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</head><body><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Eric,</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We have a jetted tub in the master bathroom and installed an air bubble tub (lots of small holes that release air all over the bottom of the tub) in the bathroom our son uses. They are very, very different. The jetted tub is more of a direct massage whereas the air tub is gentler. Frankly, I find the jetted tub more relaxing but the air tub more therapeutic.</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">As for heating I, too, highly recommend underfloor heating, and I agree with the other comments that it needs to be left on at all times. We recently remodeled our family room, which a prior owner converted from a 2 car garage. The floor is plywood on sleepers on a grade-level concrete slab. The room, and particularly the floor, was always cold. When we did the remodel we installed underfloor heating (we went with Schluter Ditra-Heat) and a tile floor. It has made a huge difference. It does not keep the room warm alone (the HVAC improvements do that), but it certainly helps keep the room warm and the floor is nice and warm for the feet.</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Tom</p><blockquote type="cite">On November 17, 2017 at 6:13 PM <a href="mailto:eric@megageek.com">eric@megageek.com</a> wrote:<br><br><br>So I was deployed with the Army to DC back in Aug. I thought it would be a great time for my B-I-L contractor for fix my bathroom. It needed to be gutted and redone due to poor design originally, some water leaks, and no insulation. (He was working on it intermittently when he didn't have other jobs.)<br><br>Now comes the time to decided on what to put back in. Being stuck in DC, I don't have access to see the floor models and such. But I've narrowed it down to two questions...<br>(Well, two questions with sub questions.) 8>)<br><br>First, is the tub. I'm installing a new tub and I was wondering about a jetted tub. There seem to be two different options. There is the traditional water jet type, and there is a new, air bubble type. Since I can't try it before I have to decided, I was hoping I could get some advice here.<br><br>Note-I am looking for tub that I can sit in and 'soak' muscles and such. After a long day in the fields or cutting wood, I'm at an age where I don't heal quick. I was hoping I could sit in the tub and get some circulation value from it. Do these air bubbles work better/worst/not at all? Are they a gimmick? I'm not looking for 'luxury' just utilitarian 'healing.' I hope I'm getting my point across. 8>0 I think they even have a tub that has both, but I don't know if it would be worth it. Anything else I should look for in a tub like this?<br><br>Next question,<br>This is a small bathroom and it normally doesn't heat up as much as I would like on cold mornings. I was thinking about a supplemental heater in the room. The options here seem to be an electric wall unit, or a radiant floor option. I love radiant flooring, but since this is a bathroom, I wasn't sure about keeping it warm all the time. The heater would be the best for turning on when needed and turning off. But I was wondering if the radiant floor, keeping it warmer all the time might be more efficient? Or if it could heat it up quickly if I didn't keep it warmer all the time (but I doubt this.) This was the company he has experience with <a href="http://www.warmfloor.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.warmfloor.com/</a>. Note, it will be a tile floor when done. Is there a good way to figure what option is more efficient?<br><br>So there are the two questions. I'd love to hear any opinions or experience with either or both.<br><br>To try and make this shop related, I use this bathroom to clean up my filthy, greasy self every time I return from the shop! 8>)<br><br><br>Sent from my Commodore 64 on a 2400 Baud Modem.<br>Tech Viper<br>"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." 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