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Method of installing bath-tub where there is lack of room.

It sometimes happens that it is impossible to install a bath-tub in the ordinary manner, owing to the fact that it will block the passage to other fixtures, or for other similar reasons. If the bath-tub is to be located on the first floor, the method shown in Fig. 16, may be often used to advantage. This consists of cutting through the floor, and suspending the tub on the cellar ceiling, so that the top of it will come flush with the under side of the flooring. The opening should be covered by means of a trap door. If the floor is covered, the top of the trap door should be covered with the same material, and the tub should be set if possible so that the trap door will swing back against the wall, as shown. This method allows the use of a bath-tub without taking up any of the floor space except when the fixture is in use.

Another good plan for setting a bath-tub when there is no space for it in the toilet room, is to set it in the kitchen, sheath up around it, and provide it with a substantial wooden cover. The cover when the tub is not in use, makes a table, useful for many purposes.

This was taken from the book "Questions and Answers on the Practice and Theory of Sanitary Plumbing", which was published in 1919.

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