Bathtubs from special polymer – acrylic, according to sellers and according to buyers, have the best operational characteristics, than metal products. However that after installation in the house it was fully possible to estimate all advantages of new plumbing, it is necessary to know how to choose an acrylic bathtub. It is necessary to be guided at the same time not only by product cost, but also by its appearance, type, the sizes, etc.
How to choose acrylic bathtubs - councils
First of all, the bathtub has to approach by the size. Experts advise to choose the following models:
- No more than 70 cm high – in such it is easy for child to climb even.
- Not less than 60 cm in depth – in it it will be possible to plunge completely into water, without risking to choke.
- From 1.5 to 1.8 m long – an average value, perhaps, the sizes of the room I allow to establish it in it and longer bathtub if it it is required in order that you could accommodate freely in it.
- Width of a bathtub can be absolutely different therefore here it is necessary to be guided only by the personal preferences, considering, however, and bathroom dimensions.
Besides, it is necessary to think of that plumbing harmoniously fitted into an interior that it could be connected without problems to the sewerage and the water system.
Of course, to get into a bathtub and to test as far as in it it is convenient, in shop it is impossible. But the product can be examined and felt carefully. And it should be made, special attention having paid integrity of a covering, to layer thickness (it can be understood, having taped boards – a sound there has to be a deaf), to quantity of the reinforced layers (it can be learned from the selling assistant).
What acrylic bathtub it is better to choose depending on a look?
If you do not know how to choose acrylic bathtubs, then it is possible to make a start from a type of a product. They happen:
- from extruded acrylic;
- from cast acrylic.
The models made of cast material, stronger, and here extruded polymer can crack over time. The term of their service is no more than ten years. But cast bathtubs and more expensive.
How to choose a qualitative acrylic bathtub - a conclusion
Summarizing all aforesaid how it is correct to choose an acrylic bathtub, one may say, that such product has to be:
- not cheap;
- with a smooth surface without yellow sites, foreign impregnations, scratches, chips, etc.;
- thickness of an acrylic layer – the more the better;
- without foreign chemical smell.