Scratching my Head about this tub design

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s1lence1

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I bought this house as is and one of the bathrooms has a tub that creates it's own dilemma.

As you can see if anyone uses the shower the water by design will run off onto the bathroom floor. There isn't a floor drain, the only way to clean up the floor is with a mop and bucket. To make things worse, the water pools up on the back side of the tub to about 1/2" before it runs out.

I thought about a circular curtain but I am not a fan of how tacky they look. A glass enclosure is out of the question because of the cost of curved glass so the only way I can think of to fix the issue is to remove the tile and raise it up flush with the tub but even that would be mickey-mouse because of the crown style rim.

Any suggestions would be warmly appreciated, my only other issue with the house is the Italian shower with 10 outlets supplied entirely with 3/8" Pex tubing creating a really bad water pressure issue.
 
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You should either come to like circular shower curtains, take baths, or start construction. You could use a wet vac to pick up water.
 
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I'll make it three votes for the circular curtain rod. Did one on my starter house during my starter marriage back in the late seventies. There was a clawfoot tub there where I replaced the faucet with a faucet that had a shower riser built in. You'll need two shower curtains. There's some clear ones with Disney characters on them that I think are especially cute. That orange fish with the stripes is my personal favorite. Or, Dora the explorer; another good one.

I do have a customer that has a drop-in tub with a shower arrangement. Unlike yours, the problems were figured out in advance. The tub was rectangular with a shower curtain across the front, and the ditch between the tub and the wall had an imbedded bar
sink drain in the tile, and the tile sloped to it. The drain went down through the platform, made a 90, and teed into the vertical leg of the waste and overflow. The original piping over to the tee was a rigged up mess made out of a dishwasher drain hose. It clogged up and the lady of the house came down with a testosterone attack and jumped on it with a wire coat hanger. Tore up the pipe. After a protracted and painful and successful attempt to access the problem drain assembly, I replaced everything with slip-joint fittings off the van and everything's good.

A little comic relief is better than nothing, I hope.
 

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You should either come to like circular shower curtains, take baths, or start construction. You could use a wet vac to pick up water.

Best answer yet but thanks all for the laughs. I was somewhat resigned to the circular shower curtain but from some reason when I picture it I always imagine that scene from The Karate Kid when he went to the dance disguised as a shower...



Off to the Finding Nemo fabric section for me I guess!
 
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