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Originally Posted by jyl
The wife likes taking baths, so replacing the tub with a shower, or enclosing the tub with an opaque surround, won't work. There isn't extra room to add a shower, due to the size of the room and the house layout.
I do like the idea of having stainless steel handrails made. One long side of the tub is placed against the wall, and you enter over the other, exposed, long side. So the rails could anchor to the wall and/or ceiling and come out to encircle the two short ends of the tub and maybe curve in to partly encircle the exposed long side. That seems less groovy than a curved clear surround, but cheaper and more practical.
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You're welcome.
To take the idea further, you could have the ring for the shower curtain and the perimeter rail as a combined unit and come off the wall with a minimum of 4 points attached and perhaps an attachment to the ceiling on the front side. That way you know for sure that if someone grabs the rail for support that it won't fail to do what it was intended to do. The shower curtain needs to be outside the rail for 2 reasons: to be exposed for an aid and to help keep the curtain from being sucked into the center by the flow of the water from the head.
Design wise it might be tough to be able to run the curtain all the way into a corner, but if you use actual hooks and not rings, they could be able to pass by any uprights, but I see that as a tricky proposition w/o a lot of complexity which you don't need aesthetically.
I'd use 2 shower curtains that overlap or snap together that could be brushed aside for a bath.