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replace bathtub
I am looking at renovating my bathroom, and I would like to replace my
old bathtub with a deeper one. My house was built in the 70's and the tub has gyprock walls on 3 sides.I am relatively inexperienced diy'er.I have looked around and bathtubs are relatively inexpensive,but paying a contractor to install one seems to be very expensive.Can anyone explain the inns and outs of replaceing a bathtub. Thanks |
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wrote in message oups.com... I am looking at renovating my bathroom, and I would like to replace my old bathtub with a deeper one. My house was built in the 70's and the tub has gyprock walls on 3 sides.I am relatively inexperienced diy'er.I have looked around and bathtubs are relatively inexpensive,but paying a contractor to install one seems to be very expensive.Can anyone explain the inns and outs of replaceing a bathtub. Thanks Replacing a bathtub is major bitch. You need to remove the tiles and sheet rock around it. Sometimes you need to remove studs/walls, toilet, vanity and door just to get it out. I'm doing one now where I need to stand the tub up to get it out. Lucky its steel and not cast iron. |
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You can break up a cast iron tub and take it out in pieces.
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Jim Elbrecht wrote: On 28 Mar 2006 08:08:25 -0800, wrote: You can break up a cast iron tub and take it out in pieces. Just tried this last month. After about the third whack with my 20lb sledge my wife started hollering that the cans were falling off the shelves in th epantry downstairs. I looked at the tub & saw that I had just cracked the porcelain coating, but the iron was intact. I grabbed my reciprocating saw-- and a blade appropriately called 'The Torch' - and 3 blades and 20 minutes later, with no further damage to the house, I had 2 150lb pieces instead of 1 300 pounder. I had the same difficulty, but the trick with the sledge is to get the first crack in the cast iron. Once a crack appears, then the whole thing starts to crumble pretty quickly. I was not convinced at first that something that solid, and hard to cause the first crack, would break up that easily. |
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