scri8e
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This is a 10 unit apartment building.
5 units up 5 units down.
I have a turn over in #5 meaning the past tenant has moved out so I am doing some upgrades in between renters. This building was built in 1965. I am in Long Beach CA. The bathroom has a tub/shower combo with 3 handles. Hot and cold and tub to shower diverter. I am re-building the tub/shower surround as there is a window in the
tub/shower wall that has leaked. I found not only dry rot damage to the joists, but wetness inside of the wall around the window, additionally termites.
So I have ripped the walls all the way around the tub surround. While I'm into it this deep I figure I might as well change the 3 handle valve/faucets etc to a one handle moen config.
So I don't have the ole tenant cranks the water off too tight and ends the valve life short lived saga.
While I'm in the middle of this exploration and wall rip. The upstairs tenant in #10 takes a shower. No big deal. EXCEPT.... drain water starts coming out the over flow in #5 where I am working and also is coming out from under the tub where I am working. So I clean up the mess. Tell the upstairs tenant I have a problem with downstairs bathroom. Please hold off on showers/baths until I get it fixed. Hope to have it fixed by tomorrow will let you know.
I take off the over flow plate and the darn pipe that was I guess sorta attached to it falls off.
So my question/s are.... What do I need to change in the wall so far as to switch over from a 3 handle to a one handle. Because I think I can get at everything I need to by pulling the existing valve assembly to replace with the 1 handle valve assembly. Meaning get at the tub drain and the overflow pipes and such.
I do have an access panel on the outside wall of the building. Can't see much though. There is not a bathroom back to back in #4 just their bedroom wall. So only #10 upstairs is connected with #5's bathroom plumbing. I can go through the wall in #4's bedroom to get at the plumbing if I need to. Or I can pull the tub if that is what is needed?
Now is the time to do it once do it right.
Does anyone have/know of a diagram of the
plumbing for this switch over from a 3 to 1?
Thanks for you input.
5 units up 5 units down.
I have a turn over in #5 meaning the past tenant has moved out so I am doing some upgrades in between renters. This building was built in 1965. I am in Long Beach CA. The bathroom has a tub/shower combo with 3 handles. Hot and cold and tub to shower diverter. I am re-building the tub/shower surround as there is a window in the
tub/shower wall that has leaked. I found not only dry rot damage to the joists, but wetness inside of the wall around the window, additionally termites.
So I have ripped the walls all the way around the tub surround. While I'm into it this deep I figure I might as well change the 3 handle valve/faucets etc to a one handle moen config.
So I don't have the ole tenant cranks the water off too tight and ends the valve life short lived saga.
While I'm in the middle of this exploration and wall rip. The upstairs tenant in #10 takes a shower. No big deal. EXCEPT.... drain water starts coming out the over flow in #5 where I am working and also is coming out from under the tub where I am working. So I clean up the mess. Tell the upstairs tenant I have a problem with downstairs bathroom. Please hold off on showers/baths until I get it fixed. Hope to have it fixed by tomorrow will let you know.
I take off the over flow plate and the darn pipe that was I guess sorta attached to it falls off.
So my question/s are.... What do I need to change in the wall so far as to switch over from a 3 handle to a one handle. Because I think I can get at everything I need to by pulling the existing valve assembly to replace with the 1 handle valve assembly. Meaning get at the tub drain and the overflow pipes and such.
I do have an access panel on the outside wall of the building. Can't see much though. There is not a bathroom back to back in #4 just their bedroom wall. So only #10 upstairs is connected with #5's bathroom plumbing. I can go through the wall in #4's bedroom to get at the plumbing if I need to. Or I can pull the tub if that is what is needed?
Now is the time to do it once do it right.
Does anyone have/know of a diagram of the
plumbing for this switch over from a 3 to 1?
Thanks for you input.