Sanity check on removing hard shower pan
https://preview.redd.it/gwzulvpuj7ke1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67eaac44bdef29fbc02b55a278be3cccd1913a16 https://preview.redd.it/7gswzc0yj7ke1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=033b280ee75a3258005c866288dfc9096d5f6c74 https://preview.redd.it/flnhbbrzj7ke1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee926760107e988b378dd3ecbfc273f50b06dcd0 https://preview.redd.it/w0e0abi4k7ke1.jpg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f5ddc1a90d9b5626766f553c1d03e9c90f4000d I have been taking a shower in our main floor bathroom back to the studs, after the shower pan leaked into my office below ( fortunately I was in the office at the time to minimize the damage ) The next stage is to remove the hard shower pan, my intention being to replace all of this with Kerdi board, 36x36 tray and curb. That stage is some way off. My sanity check is, I have access to the drain from below, and I can wiggle the shower pan in place, my intention is to cut the drain off from below first, and then see if I can lift the pan out, rather than having to break it out in little chunks. So is it normal in this case to just cut off the drain and plumb back to it later? I don't see the value in trying to preserve the upper part of the drain up into the pan, I would have to break up the pan and likely destroy the drain upper anyway. For all the videos I can find on youtube, they seem to be almost entirely hard pan removal from a slab floor, I haven't found anything that shows best practice when removing a pan from a wooden subfloor, with respect to the drain. Greatly appreciate any advice here, I feel half silly asking, but also would much rather sanity check if there is a "normal" way to do this. submitted by /u/big_red_frog [link] [comments]
| | I have been taking a shower in our main floor bathroom back to the studs, after the shower pan leaked into my office below ( fortunately I was in the office at the time to minimize the damage ) The next stage is to remove the hard shower pan, my intention being to replace all of this with Kerdi board, 36x36 tray and curb. That stage is some way off. My sanity check is, I have access to the drain from below, and I can wiggle the shower pan in place, my intention is to cut the drain off from below first, and then see if I can lift the pan out, rather than having to break it out in little chunks. So is it normal in this case to just cut off the drain and plumb back to it later? I don't see the value in trying to preserve the upper part of the drain up into the pan, I would have to break up the pan and likely destroy the drain upper anyway. For all the videos I can find on youtube, they seem to be almost entirely hard pan removal from a slab floor, I haven't found anything that shows best practice when removing a pan from a wooden subfloor, with respect to the drain. Greatly appreciate any advice here, I feel half silly asking, but also would much rather sanity check if there is a "normal" way to do this. [link] [comments] |
