Making a tiled bathtub AKA a roman tub, Episode 3/3 

It would have been nice to see the tub filled. I'm seriously considering this as my next project, but I would likely slope one side of the tub for actual tub use.

Y’all have no idea how helpful these videos were, it really did change the way I approach my project. I had this tiled bathtub idea that nobody could stop me from. and there’s not many other people out there doing it for some reason. It looks beautiful. I wish I could show you how ours turns out in the end.

I see in the video you have a grate drain. What do you use for the blocking the drain for the tub feature?

It's absolutely stunning (great style, beautiful materials), but there are a couple of things I don't understand --- how did you install the river rock on the floor and is it uncomfortable to sit on if you're using this as a tub?

woow! this is the coolest looking shower tub ive ever seen! this makes me want to learn how to do this myself and make something similar :D

what is with the ridiculous amount of plumbing. To much is just a bad as not enough.

I'm going to line it with swimming pool liner as I have an apartment, beneath me!

What were the considerations regarding the plug hole blocker (to allow the bath to be filled for a bath? and were any considerations made regarding the pressure applied to the trap when unplugging the water after a bath? ps. great job - just interested in more of the technical details

Looks 👍 wonder how much hot water it takes to fill a bath that size

it looks awesome you guys rock!!!

Oh my God that's so many shower heads hahaha. It's awesome though. You did a great job.

Wow, marvelous! Certainly a design to keep in mind for myself in the future.

Mine is getting started tomorrow.

I have a couple of questions because I have been considering having Roman tub built, instead of our current, however, is a shower curtain needed to contain the water spray? Also, if you are taking an actual bath how do the river rocks feel to the bottom? (I know that is a crazy questions, and I normally wouldn't ask except we literally just bought this house and the bathtub has anti-slip texture and it really hurts my skin.)😊

How did you address water volume with all those fixtures ?

Not to be snarky, but wouldn't you need an extra large water heater for this? like 6 water heaters? looks absolutely gorgeous!

wow , looks fantastic , great job guys

Can we see a wide shot of the tub in the finished bathroom? I would love to see the river rock filled overflow drain.

This looks amazing, nice work!

only problem with using grout in the bottom of the tub is over a period of time with the pressure of the water coming out of the faucet to fill the tub will eventually wash away at the grout. think about what water does to rocks over a long time when it keeps running over it

how do you stop up the tub to fill?

Great work. Can you share some details or links on the drain kit. How do you plug the drain for a bath?

I'm not a fan of the tile, nor the river rock floor which someone thinks will never get slippery, but I've had that before, and it's extremely dangerous. I don't like the stabby water faucet handles, neither.

Trade secret. Its now time for a instant water heater. This thing will hold over 100 gallons easily.

Built in drain plug I hope but I doubt it the tile leveller is a wast it you have to cut the plastic tabs off leaving spots water can form and grout is thin if you use a trowel with a 1/8 or 1/4 notch and a level shower tiles can be placed with out the extra steps I get the same looking results free hand

Beautiful work guys.

I love it. what I don't know is how do you stop the drain? say I want a bath to unwind from a stressful how do you do that?

The Mountain Garden did you ever respond on how to stop the tub

Looks great!

cool project I think I will try this in my house

would not have done it this way. bumpy river rock to sit/lie in for tubbing? doesn't seem comfortable. also, it's sooooo big, would take all day to fill. waste of water much? also, there's a lamp on the wall right outside the tub. nope. also, there's a faucet snug up under a shelf. nope. as cool as this seems, the video lacks all the important details. how do you angle to floor properly to drain into the drain? what do use to grout the tile? where is the ceiling fan for moisture ventilation? Not what I was hoping to see at all.

This is really beautiful you guys

Huge mistake on the drain, should have used one from a company called trim to the trade, it has a pop up plug and you just simply use the one that you have now in the pony wall as a overflow gets rid of the rocks out of the wall , probably won't use that type of water proofing. I think the hot mop is the best way to go

Can you please add photos or an updated video of how the bath waste is able to be blocked as I'm endeavouring on an almost identical project in about a month's time.

I’m building a tall Japanese soaking tub ATM. What type of plug did you use? I’m also questioning having just a chrome S trap without a puddle flange. I have an access panel downstairs to service the drain base. Any suggestions? 🙏🇦🇺

So cool! May I ask, what are the L shaped, white things called? I’m assuming you’d put bath gel etc on it.

I need this in my life lol.

holy crap that is beautiful.... 🤔

why did you not show the process?

How do you plug your drain if you want to have a bath?

should have increased the size of pipe, so that the shower heads weren't piddling. but man the tun looks awesome, esp. the floor

How do you plug that tub? Looks like a shower drain

What was the estimated cost?

What would something like this cost on the lower end with the basics and I'm having a hard time trying to find contractors that can do this any suggestions

Very nice! :))

do you need 7 shower heads

How long did it take to make this?

So, a year-plus on, are you happy with your Roman tub? Would you have done it differently, in retrospect? I'm trying to decide if I want to do one now...

Considering something similar for a condo reno

amazing

Hi there. I was wondering what type of grout you used here. Is there a surface finish that you used? Thanks a bunch and lovely work!

What is your drain set up?

I want this soooo bad

Its leaking like a sieve

how do you fill the tub?

I want one of these, but twice as big. Sans shower heads ❌🚿❌

you should've showed us how it looked flooding

yeah nice shower but kind of overkill on all those shower heads i mean really do you need so many one is or should be enough shouldn't it ? i mean to each his own just my two cents

Nice

water pressure looks horrible.

I could get used to that bathroom

i just wanna know the name of the song

why didn't u show the tub filled....

Nice job, but please remove "bathtub" from the title, as there was no actual bath. Seems like you may have intended to make a bathtub initially, but decided against it when you ran into leakage issues. What you actually made was a shower, that maybe looks like a bath, but without bath functionality.

I want to see the bath tub work too. final part of video was not very good, u spent more time showing a the useless water fixtures than the how the bath tub was a success. personally, to much money on all those water fixtures. I love the rainfall and maybe 1 shower head on the wall but so much everything else. love the tlle.

I bet the plumbing is a nightmare..

I love the effort but it seems the owner/builder got carried away. That's too many shower fixtures! Plus this is the problem of diy contractor. This kind of installation is a disaster in the end in so many ways: Firstly, no waterproofing was done in the wall before tiling. Especially that it's gonna be a tub, water would seep in behind the tiles via grout! Expect leaks and molds in the wall and the adjacent rooms. Secondly water pressure. As you can see, the water out of rainshowers and body showers anemic. Imagine more when all fixtures are opened at the same time- it'll be an expensive drip drip frustrating shower experience.

This was suppose to be a tub, but final run shows a drain; no water gets collected. The whole idea of constructing a partition was wasted

would anyone care to explain how they plan on stopping the water to fill the tub? because they explain their crazy overflow solution and skip right past the fact that they arent using a trip lever, toe touch, or twist and turn drain.... I'm trying to solve this problem at this very minute and this video is literally useless to me showing a roman tub that literally can't be filled with water... also this is destined to fail very quickly as hydroban does not have the perm rating to use for submerged applications.. you absolutely MUST hotmop or use an uncut folded PVC liner and clamp ring drain for this to last more than a few years without destroying your house. They also skip right past explaining their little leak around the drain... my guess is they used a kerdi floor drain and plan to throw a rubber mat over the drain to fill it up... You CAN in fact find 90 degree turn low profile clamp ring drains that fit inside 2x4 studded walls to execute a proper overflow on the wall of the tub if you look for one, and there are clamp ring style roman tub drains available to order for around $70 with built in 2 inch twist and turn stoppers. OS&B makes the clamp ring overflow drains that fit inside 2x4 walls and plumblingsupply.com makes a 2" FIPS cast iron clamp ring shower drain with 2" twist and turn roman tub stopper, I'm just not fond of this solution myself. I would like to find a way to execute a trip lever solution using a normal clamp ring ABS shower drain base that is threaded into a trip lever bathtub kit and find an overflow arm for it with threaded bolt holes for a clamp ring? So far this seems impossible though, I can't come up with a way to clamp down the standard overflow drain+arm in a standard tub kit onto a pan liner. :(

What an ugly water wasting set=up.

That's a rather masculine choice of color tones for a couple of girls.

cool project I think I will try this in my house