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First, a Bath Fitter consultant will take measurements and help you choose customizations and accessories that make your bath uniquely you. Next, we custom make your new tub or shower to fit perfectly in your home. Finally, your new bathtub and wall liners are installed right over your existing ones, and your installation professional will do any necessary cleaning or repairs while they’re there. You can be soaking in a new tub in as little as 24 hours.

The Bath Fitter Bathtub Remodel Process

• Start-To-Finish-Care

  With 35+ years of experience, Bath Fitter has perfected our bathtub remodel process. Nothing is outsourced — a Bath Fitter expert will take care of you every step of the way.

• Perfect Measurement

  Bath Fitter tools, made specifically for our process, take precise measurements that guarantee a perfect fit

• Custom Made

  We manufacture our bathtubs in Canada, custom made for your home. We distribute to your local Bath Fitter, who exclusively uses our innovative process.

• One-Day Installation

  Your new bath is installed by a Bath Fitter expert so you know the job is done right. Every Bath Fitter bathtub installation is backed by a lifetime warranty.

Start-To-Finish-Care

With 35+ years of experience, Bath Fitter has perfected our bathtub remodel process. Nothing is outsourced — a Bath Fitter expert will take care of you every step of the way.

Start-To-Finish-Care

Perfect Measurement

Bath Fitter tools, made specifically for our process, take precise measurements that guarantee a perfect fit

Perfect Measurement

Custom Made

We manufacture our bathtubs in Canada, custom made for your home. We distribute to your local Bath Fitter, who exclusively uses our innovative process.

Custom Made

One-Day Installation

Your new bath is installed by a Bath Fitter expert so you know the job is done right. Every Bath Fitter bathtub installation is backed by a lifetime warranty.

One-Day Installation

Bathtub Remodel: Before & After

These bath transformations are real, not from reality TV. And all the installations took as little as one day without the mess of demolition. Check out these 25 amazing master bathroom design ideas and see for yourself the difference Bath Fitter can make when it comes to renovating your bathtub.

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Why a bathtub liner?

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The result is a great looking, high-quality tub or shower.

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Bathroom Remodel Process | Bathroom Renovations | Bath Fitter

After 35+ years and millions of installs, you can trust our proprietary bath and shower remodel process.

Bath Fitter owns every step of your bathroom renovation from start to finish, so we can guarantee the very best quality and efficiency.

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It All Begins With The Bath Fitter Acrylic Sheet

Built to last a lifetime

Our sheets, among the most durable on the market, are custom molded into the bathtubs, showers, accessories, and exclusive one-piece wall panels that millions of customers have come to rely on.

We control the process, beginning with manufacturing and ending with the installation and customer service that touches every customer we meet.

Step By Step: Our Remodel Process

• Consultation & Design

  A Bath Fitter consultant will come to your home and answer any questions you might have about our process, so you know exactly what to expect. Together, you’ll walk through the style and color options for your bathtub or shower, as well as accessories. Schedule a virtual consultation for even more convenience.

• Measurements

  At the consultation, our design expert will take detailed measurements of your bath and wall, so we’re ready to start making your custom bath.

• Custom Manufactured

  Your bathtub and wall is custom made to fit your home’s precise measurements for a one-of-a-kind bath remodel.

• Preparation

  On the day of installation, our Bath Fitter technician will start by cleaning your existing bath area and making any necessary repairs. That strong foundation helps ensure your bath lasts a lifetime.

• Installation

  Here’s where Bath Fitter really shines: our one-day installation. We install your tub or shower liner right over your existing bath with no demolition. You’ll be soaking in a brand new tub within 24 hours.

Consultation & Design

A Bath Fitter consultant will come to your home and answer any questions you might have about our process, so you know exactly what to expect. Together, you’ll walk through the style and color options for your bathtub or shower, as well as accessories. Schedule a virtual consultation for even more convenience.

Consultation & Design

Measurements

At the consultation, our design expert will take detailed measurements of your bath and wall, so we’re ready to start making your custom bath.

Measurements

Custom Manufactured

Your bathtub and wall is custom made to fit your home’s precise measurements for a one-of-a-kind bath remodel.

Custom Manufactured

Preparation

On the day of installation, our Bath Fitter technician will start by cleaning your existing bath area and making any necessary repairs. That strong foundation helps ensure your bath lasts a lifetime.

Preparation

Installation

Here’s where Bath Fitter really shines: our one-day installation. We install your tub or shower liner right over your existing bath with no demolition. You’ll be soaking in a brand new tub within 24 hours.

Installation

Before & After

These bathroom renovations and transformations are real, not from reality TV. And all the installations took one day, without the mess of demolition. See for yourself the difference Bath Fitter can make.

Or get creative and check out the bathroom design inspiration board

BeforeAfter

Design your own bathroom

Mix & match styles.

Try Our Design Tool

Thousands of options

Customizations & Accessories

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Book A FREE consultation by calling us at 1 (800) 892-2847 or by using the link below to Book a preferred date and time!

90,000 Afonya of the 21st century quit drinking and chasing good money

Komsomolskaya Pravda

Economics: Tested

Alexey Ovchinnikov

March 25, 2019 1:00

KP correspondent Alexei Ovchinnikov was arranged by the student of the plumber and was amazed at how it changed how changed it changed this profession

Plumber Afonya, the hero of the Soviet tragicomedy of the same name directed by Georgy Daneliya, is a primordially Russian type: he is not a fool to drink, but he has golden hands, and you can always negotiate with him for “liquid currency”. Photo: frame from movie

The plumber Afonya, the hero of the Soviet tragicomedy of the same name directed by Georgy Danelia, is a primordially Russian type: he is not a fool to drink, but he has golden hands, and you can always negotiate with him for “liquid currency”. But in just a few years, such plump plumbers, familiar to us, seem to have died out as a class. More and more often people from Central Asia come from Moscow management companies on calls, and sober and businesslike young people in ironed overalls come from advertisements. The Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent walked around apartments with a modern plumber to understand how and why this profession has changed. nine0004

“They imposed students on me, interns! I’m learning!”

– A student, then? OK, let’s try. But let’s agree: no need for phrases like, “a plumber spends his life in shit” – these jokes are tired. When they say so, I usually ask again: can you send your children and wife to Pattaya for a month in the winter? Mine are heating up right now!

Valera – one of those whose ads can be found on the Internet marked “husband for an hour” – we meet at McDonald’s. He is categorically unlike that “Afonya” from the film, and if he hadn’t told me in advance what he looks like, I would never have guessed what he was doing: expensive jeans and a jacket – well, a typical office workaholic. nine0004

– We’ll change clothes on the spot, and you, by the way, would do well to shave, so that there is no hint of a haunted look, – he instructs me, not looking up from the tablet. Like most of his colleagues, Valera moved to the Internet a long time ago, left his profile and looks for orders here.

– There are a couple of works for tomorrow, one for the day after tomorrow, and now we’ll go here, – Valera pokes at him and somehow mischievously smiles: – You’re lucky, student!

Looking at the screen: installing a toilet and replacing a sewer riser in his apartment. “Husband for an hour” calls up the client: yes, local plumbers promised to turn off the water by the deadline. nine0004

– Sereg, I’ll call in now, I’ll leave the list, – Valera says to someone and sends a list of some pipes and couplings. And now we are already going to his friend, where everything we need has been put aside for us.

– Did you call the plumber? – an hour later he presses the intercom button: – I’m with a trainee.

There’s a hitch.

– You didn’t say… Does he have a passport? nine0004

Access door opens.

Unlike the hero Leonid Kuravlev, our correspondent, who went to plumbing, immediately decided for himself: work clothes should be neat and comfortable, and tools should be kept in exemplary condition. Photo: Ivan MAKEEV

“Do you teach lessons? Teach! You can’t go anywhere without education.”

We change into clean overalls and they hand me a basin. Yes, these were not the most pleasant moments in my life. The water was blocked for our arrival, the entrance was plastered with tearful requests not to use the toilet at this time, but will everyone listen to this? nine0004

– Consider: we are on the 4th floor of a 12-story building, the distance between floors is three meters, in the drain tank – 5 liters, – my teacher adds optimism. – Plus – the weight of what merges. Acceleration of gravity – 9.8 meters per second, and if anyone on the 12th floor decides to relieve himself . ..

It seems that we hear how the teeth of the adding machine click in his head.

– In short: hold on tight – it will accelerate to 70 kilometers!

Neighbors turned out to be people who read and we did not have to test that same acceleration in practice. The deed is done and Valera goes to wash her hands. nine0004

– And who installed it? He points to the washbasin taps. – Why hot water on the right?

– What’s the difference? We got used to it already…

And he gives us another lecture:

– Most people are right-handed and, first of all, by inertia, they open the tap on the right, only then – the left one. And it is logical that there is a tap with cold water on the right, and hot water on the left. You are used to it, but what if there are children with their delicate skin in the house? And there is boiling water in a pipe at 50 degrees!

The client and I stand with our mouths open: we seem to have never thought about this simple (and quite logical thing).

– Wow, the plumbers have gone, – the customer whistles, having digested the information. – Where did you study?

– Ryazan branch of the Moscow Polytechnic! Yes – sign here: this is a contract, this is a guarantee – the work is insured.

The client whistles again. Valera receives 6 thousand for her work and goes to the next order.

“Everyone builds, but saves”

And there are many such plumbers with higher education as Valera on the Internet. This “Baumanka” graduated, that one – a construction university. I call on the first available ads.

– I am a ship mechanic by education, – master Dmitry Lyubimov, who once arrived in Moscow from Astrakhan, admits. – This is a good technical education, which allows you to keep the level and maintain fairly complex systems. Why am I not working in my specialty? The salaries of a ship mechanic at sea and a plumber are about the same. The only difference is that you don’t work for your uncle. Three or four years ago, with 5-7 applications per day, it reached 200 thousand per month. Now – an average of 120-130 thousand: people are not ready to spend big money. Although everything is under construction, but save. nine0004

– Now among the professional plumbers there are no longer pet-rooms in the form that we all knew about, – says plumber Vitaly Apeev, he is also not a Muscovite. – And this is not the same person who does everything with a hammer, tow and an adjustable wrench. Many of us constantly go to special exhibitions – technological innovations constantly appear in this area and we need to understand them … Muscovites? There is, but not much – the work is considered not prestigious. Basically – these are guys from the regions involved in private orders. Plus – the near abroad. nine0004

– And who is left in the management companies?

– Modern “Afoni” for the most part left there a long time ago, and there are guest workers from Central Asia who sit on small salaries and can only do the simplest work. And yet we very often have to redo everything behind them. Colleagues tell whole anecdotes.

“You’ve done a hack and look for it later”

Anecdotes about the quality of services of plumbers from management companies on the forums are enough for a good book. The stories are typical: one recalls a pensioner who was installed upside down by the crooked-handed craftsmen with a new water meter – as a result, it began to spin in the other direction, from zero quickly reached 99999 and brought the hostess to validol. The other is about a pipe immured into the wall for some reason. The third one is about bronze paint, which resourceful migrant workers used to paint the valves – to make them look like new ones…

– But here at least they are in control, there is something to complain about, – continues Apeev. – It is even worse when, according to the same ads, outright scammers are trusted, most often foreigners from neighboring countries. Right now, I am completely redoing one apartment after the Moldovans, who took the money, did outright hack work and look for them. I saw real human tragedies. nine0004

– And how not to run into such?

– There are sites where masters must pass a qualifying exam in college, – says Dmitry Lyubimov. – And your profile will simply not appear there if you have not passed it. And they drive seriously: safety precautions, theory, practice … And this speaks of the level. Unlike the same housing office. And the client, choosing a specialist, sees – such sites guarantee that the master has the necessary knowledge, his data is also verified. Those who have not passed the exam post ads on various free classifieds sites. This is where you can run into non-professionals, and the same “Afon” from the forgotten past – with fumes and rudeness. For us, these things are an unaffordable luxury – we will punish ourselves …

And, it seems, this is the main thing that distinguishes that cinematic Afonya from his modern successor of the profession: a reputation that modern plumbers are afraid of losing. It is worth one angry client to complain about the same unpleasant smell and that’s it: such a review will appear on service sites! In terms of efficiency, it will be much more effective than the Soviet “staging” and reprimands, because along with this, the source of income automatically disappears. And then you suddenly notice that it is for this reason that intelligent traffic cops and polite cashiers appeared in the supermarket. Yes, it has become a good habit. And we, in the turmoil of life, did not immediately notice this …

OPINION

Afoni screenwriter Alexander BORODYANSKI Y:

At that time, many worked part-time for a bottle. This time has passed

– Sometimes you have to call plumbers, because today they are completely different – polite, clean people come, they don’t carry fumes, normal people. Yes, and the people of that time were normal, it was just that the time was different and many worked part-time for a bottle. I remember when we chose location for filming in the Yaroslavl region, we argued with Georgy Danelia that I would go to the store on that tractor now for a bottle. And went! And what – the tractor driver will collect it, or what will happen? Of course not. Then they drank everything and everywhere. I once worked as a painter, we also drank at lunch, and after that we worked in a good mood. So it was accepted. nine0004

At the same time, one very interesting observation was made in Japan, where our film was also screened. The newspaper “Asahi” wrote then: the film “Afonya” shows the dignity of socialism, the protection of the rights of an ordinary hard worker. Like, Afonya drinks, and breaks work, and skips all the time, but no one can fire him for this – meetings are held, conversations, reprimands, put on display … Then it was really difficult to dismiss such an employee – the unions immediately stood up. Today everything has changed – I look, for example, at my students, they are also more relaxed about alcohol, and in general people have begun to drink less. In capitalism, no one will bail such a truant – a person will quickly lose his job …

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China Plumbing Sourcing – Guangzhou Sourcing

China Plumbing Sourcing

China Plumbing Showroom

In this blog post, we want to consider whether how to buy plumbing fixtures in China and what you can expect. Plumbing is an integral part of every project, be it a commercial building project, a hotel/restaurant project, or a residential project. Thus, we want to show you how you can save a lot by buying sanitary ware directly from China. For more information, you can also check out our plumbing product page. nine0004

Almost all major brands such as KOHLER now manufacture sanitary ware in China. China’s sanitary ware quality standards have improved significantly in recent years, with even local designs now competing with international brand standards. China’s sanitary ware production center is primarily Foshan, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Chaozhou, where many manufacturers producing high quality swimming pools, bathtubs, toilets and more are located.

Internet search

As international trade has become more accessible through Alibaba.com and other trading platforms, more private labels have been created in the sanitary ware and similar product categories. But not all of them also deliver the quality they often promise. Some Chinese plumbing suppliers are still trying to save money and therefore compromise on quality and cut corners so you may run into unexpected quality issues. But, on the other hand, the fact that all major Western brands, for example, manufacture their sanitary ware in China, shows that super-high quality products come from China. We will help you eliminate all risks and get the best plumbing in its class. nine0004

Contemporary design at affordable prices

While the big brands are still often leading the way in new product design trends, Chinese sanitary ware manufacturers have caught up. Many similar and very modern options are available, at no additional cost to a branded product. Historical charts also show that the market share of small sanitary ware brands/companies and private labels is constantly increasing, which is mainly driven by the huge product development of Chinese manufacturers. nine0004

While some plumbing products have not changed and are likely to remain the same in functionality and working design, some other products have changed a lot in recent years. The best example for this is smart toilets – toilets that can clean themselves, have heated seats and many other automations. China, being the number one manufacturing center for sanitary ware, certainly benefits greatly from this change. As such, there are countless options on the market that are technologically competitive with the heavyweights in the industry. nine0004

Work with us

Most of the sanitary ware we purchase from China is for construction projects. We work closely with project designers and architects to find the perfect sanitary ware. In the first step, we often receive a BOQ or a procurement schedule with proposed models (often big brands), which we then try to match with similar options from our supplier network. After that, we will issue specifications and drawings for approval. If necessary, we also create bathroom layouts so you can see how all the plumbing will “play together”. nine0004

Next, we maintain plumbing catalogs. This means interior designers can also choose directly from our product lines.

Through our extensive network of suppliers and manufacturers, we have established relationships that result in lower prices. In addition, these suppliers are verified and approved by us, so we can stand up to our name for the quality of our products. In addition, we have strict quality management systems in place for our suppliers to help us monitor and resolve quality issues as soon as they arise. While our suppliers are approved and validated, we will always quality control all deliveries to ensure the perfect level of quality. In addition to these reasons, we can also look for unique sanitary ware in local markets, which is very important for small order volumes. Or we customize the customized model especially for you when the quantity is large enough.