Ideas for finding an inexpensive or secondhand bathtub?

[DonJuane]

I've never timed the time it takes to fill a tenaco in GTO but if it is like many cities, you won't be taking more than one bath per week. Water flow at a bathtub-filling rate is a luxury not many can manage because of the lack of unlimited high-pressure fast-flow water like we take for granted in the US.

**** Not to mention the small 20 gallon water heaters that are typical or the fact that no propane truck can pull up to your home and thus there is no possibility of the giant US-style propane tanks and instead only an option of small (on a relative scale compared to the US) propane tanks hauled up the hills to your home, making the constant requirement for massive amounts of heating fuel required for a bathtub an additional issue of consideration.

******* As a "lover of baths" I know that when the temperature was in the 30-40 range in my Texas home, a 40 gallon water heater would struggle to keep a bath "steaming hot" for more than about 30 minutes (with periodic "hot top-off supplements"), and could certainly not persist for more than one tub filling per every couple of hours. In other words the coolness of the concrete serving as the tub foundation cooled the water faster than a 40 gallon water heater was able to keep up with when it was super cold outside. But now that I'm in Mexico I find it wasn't until I witnessed every single gallon of fuel I use having to be toted up a hill on someone's back that I began to appreciate the true value of the energy that I consumed. It's also why I resigned I had likely taken my last bath when I sold my Texas home. Maybe that is why hot springs are so popular in Mexico. I now have a bumper sticker "I brake for hot springs" and while I desperately miss soaking in a bath, when I find a nice hot and steamy balneario, the trill of the encounter is a special treat.