Tub Drain Solution?

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I could use your help with options for installing the drain on a freestanding tub.

The install is on a concrete slab, so what I have leftover from the previous tub is a square hole in the slab, dirt below, and the old P-Trap in the hole.

My concern is that the install instructions ask you to glue the final 1 1/2” FPT to Slip adapter which will then be inaccessible forever! You would never be able to perform any maintenance on the plumbing or fix a possible leak. Even Jacuzzi told me that the only way to get at the plumbing would be to destroy the $2-3k tub, or come up through the ceiling below, which doesn’t apply.

This can’t possibly be the only option.

The drain and integrated overflow channel meet and then go straight down into the P-Trap [see illustration]
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Are there any products on the market that act more like a lav sink, where the drain pipe just gets inserted into the trap and could be pulled out if needed?
 
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Sounds like you need to plan for an access panel at that end of the tub.
 

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I would guess that the drain on the tub can use a 1.5" slip joint nut and washer to a flanged tailpiece.
Then that would drop down into the receptor at the floor level.
To remove later, you would lift the tub straight up and out.
 
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