Need Advice on a complete Shower overhaul
Hi all, I just liked to say first off that this forum is awesome. I have (with no prior knowledge) replaced black iron pipe (and troubleshot a months long LP issue), my water heater, my furnace, my t...
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Per Pappy's request I am reporting back on my shower overhaul. So this job was a pain in the REAR. But, I learned that EVERY job on my rig is a ridiculous pain simply due to the age of my rig. So I went ahead and got a new shower pan without a seat.
The idea of actually having room to move around in the shower was just too enticing. My issues started the moment I opened the box of the new pan. In the past when I have looked at the pans the drain was at the front, center of the pan. This was on the side, center of the pan. Massive, massive problem.
The box for the P-trap was going to have to be completely moved. So I procrastinated a week and then finally went back at it. Cut a new hole in the floor where the new P-trap would be...
Only to discover that the metal frame of the trailer itself was directly under where the new P-trap would go. I was not cutting through it.
A couple days later of messing around, brainstorming, trying different things it occurred to me to turn the P-trap sideways, and bam. Problem solved.
Working with the ABS and moving the vent was just fun and easy. ABS cement gets everywhere if you aren't careful...
Another problem I ran into was that when I pulled the old tub out the vinyl paneling that makes up the shower walls only went half way down. The old shower was 36in high. The new one was less than half that. So I bought this vinyl sheeting I don't even honestly know whats its for normally it just worked for my purposes.
Here's where I started to suck. By this point I've three weeks into this project, had all the issues already and just wanted to be done. I should have done a much better job of cutting the walls. Alas I did not so they are in but not very pretty. The pan doesn't sit right into the slot because of moving the P-trap so there are gaps around the edges. I completely enclosed the shower with curtains to solve this problem.
I'm not sure I will post pics because it is not very pretty. I don't need pretty though I needed function. I just took my first shower in the new setup and oh my is it soo much better. Thanks for the advice and tips.
The idea of actually having room to move around in the shower was just too enticing. My issues started the moment I opened the box of the new pan. In the past when I have looked at the pans the drain was at the front, center of the pan. This was on the side, center of the pan. Massive, massive problem.
The box for the P-trap was going to have to be completely moved. So I procrastinated a week and then finally went back at it. Cut a new hole in the floor where the new P-trap would be...
Only to discover that the metal frame of the trailer itself was directly under where the new P-trap would go. I was not cutting through it.
A couple days later of messing around, brainstorming, trying different things it occurred to me to turn the P-trap sideways, and bam. Problem solved.
Working with the ABS and moving the vent was just fun and easy. ABS cement gets everywhere if you aren't careful...
Another problem I ran into was that when I pulled the old tub out the vinyl paneling that makes up the shower walls only went half way down. The old shower was 36in high. The new one was less than half that. So I bought this vinyl sheeting I don't even honestly know whats its for normally it just worked for my purposes.
Here's where I started to suck. By this point I've three weeks into this project, had all the issues already and just wanted to be done. I should have done a much better job of cutting the walls. Alas I did not so they are in but not very pretty. The pan doesn't sit right into the slot because of moving the P-trap so there are gaps around the edges. I completely enclosed the shower with curtains to solve this problem.
I'm not sure I will post pics because it is not very pretty. I don't need pretty though I needed function. I just took my first shower in the new setup and oh my is it soo much better. Thanks for the advice and tips.
