Clawfoot Tub

So I am working on refinishing our upstairs bathroom. I have been working on this since we purchased the house.  Well there was a break in which I brooded six chicks in the tub in that bathroom, but I mean they were only there for like 8 weeks. Anyway I located a claw foot tub that was my bosses father in laws. I bought it for a mere $125 dollars. It was a steal. It is in excellent condition. The date on the bottom says it was manufactured in August of 1923. The tub started its journey near Cleveland Ohio. Which is convenient because we have a second office in Cleveland. So the tub was delivered to our Cleveland office. From there it came down on an interoffice transfer (we have one every other week). apparently no one warned the drivers that there was a tub on the truck because they were both pretty confused when all was said and done. So now that I have my tub in the office I have begun to refurbish the outside of the tub. This a the moment involves getting the feet and plumbing off, and stripping away all the paint. Unfortunately one of the feet was badly rusted on and broke during removal. The other three are in great condition. I will have the last one recast by a company out of Seattle,Wa. Anyway I'm sure there will be many more bost about the tub and the bathroom, but here are a couple of the first!

The plumbing is still on in this picture. It is in great shape! You can see it was repainted recently with the  blue and brown ragging texture. That layer of paint comes of fairly easily. The white paint is a little more difficult.










In this photo you can see the foot that is to eventually be broken off in the attempt to remove it from the tub. Also the drain is still in in this picture. The last owner had put some sort of plumbers putty around the drain because it was much too small. It took me about an hour with a hammer and chisel to remove all the hardened putty and knock the drain out.