My Beef With Flippers (Pittsburgh, Lebanon: sale, 2015, purchaser)

[fleetiebelle]

Originally Posted by zalewskimm

Agree. Life isn't fun without a bathtub. Showers are for people with too much stress in their lives trying to climb the corporate ladder perhaps and cram a million things into a day and don't see the value in soaking in a tub, taking time for their health. Lol..

I don't see much healthful about wasting time sitting in a vat of rapidly cooling water (and my own filth) when I could be warm and dry and doing something else that I actually find relaxing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[UKyank]

While personally I don’t ever use tubs so I don’t care, but in my house someone spent a lot of money installing a very large & elaborate jacuzzi tub. The problem is that the hot water tank has less capacity then it takes to filll up the tub which makes it more or less useless if you want a hot bath.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by UKyank

While personally I don’t ever use tubs so I don’t care, but in my house someone spent a lot of money installing a very large & elaborate jacuzzi tub. The problem is that the hot water tank has less capacity then it takes to filll up the tub which makes it more or less useless if you want a hot bath.

When we were looking at houses we saw this home on Monterrey Street on the North Side. It didn't have a lot of original features left inside (and a dumb great room layout on the first floor) but it had a nice backyard, historic facade, and was in a great location.

My wife vetoed it for one reason. The previous owners (or maybe the owners before) converted what was the rear bedroom on the second floor into a master bath and a second-floor laundry closet. But they did a terrible job of it. The resulting bathroom was ginormous with a ton of wasted space - particularly due to a Jacuzzi tub installed diagonally to one corner of the room on a raised pedestal. The original bathroom off the main hall was much better (not original to the home of course, but older and tastefully done).

My wife loved the location, but she was nitpicky enough to veto the house because she would have felt obligated to rip out the bathroom entirely, which would cost a lot of money and cause the resale value of the home to drop.

[Copanut]

Can't remember the last time I took a bath, maybe 4th grade. First thing we did when we bought our current house was rip out the 50 gallon Jacuzzi tub in the MB. But get rid of the Pittsburgh Toilet, NEVER!

[ferraris]

Originally Posted by eschaton

No, but the Japanese manage it.

Bathing in Japan is pretty different than in the US. The toilet and bath are in separate rooms. The bath(tub) room is typically a wet room with a floor drain, so you actually do the cleaning with a shower head or bucket before getting into the tub. The tub itself is just for soaking, not cleaning.

But I agree with your sentiment. A tub is nice if you have kids, but no way is it really necessary.

[guy2073]

Originally Posted by UKyank

While personally I don’t ever use tubs so I don’t care, but in my house someone spent a lot of money installing a very large & elaborate jacuzzi tub. The problem is that the hot water tank has less capacity then it takes to filll up the tub which makes it more or less useless if you want a hot bath.

I installed an electric instant hot water tank between my hot water tank and my tub, when the water starts getting cold the instant tank takes over. I did all the work myself. It costs me about $600 in parts, my wife has used the tub 3 times in 6 years.

[svband76]

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle

I don't see much healthful about wasting time sitting in a vat of rapidly cooling water (and my own filth) when I could be warm and dry and doing something else that I actually find relaxing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ha! Unless you're a chimney sweeper or coal miner, how dirty can one get?

[Goinback2011]

The conflicting trends of gigantic tubs and water saver shower heads and toilets are positively moronic.

And then there are the front loader washers that don't clean clothes.

[Twenty Years in the Burgh]

Buying a house without a bathtub would have been unthinkable for me. Even though the cast iron tub/shower combo is a bit short for a tall woman, I've taken a soak in it at least once a week since I bought the house. Oddly enough, while my last two new construction houses had the typical huge Jacuzzi tub/separate shower combo, I didn't soak nearly as often as the tubs took long to fill up and were a pain to keep clean. I do wish, though, that the house had the fantastic claw foot tub my parents have in their home. Those are the best for a long soak with a good book.

[Doowlle34]

Getting back to that original listing, I am surprised to see that it is already contingent! I thought that was pretty aggressively priced for a 3 bedroom, and I have seen aggressively priced Dormont flips sit for awhile. For example, this house:


https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sal...omePageTab=buy


was priced pretty aggressively back in November, and at least according to Zillow, the listing was removed in late December -- although I guess I'm not certain that this didn't sell (I assumed it didn't sell and was removed so it can be re-listed as "new" in a month or so).


I think someone did raise a good point about Dormont taxes a few pages back -- it would be hard to stomach the prospect of $7,000 or more a year in property/school tax burden for that 3 bedroom on Tolma. I also took a quick look at the current $250k and under market in Mt. Lebanon, and you can definitely get the same amount of space for equal (or less) money in Lebo -- although without the HGTv finishes. That said, the Tolma home is very convenient for T access, as well as the Beverly and Washington Road commercial districts.