Patent ID: 6996860

Claim:
A construction protective covering for a bathtub, said covering comprising: a light-weight, multi-layer, disposable, size adjustable protective covering having at least two layers of materials bonded together to form a strong covering, said protective covering being sized to cover a bathtub having a bathtub recess and a front face, and wherein said at least two layers of materials bonded together have a collective thickness of from 1″ to about 5″ thick, and wherein said protective covering is adapted to be custom cut on-site easily for post-forming the covering to any specific particular size and configuration of the bathtub being covered, and wherein each of the at least two bonded layers includes a double skinned sheet material made of a corrugated material selected from the group consisting of corrugated cardboard, corrugated paper and corrugated plastic, including polypropylene and polyethylene, wherein one of the at least two layers is a rigid sheet material constructed in a honeycomb configuration having an individual cell size of between about ¼″ to about 1″ and is from about 1″ to about 5″ thick, and wherein another of the at least two layers is made of a protective double skinned material being selected from the group consisting of corrugated cardboard, corrugated paper, corrugated plastic, and foamed skin materials; an apron attached to said protective covering to protect the front face of the bathtub; and said multi-layer protective covering being capable of holding the weight of a heavy construction worker, such that when the construction worker stands on the protective covering over the bathtub to do more work, the worker will be supported by the protective covering so that the worker can work without having to be careful of the delicate finish, whereby damage due to dropped tools and construction workers working in the vicinity of the installed components is minimized.