How to Install a Fiberglass Tub and Surround | Ask This Old House
This Old House plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey updates a bath. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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What I want to know is how they got a one piece shower surround through an interior door
This is sooo not real. Lots of editing, and it's fine to attach the bath drain before setting the tub, but then how are you going to connect it once the tub is laid down, and why wasn't that shown ?? This video can give a lot of beginner DIYers a false sense of security.
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Skipped leveling the tub? No shims to stop flange from cracking? This is dangerously over simplified.
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… Videos like this are too simplified. To have a proper high quality install there can be so many details that if not done correctly there will be trouble down the road when they are long gone.
– Bedding under the tub? Many ways to do it right and just as many ways to do it wrong.
_ Ledger boards- level and in the correct location. 1/4" too high or too low will make a difference.
– No pipe dope on the drain threads underneath?
– NO plumbers putty on the acrylic tubs, use 100% silicone.
– etc.
I used to respect this show and these guys.
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They just did the easy part. The taping and painting is the real chore. Fernando! Donde estas¿
You guys seem to know what your doing. Too bad you didnt explain the construction of the wall to accept and how to measure fir the spout.
When I install my shower head I like to see a bunch of Teflon exposed. It helps accent the Chrome
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