Tell your bachelor owner to look up a product called Oh Yuk and pictures and videos of green crap (biofilm!) coming out of those jets. 
Just scroll down to videos:
https://www.amazon.com/Oh-Yuk-Jetted-System-Cleaner/dp/B008VGMWCO
Ewwwwwwww. . . .
We have just been informed that he ruled out the whirlpool tub. Thank God…they just scream 80s to me (could be wrong with the decade). This is just selfish. I don’t want to spend another 2 man days installing plumbing, electrical, troubleshooting and then be asked why does it cost so much???
Owner is already second guessing the labor costs on the spread sheet and we are only finishing Week 3. Hello??? Did you see all this crazy stuff we uncovered that has to be torn out and reworked? Maybe if we could give up on the crazy garage bathroom hack we could just tear it out and call it a day. But nooooo…he thinks his kids are going to come back from the beach and take a shower in there. I don’t think so, the two girls are going to claim it’s creepy, and tramp upstairs to their rooms where their products and clothes are.
Also, these bathrooms are the minimum 8x5 and the giant whirlpool tub is just going to make the room look smaller.
Hooray - no whirlpool tub!
Whirlpool tubs…very 90’s…early 90’s.
Ask me how I know!
Ahaha. Yup. So 1999. Ask me how I know. 
Free standing tubs seem to be the big freaking deal now. I always wonder where one would rest their glass of wine and iPhone while taking a bubble bath. Dragging a small side table in the bathroom does not seem to be very convenient, even if space allows for it.
I bought a rack that fits across my free standing tub. It has a magazine/book holder and a place for my wine and tv remote. Was able to get it in polished nickel to match all the fixtures so it looks quite nice. Believe me, if I’m going to relax in the tub there is going to be a place for my wine!
@BunsenBurner As the happy owner of a wonderful old clawfoot tub–deep and narrowish, great for soaking, and you can turn on the spigot for more hot water with your toes --I put my glass of wine on the floor next to the tub. I don’t take my phone into the tub, I read The New Yorker or a book. But the phone can sit on the floor also.
Everyone who stays here who likes baths says “Never get rid of that tub!” 
There are expandable racks that go across the tub that have specific holders for a wine glass, a candle and a book. You can get them in metal or in bamboo.
It was hard to find and too much money, but I also found a dish that sits on the curved edge of the tub and holds a bar of soap and a scrubbie. H loves that!
Those racks across the tub make me feel like a toddler strapped into a high chair with a tray in front of me. Not a relaxing feeling. Stuff goes to the side, so it is either a tub surround or a side table for me.
I looked at freestanding tubs in contemporary style. But this is going into a pre teen bathroom where she is probably taking a shower 98% of the time. The only reason a tub is going into the room is for resale in the future. Need a tub somewhere in the house!! So, it would be too dangerous to climb over the tall sides to get in and out all the time and we only have 60” length available.
I’m about to strap myself in for a wild ride:).
Just had another walkthrough with the owner and, as suspected, he wants every techno thing you can think of. They just spew out of his mouth every room we walk through I keep trying to get him to understand that wiring, and even more special stuff, has to be run through the walls. And you have to tell me EXACTLY where you want this 100 inch TV with Ethernet because we cannot guess where to pull all that stuff through the walls.
Wall mount toilet, steam shower (in a dinky master bath), central coffered ceilings in dinky master closet, fancy electric wall mounted fireplace, you name it…he wants it!!
Can he write any of this down??? Of course not. He got upset that we had bored a hole in master bath floor to try to start puzzling out where the master toilet drain lines are going to go. “wait…didn’t I tell you I want a euro style wall toilet??” No, you didn’t mention that.
He’s getting very anxious because we are moving too fast. I understand, it’s very stressful to make all these decisions. We are going to have to move to working on something that doesn’t require decisions so he can catch up with us.
Shoot. He sounds like a really difficult client.
I’m still bemused by the concept that this divorced dad with two daughters wants to embrace the bachelor lifestyle and simultaneously create a home for his girls. Did he not think any of this through ahead of time? Or is he hanging out with other cool divorced dads in the area (in the $2-3 million houses) and they’re saying, oh, you should get this and you should get that. And after a few beers he agrees!
“Did he not think any of this through ahead of time?”
apparently not!
“Or is he hanging out with other cool divorced dads in the area (in the $2-3 million houses) and they’re saying, oh, you should get this and you should get that. And after a few beers he agrees!”
It seems so!
be VERY CAREFUL ! @coralbrook !
this guy could be kryptonite!
Very good question @Marilyn … he has had 3 months to work on the building plans and figure out what he wants. When I came on board, the plans were not even done. When they were handed to me I assumed that he had been working on them diligently for months. I found a lot of errors and added some things and proceed to push push push his draftsman to get everything done. Turns out…”those are just copies of what they did in the remodel at the other condo”. The layouts on paper are not the layouts in his mind.
So, we are starting with the easy guest bathrooms and slowly trying to get to the hard rooms of kitchen and master baths. We cannot seem to do anything else with the master bath because of the large window in the wall.
I really wish I could drag your lawyer client here to our House2 and show him all this outdated junk that we have ripped out. A smart house of today is a dumb house of tomorrow. A cutting edge design of today is a heap of junk of tomorrow. Views, real wood, good layout, large windows, good bones, etc. are the same today and tomorrow. I am obviously preaching to the choir here CB.
I"m having deja vue all over again. cb, working to please a specific client – especially a difficult client!! – is not what you like to do. You will survive this, but remember that your forte is flipping houses to please a future generic client,
It sounds like this guy needs a serious talking to about budget and schedule. He needs to understand his responsibilities in this project.
If this guy really wants all this “stuff”, he needs to open up his wallet more, and that includes an increase in the fee being paid to @coralbrook.
No money…no additional stuff…
Clearly, he didn’t know he was buying a money pit to get everything he wants.
Oh…and he needs to define wants vs. needs…and also what has to be done to live there vs what might be added later.
I think I’m going to have to start separating what is needed to get done before he moves in versus what he could do later. Unfortunately, all this tech stuff needs to get built in now because we have to run wiring through the walls and ceilings. I am expecting that he will max out his l ittle sub panel at some point. There doesn’t seem to be an exterior ‘main panel’ for this unit. Each unit has a little sub panel in the garage (which we are going to have to move because it’s inside the garage bathroom!).
He doesn’t seem to mention budget, but he was taken back when I told him I estimated labor and management costs for the project at about $80,000. I have given up trying to estimate the materials cost for the project. For example, I sent him 5 choices for bathroom exhaust fans. One was a perfectly fine ultra quiet bath fan at about $45. But No… he wants the cool looking bells and whistles fancy fan for $140. Every single decision will take the budget in a different direction than what I would do for a flip.
This is his fan choice
https://www.build.com/aero-pure-vsf110d-s/s1209960?uid=2890918