...how many times have I said that now?
It couldn't be done last week because the plumbers had trouble stabilizing our clawfoot tub's feet. Thus, we had a new primary mission: secure the feet by any means necessary!
These things have a dozen different ways they're supposed to attach depending on design, manufacturer, etc. but our's is a tongue and groove deal like this:
I put that hole in the tongue.
Since they slide in from the front, the weight of the tub tends to push them right back out. We tapped them in with a rubber mallet as far as they'd go, but the fit is just not tight enough. Plus the powder coating makes the surfaces rather slick.
People told us that we basically needed a wedge, although given the spatial orientation of the problem, I had a hard time imagining how this would work. Apparently, they used to use old-school flat, square nails in these things. But we eventually found out that is for a different configuration of feet, where there's a groove running perpendicular to the tongue (there it's acting like a stop, not really a wedge).
So I drilled a hole in the "tongue" of each foot, inserted a bolt, and installed heavy duty turnbuckles connecting two eye bolts between the feet to hold the feet in tension and prevent lateral slippage.
I'm not breaking new ground here, and this feels extremely sturdy (the tub is upright again). If the foot tongues don't break, I think we should be totally fine.
...and we should finally have a shower. TOMORROW.
1 comment:
Earlier this morning I called the man who restored my clawfoot tub (Kevin Galloway, Galloway Porcelein, Houston TX) to inquire how I could secure the feet. He suggested turnbuckles. Lo and behold I came upon your blog when searching for an image showing how to accomplish this. Great post! and thank you!!!!
Corbin
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