"Ebeneezer Geezer" wrote in message
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Maybe this is, but I do not know the answer to it.

In order to remove a bathtub to replace it, you have to undo the drain.
Now can you do that somehow from inside the tub, or do you have to go
through from the ceiling below it. How the heck do you get at the fittings
without doing that? The tub goes righ to the floor at t he front and there
is not enough room at the back to do anything....

???

Years ago, plumbing was easily accessed from a panel in the room next to the
bathroom. Usually a framed in door of some sort. However, if you are
building a $300,000 house today, you have to cut corners and not spend that
extra $20 in trim work so it is just sheetrocked over. It is probably
easiest to cut a hole in the wall and then frame it out with a simple
removable access panel.
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Ed
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