Make A Beautiful Removable Bathtub Cover

OK people... this is going to be different for each of your own specific tubs so we're giving general info on how we did ours. This post shows a few of the steps. Check our site link within this post to get full details. This was our garden tub. As we don't use tubs it was just taking up space and always full of cat hair. (We're not tub people, but we're cat people.) We came up with idea of a removable cover.

First we measured all directions.

We chose to use cheap pine boards 3.5″ wide and cut to the width of the bathtub… Enough pieces to go across the top..

Because our faucet was mounted to the tub itself, we had to measure around it to cut out the space. If your faucets are wall-mounted, simply skip this step.  

After cutting our main boards we used a jigsaw to cut the space for the faucet.

Once the sanding was done we painted them.

Once the paint is dry, do a dry-fit of your work and line it up to make sure everything looks right.

For convenience when removing, we opted to string our panels together with some heavy duty fabric. This is completely optional and, as we discovered, would work better for a smaller, standard size bathtub. The amount of wood needed for a garden tub was a little too heavy and cumbersome for this approach.

We also chose to sand ALL of the edges of each board at an angle, taking off the sharp corners. This really is worth the extra 15 minutes and will give your project a much more finished look, so we highly recommend it.

Because we had the back of the tub seat to deal with, we placed out 1″x 2″ boards around the frame of the tub and then unrolled our wooden topper. This gave us a level surface that we were happy with.

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