We got a new tub!

You can see how much higher the new shower stall is!

So, after spending $234.47 on a bathroom shower rod, curtains, and tub fixtures.... and $500 to resurface the tub... we realized we could no longer salvage our bathroom tub/shower. It got us through a year and then we saw the peeling start... and the fixtures actually break.

While at one point the Hot water actually came out as hot after we did some improvements, but shortly after our hard work, the fixtures we installed broke due to the horrible valves they were attached to.

Hot water was cold.... cold water was hot. When showering you'd go from glacier to boiling because you couldn't move from one water temp to the other easily... or really at all.

Bye bye crappy shower unit.

After looking into options and making a few phone calls we found out that paying $5500 for a new fiberglass tub was not an option. With only a single shower for three people, putting in fiberglass was NOT recommended. We needed something more durable to keep us with the heavy use.

So we paid $150 to have the water shut off in our building and turned back off....

We paid $170.50 for useless permits with our city... (they literally walked in, said, oh that looks nice, and left)...

Our new tub! we did a tub and three walls
that went up to the ceiling!

and we spent $7,740.00 for a new ceramic tub and shower including the following:

• We raised the shower head high so hubs wouldn't have to bend over and duck to wash his hair. The height in his own words is "miraculous." Even his dad loves it.
• We picked a wider and deeper tub for actual relaxing baths... and we didn't have to "move" any of the drains to get a larger tub in there thankfully!
• Took the shower all the way to the ceiling so we didn't have to worry about water hitting drywall.
• Had them re-pipe the tub area so hot was hot and cold was cold -- so an actual permanent fix!
• They fixed and replaced the valves that wouldn't move to allow us to adjust anything... so now we can control hot and cold water with a single finger
• They installed more storage shelves in the shower so we could get rid of the ugly shower caddies.
• And they properly installed a rounded shower rod (apparently hubs didn't tell me ours kept falling down...) 

And its amazing.

It's the best money we ever spent.

I know I say that after every home improvement project, but that's because we aren't spending money all at once. When you live with a problem for a while and learn to work around it and find out what you WANT it to do when it's done, you APPRECIATE it even more when the repairs take palce.

We use this room every day.... and by paying for nice materials, it will last us the duration of our time here, plus the next people who live here after us... which is why we bit the bullet and did this project first, even though it wasn't on our original project list.... and yes, we used Home Depot again.

Since our building has a lot of water issues, we wanted to know if something was done wrong, that it would be made right again... and it was competitive pricing.

Now, every morning, I love my bathroom.

Final look!