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Bathroom Remodeling help
In article , PGG wrote:
Sigh... Also this is the only bathroom in the house. I figure I can take 3-4 days off to do this job and our inlaws live 0.5 miles away If you expect to be able to do a complete bathroom remodel in three or four days, you are in WAAAAAAY over your head. Best advice I can give you is that the handymen and/or plumbers you've had looking at this are idiots. Get somebody out to look at it who actually knows what he's doing. The faucet *can* be fixed (or replaced). You might have to remove the sink to do it - which probably means cutting out some of the tile above it - but it *can* be done. Remodeling the entire bathroom to fix a faucet is just insane. -- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com) Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time? |
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That is one odd-looking setup. It looks like an old institutional
sink. I would try everything before ripping it out, including contacting the maker of the faucet, and getting another plumber out to look. Ditto the timeframe to repair everything, it will take a couple weeks of trial and error and trips to the hardware store. If it turns out to be impossible to repair the faucet I suggest just removing the sink and getting a omdern one that takes modern fixtures, then fill in tile around it, whatever looks more or less OK, and let it go at that. Losing your only bathroom is really painful. |
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I don't know that this is the case but even though the sink may be
attached to the wall, the vanity may be supporting it. From the photo, that sink looks heavy. And I think removing the sink first would make it easier to remove the vanity. Just some random thoughts while someone else comes by with more... Obviously planning is key. Having all the stuff you need ahead of time will cut down the time that the room is unuseable. You could do some of the demolition yourself, in the evenings, while keeping the bathroom useable... pulling up the flooring, for example, and cleaning up the subfloor [if necessary] to get ready for the new floor. A note - If you build up the flooring too much the drainpipe your toilet connects to will be too short. You could pull out the vanity and brace the sink [if necessary]. I'm a little unclear on the ceramic tile. Are you going to rip it all out, or do you want to fill in the notch that'll be left after the sink is out [or do you want to bring the tile down, if necessary, to meet up with the new sink]? If you're going to rip it all out, do whatever is quick [without damaging any wiring or water lines]. Put off whatever you can, like the door moulding. You can do that later. The moulding looks like regular stock stuff, from what I can tell in the photo. If you haven't done drywall before then it probably is best left to a contractor. They're pretty quick, and getting that smooth flat surface can be a bear for a first-timer. |
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I completely lost track. I agree with whoever said the faucet was
fixable. At the most you replace the sink/faucet assembly. |
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"I completely lost track. I agree with whoever said the faucet was
fixable. At the most you replace the sink/faucet assembly." The OP pointed out that he's had a plumber in and the faucet is not repairable. To change the faucet requires removing this sink from a tiled wall that it's fastened to and it's unlikely that a replacement faucet is even available. And that style sink, which mates to the cabinet, is no longer made either. So, given the circumstances, I think he's on the right track. |
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This is a classic problem of a cheeep solution earlier leading to problems later. That sink is an instutituional sink (available by salvage, I'll bet), force-fitted into the bathroom to begin with. Did the OP have this put in? No, the OP has lived in this house for 18 months and is doing his best to properly correct many half-assed issues not known to him (or his home inspector) before purchasing this starter home. |
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This looks just like the sink in my parent's house and we have looked
long and hard for replacement faucets. This style is no longer made, your only hope for replacement is an antique plumbing fixture restorer. Try looking for a supplier on the Old House Journal website. I'd pull the sink off, replace it with a pedestal that hangs on the wall for a quick return to functionality and take care of the floor and wall patching as you have time and money. If you're ambitious, strip the wall and put up cement board before installing the sink. You can tile at your leisure, it's easy to move the pedestal to fix the floor. Roger Doug Miller wrote: In article , PGG wrote: Sigh... Also this is the only bathroom in the house. I figure I can take 3-4 days off to do this job and our inlaws live 0.5 miles away If you expect to be able to do a complete bathroom remodel in three or four days, you are in WAAAAAAY over your head. Best advice I can give you is that the handymen and/or plumbers you've had looking at this are idiots. Get somebody out to look at it who actually knows what he's doing. The faucet *can* be fixed (or replaced). You might have to remove the sink to do it - which probably means cutting out some of the tile above it - but it *can* be done. Remodeling the entire bathroom to fix a faucet is just insane. -- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com) Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time? |
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