How Do You Create An Inexpensive Shower Enclosure For An Old Fashioned Bathtub?
Typically, an old-fashioned claw footed tub is converted to a tub-shower combination with an expensive store bought contraption. However, you can accomplish the same thing quite simply, with some wood dowels and twine. This is especially useful for students who live in old houses and don’t have money for the expensive version. • Note that you will be making a rectangular shower curtain rod suitable for hanging shower curtains around the bathtub. • Determine the approximate dimensions of the tub. If you don’t have a tape measure, use a piece of string. • Buy some wood dowel of approximately 1 1/4″ diameter at any home or hardware store. You’ll need one long dowel for each of the long sides of the tub, and one short dowel each for the front and back. Probably you’ll end up purchasing three dowels and cutting one of them into two short pieces. • While you’re there, purchase the inexpensive hand-held shower that fits over the tub spout, and a ball of string or twine. • The store will usual
• Note that you will be making a rectangular shower curtain rod suitable for hanging shower curtains around the bathtub. • Determine the approximate dimensions of the tub. If you don’t have a tape measure, use a piece of string. • Buy some wood dowel of approximately 1 1/4″ diameter at any home or hardware store. You’ll need one long dowel for each of the long sides of the tub, and one short dowel each for the front and back. Probably you’ll end up purchasing three dowels and cutting one of them into two short pieces. • While you’re there, purchase the inexpensive hand-held shower that fits over the tub spout, and a ball of string or twine. • The store will usually be happy to make the one or two cuts you might need to get the dowels to a suitable length. • Back home, lay the dowel on the floor in a rectangle, overlapping the corners a few inches. • Lash each of the corners together with twine. If you don’t know how to do this, find anyone who’s ever been a girl scout or boy scout to h
