claw foot tub

Originally Posted by Scrapette

I have an old iron claw foot tub that needs to be dismantled in the house and moved down a flight of stairs. I would like to break it into at least four pieces. I don't have the money for fancy, expensive tools like plasma cutters and am fairly ignorant of other tools except for the very basic ones. I would appreciate any helpful suggestions. The tub weighs, I'm guestimating, around five hundred pounds. Thanks in advance to any posters.

Bring along some old carpet, once the plumbing is disconnected have a friend help you turn the tub over onto the carpet it would keep fingers safe if you put an old pillow or cushion down for the rim of the tub to set onto. Now you can tow the tub, going down stairs is no problem secure the top with a rope to let it down easy.

If you have to lift the rim of the tub over door sills have a short piece of two x 4 handy and a pry par to do the lifting, have some more short bits of 2x4 to lay under the rim to elevate the tub going over the sill plate.

Tub at most weighs a couple hundred and it is worth a lot more in one piece the legs alone can bring in a good money. Check out fleabay for claw feet and your going to find out that there are many styles to choose from some are very common while others are not and these are the big top items.

There is so much demand for these old tubs that there are companies that cast new ones, the quality is not there. People would rather have an old original refinished.



Someday I'm going to take a pair of these old tubs and cut them then re weld the two ends together so that each end of the tub has a slanted end with the taps coming in from the middle oh what fun that tub would be.

Taps and fixtures another hot item worth more than scrap brass. Free standing sinks whoa, big money honey.