A luxurious soak in the bathtub is that much better when you can sink all the way up to your chin. Use Deep Water Bath to override the overflow valve and get extra inches of water in the tub.
Home decorating blog Apartment Therapy directed us to this cool gadget. It fits over your tub’s drain overflow valve to let the water rise nearly to the rim. The semi-plug has a drain hole at the top, though, so your tub won’t actually overflow. It’s removable, too, and easy to stash when not in use. Pick it up at Amazon for around $US7.
For a self-made and much more permanent approach, Apartment Therapy has some other ideas for filling your tub nice and high. Check out the full post for those ideas and other tips on getting a nice, deep water soak. Share your favourite bathtime luxury tips in the comments.
Deep Water Bath [Amazon via Apartment Therapy]
NKT
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 12:21 PMYeah, let’s all use as much water as possible. ‘Cos we think it’s cool (or luxurious) to waste it. Just to be really boring (sorry), just 3% of all the earth’s water is freshwater, and just 1% of that we can access to drink. As this little planet gets covered in more and more people, perhaps suggesting having deep baths is a good idea isn’t such a good idea.
And that from a non-activist, non-environmentalist!
Pieces
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 1:50 PMWhat NKT said.A full bath uses 140 litres of water!
James Ponting
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 6:17 PMNo-one would call me particularly environmentally friendly, but even I raised my eyebrows at this one.
This may have been better kept to yourself, lest the less educated/intelligent among us decide to find other cool ways to waste water >.<
Also, I have to say I have never seen one of those devices :o All my baths just overflow when they are full :p
astrogirl
Friday, March 12, 2010 at 1:27 AMNever mind the device, if you filled it to the brim, wouldn’t the water overflow when you got in?? Water displacement and all that. o_@