Ken Ferguson wants to take a bath … at your place.

The Toronto-based actor only has a stand up shower, you see, so he went in search of baths on Bunz Trading Zone, an online community and Facebook groupborn in Toronto in 2013, where users trade their belongings.

So far, Ferguson, 32, has taken some great baths: he was serenaded by a Bunz member, who strummed a ukulele from the toilet seat in exchange for tea; he washed wigs for a drag queen and was kept company by a 3-year-old Husky named Bowie.

Ferguson has been an active Bunz member since 2015 and has always had great experiences meeting new people through the platform.

“A lot of us are artists and don’t have a ton of money,” he said. “(Bunz) is a perfect outlet for us to bridge that gap and become a community.”

He came up with the #BathtubsofBunz idea about a year ago while on a Bunz trade — he exchanged a shelf for a home-cooked meal and admired the trader’s tub — and it became his 2017 resolution. He plans to have a bath at a Bunz members’ house every day this January.

His post about the bath trade racked up thousands of likes on Facebook, more than 200 comments and more bathtub offers than he could handle initially.

He’s doing it, quite simply, to spread a little joy.

“All this s--- with Trump and racist stuff, homophobia, xenophobia, all this bad news, celebrity deaths … I just wanted to do something that’s light hearted and make people laugh,” he said. “Weirdos are here to make people think, challenge the status quo (and) interrupt normal, passive thinking.

“I felt a need to embrace my weirdness so to allow people to do the same thing.”

In the early days of the project, Ferguson relied on friends to get the ball rolling “so people would know I’m not some creep who wants to come over and touch them or expose myself.”

He’s since moved on to Bunz acquaintances and total strangers including Paddy Jane, who invited him into her bath on Jan. 10.

In Jane’s basement apartment, the pair boiled water for tea, talked about interior decor and bonded over burlesque before running the bath. “I’m surprised we haven’t met before,” said Jane, who is a boudoir photographer and co-founded the No Pants Society, the group behind the No Pants Subway Ride, which took place this year on Jan. 8.

Jane offered Ferguson to bathe at her place trade-free because she thought his post was fun and good “Bunz karma.”

It wasn’t her first interview in a bathtub either: She once hopped in the tub with local artist Bathtub Bran, who has been inviting Toronto dancers to his bath for his YouTube show since 2011.

“I just love that people are taking care of each other,” said Jane. By the end of the bath, the pair was planning a possible burlesque collaboration.

Ferguson, who grew up “in a cornfield across from a dairy farm” near Stratford, Ont., discovered his love of baths in Japan between 2007 and 2009. While he was deeply influenced by the onsen (hot spring) culture, he hasn’t had a tub in his place since he moved to Toronto in 2011.

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Ferguson’s Bunz trade is practical but he stresses that it’s really quite personal, too.

“As a small-town person, I feel it’s important to meet new people and break down that barrier,” said Ferguson, wondering aloud what it might be like if Toronto politicians or celebrities — like John Tory or Olivia Chow — let him in for a soak. “Sometimes the support of other people is all you need.”

As for the rest of 2017, Ferguson is dreaming up “ways to generate community and feel at home in Toronto” with a different, silly shtick each month.

The baths, he says, was “a tester.”

“I think that, sometimes, people just need to be friendlier and nicer to each other, say hello, hold doors and stuff like that,” he said, recalling a time he gave a total stranger he found crying in the streets a hug. “I want to be able to do more fun things like that for the rest of the year.”

You can follow his adventures on Instagram @KennyFergy