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Claw Foot Tub Notes

We shopped around for a bit for a claw foot tub in Toronto.
The best price we found was 195 dollars from the guy on queen by dovercourt, Royal, but they were pretty beat up, no hardware.
The "worst" price we found was a brand new tub at "taps" for $1100, and matching fitting for 1000$
Bought a second-hand cast iron clawfoot tub from Restore, complete with cast iron feet, facets, and shower pipine and curtain rail for $350 cnd.
It was not in perfect shape, but in reasonable shape.
The chrome all needed a good cleaning which was done with you basic bathroom cleaning supplied and a good 3M scrubby.
half of the unit had 4 coats of paint on it and the other half had 2 coats.
the tub's exterior was brushed down with a stiff wire brush, then painted with a coat or two of tremclad.
the feet were stripped, first with acetone, then with Bher's "The Stripper", all done outside, over time, many repetitions.
after 99% of the crap was off the feet I took a wire brush dremel tool and buffed up the feet.
They were then coated with Tremclad Polyeurethane.

Use city of toronto transfer stations. I took a half a minivan of stuff to the transfer station on bermunsy and it cost me 12.50$ and 28 minutes.