My local lumber yard has a whirpool tub for $50. The tub was used for display. It’s just what I have been looking for but it doesn’t come with any mechanicals. The jets are on it but no tubing or motor.
Where would I find these? How hard would it be to get it up and running? Usually these tubs go for $700 don’t they?
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I got mine $212 in a box complete
Usually these tubs go for $700 don't they?
Trev,
No, you can get a Jacuzzi Cetera for ~$450-$500. on sale at a big box. No-name brand for even less.
Jon
What you need to know is: what make is it, where do the pipes run, what cost is the pump/motor unit.
If you just want a big tub, then closeup the holes and carry on. By the way American standard found out that the big tubs get used, on average, 7 times in their life time.
"By the way American standard found out that the big tubs get used, on average, 7 times in their life time."
They haven't met my girlfreind. She'll use it 7 times in a week.
With or without you? <G>
David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska
Seems the biggest problem is available hot water, so make sure you have enought to fill the tub above the jets. I do know of one job I did where the tub had been used twice in twenty years due to lack of hot water (there was no room for a larger unit) We ended up installing a smaller tub and the lady of the house is very happy now.
"By the way American standard found out that the big tubs get used, on average, 7 times in their life time."
My wife uses our 90 gallon once every other week on average, and our 50 gallon twice a week. Who the heck were they surveying?
Jon
I know of a few houses where they just sit there. I wish we had a bigger tub rather than the standard "5' shower pan" that is in most houses. But I have to finish the kitchen first, then the deck, then the garden, then the ..........
Go to a pool supply shop .
a small pool pump will match up in a fix up tub.
Seems to me that the easiest way to find out of it's a "deal" is to ask the lumberyard to get you a price on the pump and pipes needed as well as any other missing parts. My guess is that it's no deal at all.