FakeGamerGirl
New Member
Hello! We bought a flipped house as our first home (yeah we're geniuses) and the tub started peeling pretty quick. We bought a replacement tub that would fit in the space but didn't account for this new tub having an overflow opening when the old one didn't.
We also didn't anticipate the trap being situated how it is.
We also didn't anticipate that pretty much nobody will do work on mobile homes, plumbing, electrical, or otherwise..
So here I am, a very frustrated, desperate mother on a very tight budget, trying to DIY something it seems most experienced plumbers don't even want to touch.
(You wouldn't believe the problems I've had to get past just to reach *this* problem, we thought about starting a YouTube channel just for people to witness this struggle..)
1. The tub clearly needs to be raised, but we aren't sure how high
2. This p trap is located above the floor, so companies aren't willing to help us unless we pay an obscene amount for them to move the entire thing down a few inches
3. The tub has an opening cut for an overflow drain, but we aren't even sure if a drain *of any kind* is currently possible
So here's the question:
How can we get this tub installed and functional without going over a budget of $600?
We paid $75 just for Rotorooter to quote us $4500. We can't pay more people to come out just to give us more unrealistic quotes. We also paid several companies that arrived just to tell us they don't install already purchased bathtubs or they don't work on mobile homes. We would like to DIY but we are really stuck on the how. I have put so much into just getting the old tub and surround out.
Any advice, shared knowledge, suggestions, etc. on how we can do this will be welcomed/celebrated beyond belief.
Think of me as a very clumsy Matt Damon stranded on Mars and you're my NASA. Please, please help me!
We also didn't anticipate the trap being situated how it is.
We also didn't anticipate that pretty much nobody will do work on mobile homes, plumbing, electrical, or otherwise..
So here I am, a very frustrated, desperate mother on a very tight budget, trying to DIY something it seems most experienced plumbers don't even want to touch.
(You wouldn't believe the problems I've had to get past just to reach *this* problem, we thought about starting a YouTube channel just for people to witness this struggle..)
1. The tub clearly needs to be raised, but we aren't sure how high
2. This p trap is located above the floor, so companies aren't willing to help us unless we pay an obscene amount for them to move the entire thing down a few inches
3. The tub has an opening cut for an overflow drain, but we aren't even sure if a drain *of any kind* is currently possible
So here's the question:
How can we get this tub installed and functional without going over a budget of $600?
We paid $75 just for Rotorooter to quote us $4500. We can't pay more people to come out just to give us more unrealistic quotes. We also paid several companies that arrived just to tell us they don't install already purchased bathtubs or they don't work on mobile homes. We would like to DIY but we are really stuck on the how. I have put so much into just getting the old tub and surround out.
Any advice, shared knowledge, suggestions, etc. on how we can do this will be welcomed/celebrated beyond belief.
Think of me as a very clumsy Matt Damon stranded on Mars and you're my NASA. Please, please help me!