Funny Picture - Video Thread III

[Katydid1984]

 

[Katydid1984]

 

[Katydid1984]

 

[baboon]

We drank out of it and during the summer my mom would bring the soap outside so we could wash off outside. Pretty sure she did that because my brother and I usually were covered in dirt/mud. lol.

We had a set of tubs in the basement that was were we had more baths as kids then in the bathroom tub!

 

[Katydid1984]

This is how I felt when I asked to not wear anything that shows my cleavage to my sister in-laws wedding... I'm still deciding.....

 

[Katydid1984]

We had a set of tubs in the basement that was were we had more baths as kids then in the bathroom tub!

That's actually pretty smart!

 

[baboon]

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Flashbacks to duck & cover of some of our early childhoods!

 

[benenglish]

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No s**t! I used to work for a company headquartered in Tulsa.

I'm having serious cognitive dissonance, here.

 

[baboon]

That's actually pretty smart!

Today’s tubs like those of my youth are all cheaply made plastic. The ones we had must have cast out of something. The legs they sat upon where heavy steal.

 

[benenglish]

Today’s tubs like those of my youth are all cheaply made plastic. The ones we had must have cast out of something. The legs they sat upon where heavy steal.

Cast iron, enameled tubs were the standard before I was born. Now there are companies that restore them and there are trendy folk who buy them. The prices tend to be astronomical. New ones of unknown quality start at ~$1000 and go way up from there. Getting an old one re-enameled can be relatively cheap, say $350-$500, but in those cases the contractor is just stripping the inside, roughing up the surface, and re-painting with an enamel paint. If you really want to get an antique, porcelain-lined cast iron tub properly restored you're talking much more money to have it removed, transported to a shop, refinished, and the whole thing baked in a kiln. That can run into the thousands.

I've seen old tubs with broken porcelain, rusted through on the bottom, for which the sellers were asking $300 or more. Because, of course, they're "antiques"...even if they can never be properly restored and their only real use is as a garden planter. Big, heavy, high-quality antique cast iron tubs in excellent condition are very, very expensive.

Looking back on it, in today's world probably the single most valuable thing that was in my maternal grandmother's house was her tub.

Wow. The world really changes, doesn't it?

 

[Katydid1984]

Today’s tubs like those of my youth are all cheaply made plastic. The ones we had must have cast out of something. The legs they sat upon where heavy steal.

Were they like the claw tubs?

 

[Katydid1984]

Cast iron, enameled tubs were the standard before I was born. Now there are companies that restore them and there are trendy folk who buy them. The prices tend to be astronomical. New ones of unknown quality start at ~$1000 and go way up from there. Getting an old one re-enameled can be relatively cheap, say $350-$500, but in those cases the contractor is just stripping the inside, roughing up the surface, and re-painting with an enamel paint. If you really want to get an antique, porcelain-lined cast iron tub properly restored you're talking much more money to have it removed, transported to a shop, refinished, and the whole thing baked in a kiln. That can run into the thousands.

I've seen old tubs with broken porcelain, rusted through on the bottom, for which the sellers were asking $300 or more. Because, of course, they're "antiques"...even if they can never be properly restored and their only real use is as a garden planter. Big, heavy, high-quality antique cast iron tubs in excellent condition are very, very expensive.

Looking back on it, in today's world probably the single most valuable thing that was in my maternal grandmother's house was her tub.

Wow. The world really changes, doesn't it?

That is crazy that people would spend that much for a bath tub that doesn't function. New tubs aren't very cheap either but at least they work. We decided to just do a big shower with Cedar walls. That way we just needed the shower floor.

 

[TheDan]

This is how I felt when I asked to not wear anything that shows my cleavage to my sister in-laws wedding... I'm still deciding.....View attachment 271064

Run the options by us. We'll let you know which one is acceptable.

 

[TheDan]

If you really want to get an antique, porcelain-lined cast iron tub properly restored you're talking much more money to have it removed, transported to a shop, refinished, and the whole thing baked in a kiln. That can run into the thousands.

Cerakote it

 

[Harry_Gorilla]

 

[Harry_Gorilla]

 

[Harry_Gorilla]

 

[Harry_Gorilla]

 

[Harry_Gorilla]

 

[Katydid1984]

Run the options by us. We'll let you know which one is acceptable.

I bet ya'll would. Lol.