Oval design bathtub – can it be moved slightly due to dirt behind it?

My bathroom planning program starts with freestanding bathtubs at 1.8m.

It can place the bathrooms in Upper Bavarian meadows.

we use the bathtub 15 times a year, the rest of the time our laundry will collect in it

Therefore, remove laundry from the tub if it is there and put it in the laundry basket etc.
3. Align empty tub.
4. Align hose so that it goes into the shower drain or another drain.
5. Run water into the tub via the shower head.
6. Person gets out of the tub, pull the plug --> water drains.
7. Rinse out the tub, water also drains.
8. Clean behind the tub if possible.
9. Return empty tub to original position.

the other is simply more ours.

So honestly: aside from the fact that I consider this technically a ridiculous idea. But how do you come to speak of aesthetics and wellness when you use a tub as a laundry storage (regardless of whether visitors see the tub), or want to work through points 3 - 9 during use? Sorry, but somehow you got all tangled up in this ridiculous idea without any sense of why and what reason someone would want to take a bath in a tub.

There are not only tiled-in bathtubs. There are also alternatives that are open at the front, and in almost any shape. I can understand using a tub as a laundry collector in a two-room rental with two children due to lack of space, but not in a private bathroom that is supposed to shine with “chic and design.” Looks great on the outside, but no good inside.
Design also means rather leaving something out or reducing desires so that you can even speak of design. The “I absolutely want this” rarely has anything to do with design. It’s just like a pantry that you push into a corner of the kitchen and thus take away the kitchen’s design and usability.
I also wouldn’t compare a 165 x 73 space-saving tub to a tub with completely different inclinations and interior shape. That just doesn’t work.

Man, plan a nicely functioning bathroom with a stylish tub, but not with such a foolhardy prank.

Man, plan a nicely functioning bathroom with a stylish tub, but not with such a foolish stunt.

That is also my recommendation. Alternatively: Build the bathroom exactly as described above, host public and ticketed bathtub move parties upon moving in where this bathtub relocation is demonstrated - and with the collected entrance fees you can then also finance the new bathroom renovation.

Hello everyone,

I could have sworn that I had replied to your many posts, criticism & also suggestions back then. First of all, you convinced me and I have since moved away from the mobile oval bathtub. The last period was turbulent and things didn’t progress, maybe that’s a good thing.
Anyway, many thanks to you, I will now respond to your posts again.

That is indeed not to be neglected. For bathtub model and size, I would try lying in several tubs in a bathroom showroom. No, that’s not stupid.^^ Neither my sister nor my mother did that back then (what do the PEOPLE say???), and both hate their bathtubs.
We are both not that small and took a tub of 180x80, and I love it above all. Otherwise, it is rather "shallow" and has a wide backrest. We had been eyeing one from Villeroy & Boch, which would have been several hundred euros more expensive. It would have allowed two people to bathe together, but none of us found it comfortable.
Of the freestanding ones (which would have been too expensive for us anyway) I didn’t find any I found comfortable. They all had such high walls, that’s too deep and too narrow for me.

Good point, we will do that! It is especially important to us that our chest is under water and the arms/armpits are not cramped.

For the shower, I would possibly consider whether the (if I understand correctly) fixed part currently going straight towards the door could also be foldable or something like that. We have it like that in the rental apartment at the moment (so two sides of the shower fold away). Otherwise, draw it to scale and see how much space is left for the shower entrance, but squeezing through 40 cm every time doesn’t sound so pleasant.

I don’t understand, do you have an example of what you mean?

Let’s collect the facts:
- You definitely want to have it
- It’s legal to try it
- Still, no functioning implementations are known
- Any “would-have, could-have” chain is meaningless

=> Just do it and report back here!

Gladly I will report, but I think it won’t be implemented that way after all :-D (new suggestion at the end of the post)

My tub is 1.65 m and either the knees or the shoulders always stick out of the water. I am 1.80 m.

My bathroom planning program starts freestanding tubs at 1.8 m.

I would, for example, replace the window on the left with a 90 cm door and glaze the rest on the right fixed.

If the pipes are still free to plan, which I don’t really believe in the existing structure, then the entire bathroom should be newly planned. I’m sure you’ll get help here with that as well.

Yes, we are now focusing more on a good lying position in the bathtub and the also important large window opening to the outside (suggestion at the end of the post).
The pipes are still free to be planned.

Here’s my first suggestion. A variant with a rotated shower is still coming.

Wow, many thanks to you (y), really changes the perspective.

Here’s also the 2nd variant with a level-access shower.



The tub in this program only goes up to 1.8 m.

The right window is fixed glazed.

The turning mechanism was omitted. Cleaning is easy.

The view out of the window unobstructed.

Wow, even more thanks to you (y)

Yes, we will have to neglect the view out the window. (suggestion at the end of the post)

I would definitely try such a tub. My wife is 162 cm and with the high walls of most freestanding tubs she can hardly get in and out. We ultimately chose a normal tub.

Good point, as I wrote above, we will do that! It is especially important to us that our chest is under water and the arms/armpits are not cramped.

With a corner bathtub it also works but not as nice.

The third wow, many thanks to you (y), but it is indeed at least ugly in the graphic.

Well, an installer probably wouldn’t even see this construction as described.

Try the antics – but don’t you dare not report the success to us!
A monkey and a horse belong to every good Villa Kunterbunt after all.

We have moved away from it New suggestion at the end of the post

But it can place bathrooms on Upper Bavarian meadows ;-)

I don’t understand

Man, plan a nicely functioning bathroom with a chic bathtub, but not with such a foolhardy stunt.

We are doing that, below is the new suggestion

New suggestion:
We used Paint skills, roughly to scale ;-)



Probably the only problem will be the optical bottleneck between the sink and the bathtub. Possibly, we can still squeeze out 3 cm per wall by removing drywall and styrofoam. Furthermore, the concrete section between the sink and the shower can maybe be narrowed and the sink connections below carried out only externally, etc.

What do you think?
What else can you recommend?

Greetings & thanks

I had also examined the T. But 60 cm clearance is far too little for me.

Here is the view.

The beautiful spacious bathroom suddenly feels cramped.