level. Old houses will tend to differ in measurements because their floors are running up or down. When you place your bath panel, it may slip down a couple of millimeters at one end. To solve this problem, pack this end up and add some floor trim. Another option is to measure one side of the panel and fit the bathroom corner tub to this measurement. Then the panel can be cut accordingly.

Correct fitting and support should ensure that the corner tub doesn't feel unstable. There may be some squeaking while the bath is settling in, but this is nothing to worry about at all. Building a frame for the panel is optional, although it is advisable to put the panel into position, draw around the curve shape on the floor, take the panel away, subtract its thickness from the pencil line, and lay down some small blocks strategically across the line you intend to pin it. Ensure that the blocks you have cut are filed in order to follow the natural curve shape of the bath, on the front end, facing the pencil line. If you fail to do this and they are left in a square position, pinning the panel will be difficult, and the areas where the pins go will be obviously visible. The panel may also be pulled out of shape (if it is acrylic), which could cause problems in the future. If you are intending to use a certain kind of floor trim, you should make sure that you pin it so low that upon adding the trim, the pins remain well concealed. Use a spirit level adjacent to the side of the panel to draw around the curve on the floor when trying to place the panel in position. This methodology will stop the panel from flaring inwards or outwards before the marking out process begins. Whatever the shapes of your bathroom corner tub, the same procedures and principles remain the same.