Depth of a good soaking tub?

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BTW, we used a 32" shower cabinet in one bathroom (not the one with the big tub) and even my kids think it's pretty tight in there. Standard is 36".

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Yeah, that up-and-over thing for tubs is problematic. I have a friend in NYC who plans to redo her bathroom using one of those tubs with a step-in door. She says that will add a lot to the resale value of her apartment because all the pied-a-terre buyers are older and they want those tubs.

Those are soaking tubs, btw. Have you considered them?

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You live in an apartment building, right? And the hot water isn't a problem? Because for our tub, we had to have a 75-gallon hot water heater installed. The tub holds about 75 gallons, so with a standard 40-gallon heater, we wouldn't have had enough hot water for the tub plus anything else at all.

You wouldn't want to install a nice big tub and then have the frustration of never having enough hot water for it. I think you can get special in-wall heaters to "boost" the hot water supply....

It's a 75 gallon tub, but I don't think the hot water heater is an issue in an apt building.

BTW, we used a 32" shower cabinet in one bathroom (not the one with the big tub) and even my kids think it's pretty tight in there. Standard is 36".

Shower is in the corner so on an angle. Can't change the footprint but it's a two person shower. A little small for two people, but not terrible and fine for one.

Yeah, that up-and-over thing for tubs is problematic. I have a friend in NYC who plans to redo her bathroom using one of those tubs with a step-in door. She says that will add a lot to the resale value of her apartment because all the pied-a-terre buyers are older and they want those tubs.

Those are soaking tubs, btw. Have you considered them?

I appear to be out of time to consider anything. Demo started today. Tub getting ordered today, if it hasn't already been. Yikes! Up and over it is