Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Let me start by saying that the end result is a beautiful functioning tub at a great price and I recommend it without reservation. The ordering was easy and the tub was well protected, packaged and delivered with no problems. Keep an eye on the pricing though as I have seen it fluctuate by as much as $150! Now for the "What I Wish I Had Known" part: I remodeled my master bathroom myself and as such I had to know what the finished dimensions of the tub was and the rough-in requirements for the drain for the tub and the only thing that I could find on Amazon (the seller/manufacturer's website seemed to be a middleman and didn't have any helpful information at all!) was the tub and drain dimensions. There was no mention of the tub being supplied with a flexible drain to attach to the tub and run to the drain. The problem I ran into was that I put the floor drain exactly where the drain of the tub is whereas I could have offset the floor drain by as much as 24" but now I did not have enough clearance between the bottom of the tub drain fittings and the floor drain to utilize the supplied flexible drain. NOTE: The clearance between the bottom of the provided PVC fitting and the finished floor is 2". The flexible drain hose is sized to fit into a 1.5" drain but the dimension drawing (referenced above) showed a 2" drain which is what I roughed in. Since I wasn't going to have enough clearance I decided to attach a six-inch 1.5" pipe to the vendor supplied black PVC female fitting and then slid that whole pipe inside of the 2" drain which fit nicely but there is about a 1/8" gap all around the pipe. If the tub drain ever clogged, in theory that water would back up and then potentially go onto my floor under the tub (I am not terribly concerned about this since I waterproofed the floor using a Schluter floating floor membrane system - though if it floods bad enough the water would go out the bathroom door). I chose not to caulk the tub to the floor so I could remove the tub if needed to gain access to the drain. I also find that my drain work around solution is better than the flexible drain which would be more prone to clogs due to the corrugation/ribbing of the flex hose which is more prone to catching hair. If you ever had to snake the flex drain it would likely easily break. I feel at an advantage because I built and installed everything and know what the guts of the system are should there be a problem but had I hired this out or for the next buyer of my home who wouldn't know would be stuck with a steep and potentially expensive learning curve. As a side note I did call the vendor directly and they do not offer technical support and really didn't have any functional knowledge of plumbing. I did ask them to add information to their product page but I don't think this will happen.