We're replacing the bathtub in our master bathroom with a shower and the reason is simple. It's a crappy bathtub, made of plastic, and it wasn't installed correctly to begin with.

In the past, I took a lot of heat for the mistakes that were made when our house was built, such as the when the plumbing was being put in and when the paint was being applied. I shouldn't have been too hard on myself. The contractor picked the month we were out of the country to do the brunt of the things we've found wrong in the last two years. It's too late to complain about it to anyone that matters and it's not really worth it — the contractor is in prison for various counts of fraud, according to our contacts in the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation, kind of like the FBI in the US).

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