On Mar 15, 1:30*pm, aemeijers wrote:
TomYoung wrote:
I know the sledgehammer routine for removing tubs is the standard
answer but I'd like to remove this one intact.

I've got the bathroom down to studs, I've got the bathtub off the
floor and face down on a 4-wheel dolly. *The bathroom is exactly 5'
wide its entire length and there's just not enough room to swing the
tub so I can shove it through the door.

It seems like the answer - short of removing wall studs - is to put
the tub back down on the floor, bottom down, and then tip the tub to
vertical, followed by tipping it back down face forward onto the
dolly.

Or is there some other way of doing this?

TIA

Tom Young

Tub is under the window, huh?
Answer is 'it depends'. I think you are on the right track. Sometimes
the best thing to do is stand the tub on end, and walk it out of the
room like a refrigerator, or use a refrig dolly to move it from the face
side. Not seeing how the pads and braces under the tub, and the wall
studs, are laid out, I can't suggest how to rotate it in multiple
dimensions at once to english it out of there. In a tiny bath like that,
dollies are not always an option- sometimes 3 big guys and a lot of
grunting is the only answer. That is why contractor usually says
'sledgehammer and replace'.
Tub usually goes in first, and bathroom is built around it. Are you
saving to reuse in same spot, or elsewhere? Or do you need to rebuild
the floor frame and decking under it?

Don't give up- old iron tubs, if the porcelain is good, are worth
saving. They beat the heck out of all but the high-end special-order
modern tubs.

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Instead of a dolly put down a piece of carpet or a tarp anf drag it
out on that.

This works really well if you put down plastic first. Maybe even
easier than a dolly.

Jimmie