Installing a Soaking Tub With Jets

Project: Storm-Ready Design, Episode 6, Part 3



Jesse Gonzalez from Mercedes Homes shows Bob how faux columns wrap supporting pillars to give this Florida home a Mediterranean flair. The Styrofoam pillar halves come hollowed to fit the four-by-four post and are filled with adhesive foam to seal it tight. Styrofoam rings finish the columns, which are sprayed with a textured acrylic that is painted to match the house. Blue Haven Pools sprays on and shapes a gunite pool in the back yard, where Tom McNealy explains how the form is first laid out and with two by fours for support and paper-backed mesh to hold back the soil and shape the pool walls. A dry sand and concrete mix is then pumped from a batch truck and mixed with water at the nozzle by an applicator who sprays six inches of gunite across the base and walls. The crew shapes and smoothes the walls, and forms the stairs by hand. Bob finishes in the master bath where an acrylic jetted soaking tub is installed on a bed of sand for a solid seat. This tub is self-draining with rigid PVC pipe that can be cleaned with a bleach and water mixture. It comes ready to install for around $700.
Part 1: Creating Decorative Styrofoam Columns
Part 2: Building a Gunite Cement Swimming Pool
Part 3: 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 self-draining tub weighs over 200 pounds and comes complete with circulation tubing. The lines can be easily cleaned monthly with a rinse of bleach and water. It comes complete and ready to install for around $700.

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