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Installing a Soaking Tub With Jets

Dan Gerry from Tranquility Plumbing is in the master bath for the installation of a jetted soaking tub. First a sand mix is poured underneath the tub to stabilize it and give it a good, firm seat. The Royal Bath Livingston tub is entirely acrylic so it will combat mold or mildew and resist scratching. The tub weighs over 200 pounds and comes complete with cirulation tubing. This tub has rigid PVC tubing and is self draining. The lines can be easily cleaned monthly with a rinse of bleach and water. The tub's acrylic solid surface inhibits mold or algae growth in humid weather. It comes complete and ready to install for around $700.

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Installing a Soaking Tub With Jets

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" All right Tim and Dan our plumbers are getting ready to set the tub. And what's what's the mix you got it this -- just standing next week when this up. Just stabilizes cuts when you step and it doesn't -- in Baghdad and bribery and correct right. So it's essentially pretty dry mix though isn't it yes or you don't want to make the room running that a separate ways that right. And so we'll just spread that around a bit. Now your tubing is all complete right yes sir I'll have to do so in the all right. Now we've got wear this Kevin Samaria and here who's from the company that manufactures this tub and tell us about it what's it made out."

" This is our royal bath Livingston acrylic tub the surface of the the percent solid color froehlich unique what you see on the surface is our blue spray on vinyl protection which he -- people -- during the construction process. This right here sure correct. Now it's about a 100%. Vinyl colors in it through and through the colors and through and through yes this acrylic surface. The nature of acrylic helps it to resist mold and mildew. And it cleans up easily with any non abrasive cleaner can hold its shine indefinitely -- thirty years plus."

" Wow now are are you guys ready to muscle it in there yes OK. There's no beauty born out all week and we have much to secure."

" This tub has a good amount of weight to you're looking at a little over two weeks."

" You guys are really strong. Now one of the concerns with. Any kind of circulating tub like this. In some areas is that you have again -- Mold or mildew. Moving out how to do that that's correct."

" What we call -- also -- we use a schedule forty rigid PVC. Enables self draining of the tub. In order to keep the plumbing lines clean we recommend you fill the problem with water at least once a month and add a cup of bleach to it and run it through the system for about 23 minutes. That'll freedom of any mold and mildew that could possibly collect inside. The surface of the any household non abrasive cleaner works great. The natural acrylic services non porous and that resists mold and mildew for the weapons."

" Now does he gets fastened down to that deck in some fashion. It just sits on it yet. We've -- put up our stringers to keep the tub level. But the bottom there to hold -- inflation. Case -- are others to a Kevin what's the cost on something like this so -- went this route Hillary you were approximately 700 dollars trillion mark. All right thanks."

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