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Antique-Look Bathroom Sink and Soaking Tub

Bob checks in on installation of the bathroom plumbing fixtures in this segment. The crew is installing a custom vanity countertop and undermount sinks from TOTO USA. The heavy white marble top is braced on the wall with a wood strip anchored to the studs and supported from the floor with an antique-style chrome legs. Bob points out the acrylic tub from TOTO�s Baldwin Suite. The tub measures 22-inches deep and 72-inches long, making it a true soaking tub. Borrowing from commercial styling, the custom tub surround is constructed of 16-gauge stainless steel that is adhered to a plywood substrate.

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Antique-Look Bathroom Sink and Soaking Tub

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" Another feature in this master bath is this kind of antique looking support for a marble slab with two labs that are coming in Johnson down our plumber is gonna start bringing it in here I just want to lay down. A bead of silicon. At the very back just before they get here because. Whenever you're seating marble on wood on a wall like this it's great idea to have a nice fat glob. Of the silicon there you go -- These are these nice. White marble. Tops that we're putting in many of the units here in in in dumbo."

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" And the lavatories themselves are also from Toto they're the white porcelain. -- chestnut undermount lavatories. These are like nineteen inches and that's a very nice -- nineteen by fifteen and it's an undermount which is what you always unspecified. When you're working with a nice stone slab like this because it's much cleaner look. This is the Baldwin model soaker tub from Toto and this is a -- acrylic construction. It's a 72 inch -- which means you're looking at a large tub 22 inches deep a real soaking tub. And I love how these go -- because they do they're drop in and you build a platform and a frame for them and here what we've done is we've. Soaker tub itself in that kind of a dry mix of cement and then we've got the surround built for it out of steel studs. And my friend my friend Alan -- is it out here getting ready to bring in the stainless steel trim you see we've got. Sheet stainless steel which I believe is sixteen gauge sixteen that's right. Sixteen gauged that is mounted on plywood and and these panels. Fit together and then are trimmed out with a molding guys yeah go ahead. And the beauty here is that since it's not a whirlpool tub doesn't require any kind of a motor there we can close it in. Just and we can add. The moldings to dress it up. This has to be trimmed to move it on other it is there you -- in the right place. So that effectively. It's a very very fine finish now did you guys cut this on site. No let's let's actually. Manufactured for us with some that was fabricated at a job shop here except that -- Very elegant thanks out."

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