After quickly tiring of curtain blow-in I need to do something about my clawfoot tub. i intend to bring the outside curtain further out from the tub, and i would like to do away with the wall-side curtain. My first thought was to frame a small kicker that, once all is covered with cement-board and tiled, would drain into the tub. does anyone have experience with this? i’m sure it’s been done, so i’d love to hear how.
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I saw an application in an article several years ago that may provide, if not a solution, at least an interesting perspective. In the article, a small room, perhaps 6' x 6', was equipped with a shower pan and floor drain. Along one wall were two shower heads; a tub was positioned against the opposite wall. No shower curtains or doors were used.
One could bathe sitting in the tub, and shower standing either in, or outside of, the tub - depending on how the shower heads were aimed.
I saw this design as a real world solution, especially for hotels with lots of foreign visitors unaccustomed to shower curtains (and resulting in frequent flooding incidents), and homes with children that splash a lot while bathing.
In your application, it would seem ideal to treat the floor of the room in which the claw foot tub is situated as a shower pan: you could choose to shower without a curtain, or even have a shower head emerge from the wall opposite the tub, so you wouldn't have to be standing in the tub to shower.
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You can have sand (bean bag like)or chain sewn into the bottom hem of the curtain to weight it down, and eliminate the blow-in as you refer to it
Edited 6/18/2006 9:14 pm ET by PearceServices
thank you both for the ideas, unfortunately i have no intention of moving the tub, so i can't turn the whole bathroom into a shower, although i like the idea for a smaller room. my bathroom is about 100 square feet.
as for the heavier curtain, it is a good start, and i've seen curved shower curtain rods that will help the situation as well.
Tiling and its support might be somewhat harder than, say, a ledge of tempered glass caulked aginst the wall. You would still be able to see dustbunnies underneath and feel compelled to clean them. Oh, alright, I got carried away...
All the best...
To those who know - this may be obvious. To those who don't - I hope I've helped.