RCraig
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Thanks for all the advice - in response to my previous post about a shifty tub that leaked into the basement when and only when someone took a shower.
The tub is out! Two observations relevant to the leak that it haunted me with:
1. The tub lies between the wall of the bathroom and the linen closet. Little did I realize it, but there actually was not properly enough length for a tub. The way the original builders of the house made it work was to cut chunks out of the beams of the walls. In other words, the wall at the front of the tub - the 2-by-4s or whatever those vertical pieces of wood are - had chunks cut out of them. The same at the back of the tub. These chunks cut out of the wood were the only way to get a standard size tub into the space between the wall and the linen closet.
2. The old tub had no front flange.
NEW QUESTIONS:
Now what to do?
Here are the possibilities as suggested to me by carpenter and plumber:
i. Move wall of linen closet over 3''. This would allow a standard size tub to fit between the 2 walls.
ii. Get a non-standard smaller sized tub which would properly fit in the space available.
Any thoughts or advice anyone might have would be very gratefully appreciated and probably heeded.
The tub is out! Two observations relevant to the leak that it haunted me with:
1. The tub lies between the wall of the bathroom and the linen closet. Little did I realize it, but there actually was not properly enough length for a tub. The way the original builders of the house made it work was to cut chunks out of the beams of the walls. In other words, the wall at the front of the tub - the 2-by-4s or whatever those vertical pieces of wood are - had chunks cut out of them. The same at the back of the tub. These chunks cut out of the wood were the only way to get a standard size tub into the space between the wall and the linen closet.
2. The old tub had no front flange.
NEW QUESTIONS:
Now what to do?
Here are the possibilities as suggested to me by carpenter and plumber:
i. Move wall of linen closet over 3''. This would allow a standard size tub to fit between the 2 walls.
ii. Get a non-standard smaller sized tub which would properly fit in the space available.
Any thoughts or advice anyone might have would be very gratefully appreciated and probably heeded.