On Dec 21, 10:35*pm, Harry K wrote:
On Dec 21, 7:06*pm, Harry K wrote:



On Dec 21, 10:55*am, Jules Richardson

wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:28:30 -0800, Harry K wrote:
You are ignoring the need for having the drain on either the left or
right end depending on location. *Left hand drain could not be just
turned around to make it a right hand one. *Your "finished" side would
be against the wall.

Wait... are we getting mixed up here? By 'sides' I'm talking about the
longest sides, by 'ends' I mean the shorter "sides" at the head and foot
of the bath...

No, there is no confusion. *Look at any tub and you will see one
finished "long" side and one unfinished "long side" (same for ends,
some only one finished some none). *Try turning a Lefty that looks
good that way and trun it around, now try to make that "panel' of
yours look just as good as what was the finished side.

That's my whole point, anyway - the old baths that I have can't be turned
round to suit any location, because only one (long) side is covered (and
maybe the bottom end too, but I can't see that), and it's a single-piece
casting.

Having a seperate panel for a (long) side would mean one design of bath
that could fit any location, with the panel attached by the installer to
the exposed side, but there must have been a reason that they weren't
designed that way; perhaps casting the bath with a little groove on the
underside of the outer-edge lip that the panel could slot up into was too
complex, or something (or it's an inventory thing as DD mentioned).

Well, if you can design a 'panel' that will be seamless or at least
look as good as a seamless facing into the room....

Another possibility is that they *only* offered the bath in the one
configuration, and you were supposed to design the room around it. Seems
unlikely, but who knows...

cheers

Nope, the choice was to build 'lefts' and 'rights' or put a finished
side all around.

Harry K

Hmmm...after a bit more thought...If a removable panel can be designed
to look good then the real answer is to produce a tub with no sides or
ends and provide one long panel and either one, two or no short
panels. *It would now fit any bath design. The 'appearance factor'
should not be a hard problem to solve.

Harry K

I still don't see how you would deal with the flange that goes on the
"unfinished" side.

I am referring to the flange that gets covered by the wallboard...the
flange shown up against the studs in this pictu

http://www.solwerks.net/blog/hello/3...4-09.12.16.jpg