Johnny-Canuck
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I'm starting a project to redo a 2nd floor bathroom in a very old house that had an old clawfoot tub with exposed water supply and drain pipe where the drain pipe connected to a trap under the floor.
I'm replacing this with a tub that will be installed in an alcove (i.e. I'll add a partition wall roughly where the old connections went into the floor).
I'm trying to understand how the connections to a tub that has an "above floor drain" look / need to be roughed in ... compared to a tub with a "below floor drain" look and that I understand / can picture. I was starting on the assumption that I'd simply be using a "below floor drain" tub, but the one I'm looking at will need to be a special order (4 week delivery). If I get an "above floor drain" model, I can have it within a couple of days.
Can someone possibly point me to any info / pictures of how the "above floor drain" connections look?
This is the Kohler Sterling tub model with the AFD (above floor drain) that I'm looking at -> http://www.sterlingplumbing.com/bat...-Drain-71121122-detail?productNumber=71121122 , but the info in the "Spec and Install" tab doesn't really show me what I'm trying to understand.
It makes a reference to the drain running into the wall ... would that logically be the partition wall that I'd be adding? Do I need to put blocking under the tub and make it sit physically higher to allow for the height of the trap?
Any advice / comments would be appreciated.
I'm replacing this with a tub that will be installed in an alcove (i.e. I'll add a partition wall roughly where the old connections went into the floor).
I'm trying to understand how the connections to a tub that has an "above floor drain" look / need to be roughed in ... compared to a tub with a "below floor drain" look and that I understand / can picture. I was starting on the assumption that I'd simply be using a "below floor drain" tub, but the one I'm looking at will need to be a special order (4 week delivery). If I get an "above floor drain" model, I can have it within a couple of days.
Can someone possibly point me to any info / pictures of how the "above floor drain" connections look?
This is the Kohler Sterling tub model with the AFD (above floor drain) that I'm looking at -> http://www.sterlingplumbing.com/bat...-Drain-71121122-detail?productNumber=71121122 , but the info in the "Spec and Install" tab doesn't really show me what I'm trying to understand.
It makes a reference to the drain running into the wall ... would that logically be the partition wall that I'd be adding? Do I need to put blocking under the tub and make it sit physically higher to allow for the height of the trap?
Any advice / comments would be appreciated.