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HELP! Salvaging a Kohler Villager tub with an odd installation

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hace 9 años
última modificación:hace 9 años
We are remodeling a bathroom in a house we just purchased. The current tub is a Kohler Villager cast-iron, apron-front tub. It's in great condition besides needing a good cleaning. The previous owners installed it as a makeshift drop-in tub: they tiled around the entire tub, INCLUDING the apron-front. Question is: What would you do with the tub? Is it salvageable? And if so, wouldn't the apron-front be completely ruined from being tiled over? Would it be weird if we reused the tub and tiled over the apron front (with a ledge that was much thinner and more flush to the top edge of the tub)? Any other ideas?

Our original plan was to replace with a new Kohler Archer apron-front tub and new tile surround (but not over the apron-front of course!) But if we're able to re-use the existing tub somehow, it'd be ideal. Also then do not have to deal with hauling a 300lb cast iron tub down steep attic stairs and disposing of it.

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  • loves2read
    hace 9 años
    You won't know the condition of the apron until you remove the brick--
    if the tub IS cast iron it is pretty indestructible IMO and even if you scratch the paint, so what--you said you were planning on using different tile and creating different apron...

    Are you taking out ALL the tile surround?
    If so, there could be problems with the other sides/tops with paint being scratched...
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    Patricia Colwell Consulting
    hace 9 años
    This does not look like a tub with an apron it looks like a drop in to me.
  • User
    Autor original
    hace 9 años
    Yep no matter what, we're taking the entire tile surround out. I just wonder, doesn't it look weird to have a tile surround where the tub is of "undermounted" below the tile, rather than on top of the tile, like a drop-in tub? Cuz this particular tub is an apron-front. If somehow, miraculously, the apron-front surface ended up looking decent after removing the tile, i'd much rather just put it in that way, rather than covering up with tile...
  • User
    Autor original
    hace 9 años
    Última modificación: hace 9 años
    It's a kohler Villager-- which is only manufactured as an apron-front. So here, the tub's top edge sits underneath the tile and the apron front has been covered over with tile too. the tile ledges on the front and right sides sit about 6" higher than the top of the tub, too.
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