21/11/2017
Building a whirlpool bath tub base-surround entirely out of “ill-advised” MDF [medium-density-fiber] although being really time-efficient, may look Okay for at least several months after a carpenter gets payed by the client for the work.* Good for them, yet bad for you. This previous trim-work was done in a "new house" of a new client, which had been built within the past 5-10 years.
Thus inadequate prior workmanship provides for my “job-security” in my sort of carpentry, since I have to come back at this soon-later time and re-build it adequately now, as I would have wanted to do for a good friend, a total stranger whom I respected as a fellow human, or for myself perhaps. Poplar hardwood now, not MDF.
It now has an easily removable hidden access panel on 1/2 of the front [where the faucet plumbing is] and has hidden “push-latch” double door panels on the other 1/2 with some storage for some of the “ nasties” you might want to store in your whirlpool bath area. [keep the batteries dry]
I don’t really know if someone typically would truly recognize the difference now, though?
At first-sight, it does sort of look the same.
It’s not though.
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11/21/17. -B-j B
* note: the surface-swelling from the totally un-anticipated exposure to water [go-figure] does give it an “antique-patina”. This effect is really difficult to simulate, and had been really trendy in the mid-1970’s.
