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Plumbing in the Home - remove&install newshower

Expert: Anthony - The Plumber - 11/6/2009

Question
i have a shower now 32x32 with the drain 15.5 from the wall, i would like to replace it with a new neo angle shower stall but the drain is 12-1/4 from the wall on the new shower,is there away to keep my subfloor from looking like swiss cheese due to the drain positions and if not how would you fill in the old drain hole in the subfloor. thanks.

Answer
Dave,

There is no doubt you will have to move the p-trap to accommodate the new drain position.

To fix the subfloor, it depends upon whether it is wood or concrete.

Clearly, concrete is easy to repair this by pouring fresh concrete.

However, for a wood sub-floor, I would place a 1/2 inch piece of plywood over
the entire base so you can continue to waterproof the base and rebuild the shower.

Let me know what happens.

Hope this helps.

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Anthony

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