Thoughts on sealing a bathtub's drains

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Andyroo

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I've got a couple of 1950s-60s bathtubs down in the lower garden, from when we refit this ol' farmhouse. Thanks again to Fishdance for walking me through the 230gal in-wall-install.

The tubs hold water nicely for a time, then they leak-out, dry, then hold water again to start over. It seems tree roots are getting up & into the main/bottom drain; they're only plugged with a & needing to replace (mozzie control) but the other stuff mostly just comes back up. I'm not in any rush to kill/damage my avocado tree ;)

SO, what thoughts on permanently sealing? I'm thinking polyurathane (5200'ish) around/under the bath-stopper, or a hard plastic or concrete disk, or maybe dome the cement in & over the hole & then seal with epoxy/polyurethane. All will be ugly if/when visible - with mud & plants I'm not terribly worried about that so long as I can get some lotus properly established, maybe some flowers, maybe some nuts, maybe some prettier guppies.

We don't suffer winter 'round here, no.
 
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3m 5200 is good stuff… not sure anything will stick that well to the tub material tho. Id go with a butterfly type plug. You can take it out to drain and clean the tubs if needed also. They come in an erray of sizes and styles.
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