Labor Day weekend was spent getting ready to install a new bathtub in the master bathroom. "Getting ready to install" could mean preparing, planning, designing, stalling, or dreading—it all depends how you look at it.
The selected unit is significantly larger than the original, and required quite a bit of work to figure out how to make it fit right and be functional for us. Our bathroom is pretty big, but the tub will really take up a lot of space. It took most of an afternoon to create a design that might just work. The result of all this effort is a realization that the project is quite large, and will probably result in having no tub in the bathroom for several months.
When combined with the idea that we are hoping to move within the next couple of years, the extra effort to have a better tub lost its appeal. I can replace the current tub with a same-size model (but still a great tub: jetted and all) for half the cost, one-quarter of the effort, and one-tenth of the disruption to the hygenic cleansing schedule of master bathroom bathtub users.
While these conclusions are fairly straightforward and somewhat mundane, I assure you that the reaching of these conclusions was anything but straightforward and mundane, and involved a lot of discussion amongst the affected parties.
Anyway, I've decided that the duct tape covering the cracks in the tub (that have already been patched several times) will hold for another couple of months. Perhaps this project is best saved for the dead of winter, when everyone is grumpy anyway and soaking in a hot bath seems even more appealing.
For now, I'll concentrate my efforts outside. I have some siding to replace, an external vent to install, some brick walkways to construct, and a window or two I really need to replace. The weather's nice; I'd best get to work.
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