We’re adjusting. Slowly. The kids, thankfully, have survived all the craziness of the past few months with barely the bat of an eye. Makes me wish I was still a kid. But, then, I’d have to go to school.
The guys are here again today making small repairs to the house – the things listed on the inspection report that the lovely seller refused to have fixed. Things are… coming along.
The washer is still trying to fly away and the tub upstairs still needs to be replaced… to the tune of $2000. OUCH.
Moving on, though.
As we’re living in an older home, there are things that we are doing now that we haven’t had to in the recent past. Such as, showering in a tub, rather than a dedicated shower. (Even before having children, I never had the time for a bath, so who needs ‘em? I’d much rather have a nice, big shower. But, I digress…)
Here at Casa Amarilla, we’re relegated to showering in a tub. Not a big deal. Millions of people do this, right? So how are these millions of people keeping water from dripping all over the floor? Please, please, answer this question!
Water as been spraying off of the person showering, onto the tile walls, dripping down the walls and onto the tub, then sliding along the grout and down onto the floor. This creates very LARGE puddles on the floor at both ends of the tub.
Securing the shower curtain along the edge of the tub and wall doesn’t work – the water still collects from everywhere in the tub and then travels along the edge where the tub and wall meet, drips over the edge and onto the floor. It is absolutely MADDENING. I step out of the shower and into large, cold, slippery puddles. We’ve been going through a bathmat per shower.
I have found splash guards, but guess what? These won’t work for us. The tile wall and tub don’t meet in a perfect 90 degree angle. If we tried to use one of these, it would adhere to the tub fairly levelly, but then there would be a huge gap between it and the tile wall, defeating the intent.
I have lived in homes with shower/tubs. As a child, in college, after college. As a matter of fact, except for the last two houses, that’s all I’ve lived with. I do not, for the life of me, however, remember this issue. A minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things, I guess, but still MADDENING. There HAS to be a solution!!!
4 responses so far ↓
1 Sarah // Sep 5, 2008 at 10:42 am
I wet the walls, smooth the curtain down the wall until it meets the edge of the tub and then smooth the crease.
Maybe when you spend your $2k, the tub will be more level and you won’t have such an issue with run off. Until then, use lots of towels.
From Susan: There’s the real rub – we’re talking about two different bathtubs.
2 barbara // Sep 5, 2008 at 5:24 pm
we are going to need a picture for better brainstorming, i think!
3 Stephanie // Sep 5, 2008 at 9:53 pm
IS your shower head really high. Ours leaked with me 6 foot hubby but not 5’3″ me . If there is less mess for shorter people that might be the issue, but I assume that the shorter people in your house are kids ie the messiest. Anyway we have a shower curtain that has suction cups two sets of two to suction the curtain to the wall they work fairly well you mau be able to get two shower per mat then. Hope this tidbit helps
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