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   brownbagg | Jul 04, 2004 08:24pm | #1

   I got mine $212 in a box complete

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   WorkshopJon | Jul 04, 2004 08:42pm | #2

   Usually these tubs go for $700 don't they?

   Trev,

   No, you can get a Jacuzzi Cetera for ~$450-$500. on sale at a big box.  No-name brand for even less.

   Jon

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   USAnigel | Jul 04, 2004 10:56pm | #3

   What you need to know is: what make is it, where do the pipes run, what cost is the pump/motor unit.

   If you just want a big tub, then closeup the holes and carry on. By the way American standard found out that the big tubs get used, on average, 7 times in their life time.

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   Trev | Jul 05, 2004 12:13am | #4

   "By the way American standard found out that the big tubs get used, on average, 7 times in their life time."

   They haven't met my girlfreind. She'll use it 7 times in a week.

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   DavidThomas | Jul 05, 2004 01:45am | #5

   With or without you? <G>

   David Thomas   Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska

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   USAnigel | Jul 05, 2004 02:10am | #6

   Seems the biggest problem is available hot water, so make sure you have enought to fill the tub above the jets. I do know of one job I did where the tub had been used twice in twenty years due to lack of hot water (there was no room for a larger unit) We ended up installing a smaller tub and the lady of the house is very happy now.

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   WorkshopJon | Jul 06, 2004 04:06am | #7

   "By the way American standard found out that the big tubs get used, on average, 7 times in their life time."

   My wife uses our 90 gallon once every other week on average, and our 50 gallon twice a week.  Who the heck were they surveying?

   Jon

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   USAnigel | Jul 06, 2004 05:45am | #9

   I know of a few houses where they just sit there. I wish we had a bigger tub rather than the standard "5' shower pan" that is in most houses. But I have to finish the kitchen first, then the deck, then the garden, then the ..........

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   donpapenburg | Jul 06, 2004 05:20am | #8

   Go to a pool supply shop  .

   a small pool pump will match up in a  fix up tub.

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   florida | Jul 06, 2004 01:48pm | #10

   Seems to me that the easiest way to find out of it's a "deal" is to ask the lumberyard to get you a price on the pump and pipes needed as well as any other missing parts. My guess is that it's no deal at all.