Hi,
My wife and I are renovating our spare bathroom and demoing part of the walls where the old tub/shower was.
This is the wall that the old tub/shower valve was on. One stud is burned really bad from someone trying to solder there and there is an electrical wire running through the wall to a couple of outlets on the other side of the wall.
Old tub/shower valve area
The other side of the shower is a potential location to reroute everything but I'm confused about how to move things around to make it work. This wall is a 2x6 wall with the master bathroom on the other side of the wall.
New valve location
I planned to cut the stud to the right of the PVC pipe. Add a horizontal brace above the PVC pipe and put a vertical brace closer to the PVC down to the bottom plate. This would give me a couple of extra inches of clearance to mount the new mixing valve.
My issue isn't the PVC, it is the stud that is the issue on either wall. The centerline of the new valve is 14.5" from the outside wall and it needs 2" on each side of the centerline which puts it right on the stud.
My question is how would y'all handle this situation?
My wife and I are renovating our spare bathroom and demoing part of the walls where the old tub/shower was.
This is the wall that the old tub/shower valve was on. One stud is burned really bad from someone trying to solder there and there is an electrical wire running through the wall to a couple of outlets on the other side of the wall.
Old tub/shower valve area
The other side of the shower is a potential location to reroute everything but I'm confused about how to move things around to make it work. This wall is a 2x6 wall with the master bathroom on the other side of the wall.
New valve location
I planned to cut the stud to the right of the PVC pipe. Add a horizontal brace above the PVC pipe and put a vertical brace closer to the PVC down to the bottom plate. This would give me a couple of extra inches of clearance to mount the new mixing valve.
My issue isn't the PVC, it is the stud that is the issue on either wall. The centerline of the new valve is 14.5" from the outside wall and it needs 2" on each side of the centerline which puts it right on the stud.
My question is how would y'all handle this situation?
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