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Posted by BobK207 on October 13, 2006, 11:12 am
roger61611@yahoo.com wrote:
> Well...the downstairs bathroom of this house I bought 18 months ago is
> very small and outdated and always smelled musty, so, wanting to expand
> it a few feet anyway, I gutted it with the idea of modernizing it and
> redoing the tile, etc. Pretty normal stuff. House is on a slab, btw.
>
> Upon taking apart the builtin cabinet thing, I found a hole in the slab
> [about 1 ft x 1 ft] had been cut for the bathtub plumbing and drain to
> run through. [Not sure why a hole is needed, maybe that's normal ?]
> The toilet and sink are on the opposite wall, a distance of 6 feet.
> The waste stack is right by the toilet of course. So on one wall I
> have a tub with water supply and 2" drain. On the other wall, a sink
> and toilet with another water supply for them, and the drain for them
> is the main stack.
>
> Looking in the hole in the slab I noticed that the drain coming from
> the tub does not meet up with the pipe it's supposed to connect to.
> There's a gap of a few inches. This means of course that the tub
> drains into the ground under the slab. No telling how long that's been
> going on, but the tail of the pipe coming from the tub drain is heavily
> rusted.
>
> What are my options ? The only one I see is to [have a plumber] cut a
> path into the slab from the bathtub over to the stack and connect the
> bathtub into the main stack. This would surely cost a bit. I could
> move the tub over to the other wall but of course, unlike the sink, the
> tub drain is below grade.
Why not just enlarge the hole enough to get back to sound pipe &
install a repair section of pipe with No-Hub rubber / stainless clamp
connectors?
Of course if the tub pipe is rusted away to nothing, you're in deep
do-do. But as you cut back further from the pipe end the rust should
abate & you should get to sound pipe.
No need to tear up the whole installaion unless you really want to
re-config the bathroom.
cheers
Bob
Your plan would work
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