Great idea Vilma,
We put a dog tub in our new house in a corner of the basement. It's
only hooked up to a drain as I ran a hose from the faucet on the sink next
to the tub. I enclosed the tub by rigging up a rectangular curtain rod I
made from PVC and suspended from the floor joists above. Two cheap plastic
shower curtains surround the whole tub which is on a platform. I got the
right height for the platform the same way that you did. And the tub? It
was one that a friend had removed from their bathroom when they remodeled
twenty years earlier. He retrieved it from the barn where it had been all
that time.
This elevated tub is the kindest thing that I've ever done for my back
other than buying an air mattress to sleep on.
Claudia Brydon in NW PA
Barney OA NAJ (Aussie)
Boomer (Bernese Mountain Dog)
Mo (Gordon Setter Granddog)
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> We just built our house (what a pain!) and had a "dog room" put in w/
> crates, grooming table, and elevated tub just for the dogs. It was much
> cheaper to buy a "seconds" regualr human bathtub at Home Depot and just
> have that put up on a secure platform and eclosed. The builder put in a
few
> steps for them and presto! Bigger and sturdier and about half the price of
a
> "dog tub." The builder asked me how high I wanted it, so I stood there and
> held my hands out straight in front of me and said "my dogs are all about
26
> inches tall, so 26 inches down from here!"
>
> Works great. Besides, mine probably think they are human anyway....or
perhaps
> they think we are canine! :-)
>
> Vilma Briggs (Kistner)
> Mt. Gilead, OH
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> and Ted
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