Phil goes through and remodels, replaces the floor and raises the tub for a woman to be able to use a Hoyer lift. One of the best and most considerate install I have seen in 20yrs of health care.
No center support to try to get around.
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00:00 Intro
00:22 Goal is to move the tub so they can get a lift under it
00:53 We’re tearing things up
01:05 What does the laminate flooring hide??
01:30 One of the reasons I quit using peal and stick laminate
02:15 See this a lot with laminate flooring and houses getting flipped
02:30 We’re going to take all the particle board up and reinforce the floors
02:55 Thanks to the oscillating saw the tub surround is out
03:20 You can see where it was a garden tub under
03:58 Using tongue-and-groove plywood
04:10 Still want to reinforce with wood under, particularly because of the weight
04:25 How to tell where to put the screws
04:40 Still added all the supports under, never too much support
05:05 Jump cut-we put the linoleum but too many people
05:35 Rather NOT show how to do linoleum
05:50 We built a frame for the tub, need 5 and half inches clearance for the lift
06:00 Because of the weight we put studs on 6″ centers, stiffeners and we will put plywood on top of that
06:30 Coat’s on because he’s forgetful, lol
06:40 What we ran into with the plumbing
07:38 Tubs in on the frame
08:00 We always try to put in shut-offs when it comes to plumbing
08:20 He did the river dance on the platform to make sure it was steady. To bad that wasn’t videoed
08:30 Real short shower
08:50 We’ll put an inexpensive tub surround and cut it off
09:25 Another late day, but we’re finished
09:40 Plastic bead board to dress it up
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The just the goal here today is to move tub up so they can get a lift under it and then when we can lift the person out. So that means I have to rebuild the floor to handle the lift and put another floor for this to sit on, move all plumbing, change the tub surround. So we’re going to replace all this floor so it’ll be strong. We’ve got to add a lot of wood and we’ll make the place a lot better then it was.
Going along, basically, the funner part is tearing things up, I guess, particularly for a lot of other people. I would rather put things together, but anyway, we took up the laminate floor, which hides a lot of sins, but they noticed that there was a lot of soft areas and weird feeling places in here. So you can see that they did some patching here and it wasn’t high enough, so they added some paneling. It’s a laminate, overlayment, and then they put down peal and stick and that’s one of the reasons I quit using Peel Stick without putting additional glue trowel down, because eventually they will let it loose.
But they didn’t like that. So the people who are selling it put this over everything, which of course that area will. Being it had to have this is five eighths most likely of particle board. So that means, somebody put a half inch and then put some overlayment to bring it up. So it’s pretty weak.
But if you come over by the toilet. They patched up that area all that before they put the laminate floor over. That’s the kind of thing that I see a lot with the laminate floor, with houses getting flipped. Like all it’s just running over and the thickness of this floor will carry a lot of weight. But invariably whatever floor below it will give out. So we’re not going to do that.
We’re going to take all this particle board up and we’re going to put in real plywood flooring and it’s made for floors and we’re going to get rid of all that. We’re going to have a lot more two bys underneath. We’ll take pictures as we go along and video. So there you go, guys. We’re this far along and we’re still tearing things up.
Thanks to our good friend the ossilating saw, and a lot of elbow grease. We got the tub surround off and then took the upteen brad nails out and the screws out. And the regular nails out and got the plywood off that they put around. You can see where the floor has been covered up and used to be a garden tub. It actually says garden tub from the factory here but the floor…
“Is weak.”
It’s going to have to be fixed so. And we’ll have to raise this up, and have to raise the mechanical vent. It looks like we’ll have to reinforce that. Although I wouldn’t have done plastic rigid plastic fittings, but somebody decided that that would be a good idea.
But we’ll get all that straightened out and we’re going to raise this tub up after we fix the floor. There you go.
This a plywood we got tongue and groove made for flooring.
I still put wood underneath the edges for the most part, not always, but most times in this case for sure, because of all the weight. We use an inch and a half screws and I can see where the studs are so I don’t have to mark them, or where the floor joists were. And, that broke and I put the screws about every six inches on the outside.
The way I tell a lot of the guys, is like from the tip of your finger to the bottom of your wrist or in the field, say, from your wrist to your elbow.
So, mind you we still got all those supports underneath and too much. There’s no such thing, I guess. I guess you could put too many screws, but not likely anyway. That’s it, guys. See on the next one.
I’m going to say that we jump ahead sorta like they do on the you fix it yourself.
“Home repair.”
Home repair… Burrup, and now we’re in here. I had a lot of company at the time we were putting down the linoleum.
I would have showed you guys quite a bit a journey on how to you have to put it in with excess, get it straight, kick it by standing in the corner and kicking this side anyway, there’s a lot of work and perhaps that would be a whole other. I’d rather not even show anybody how to do linoleum. But anyway, it’s done this glued down because there’s going to be a big ol cart rolling on this.
I have my concerns as that we’re not in last. But then because of the concerns of having five and a half inches, we built a frame. Now you might wonder why this one sticking out more than that one. The drainpipe is going to drop down into that. Beings it’s going to be a lot of weight in water and in a person.
We put studs on six inch centers and then we just put stiffeners in there. We’re going to put plywood on top of that. So beings this is a job that hasn’t been done before by me. I’m saying this is going to be enough and I certainly hope it will be. And that’s.
Let me put my coat on because it got colder. I’m trying to look on because I forgot it here and now I’m going to make sure I carry it out with me anyway.
But I am standing with my 260 lbs on the platform, which will hold the tub and let the lift go underneath it. But in the process, we found out that there was no gasket on the bottom of the existing tub and the plumbing didn’t have any support. Which we, it’s now steadier, but the plumbing didn’t have enough supports. We’re going to fasten that and we’re going to change the length because we came up nine and a half inches of the down at the spout, the bathtub spout.
And we’re going to put two shut offs down here so that you can reach through. Found out that this column is one inch lower than this column, so we’re going to fix that. We found out the bottoms are thinner, then the tub so we’re going to fix that.
We’re going to change the face of this. So we’re having to do a lot. Which is normal, but this is how it’s going.
All right. We’ve come a long ways. Put the tub in. We had to reach in there, by the way, my arm got hung up. Hooked up the plumbing and the vent inside the wall, which meant lifting it up, putting that kind of piece and put it back in. And then the vent has to be in there. Also, we’ve also put in shut offs back in here and fastened to everything. And we find out what this was.
It’s a sprinkler, so it’s working. So, I’m not fixing things that ain’t broke.
We’ll put the plumbing back on the holes. Of course.
It’s quite coinvent, you can sit on. I was bouncing and doing river dance on to test. Nobody died and we’re talking about a real short shower. So if I was in here, it might, I might get a good nasal wash.
But for her, I mean, she could totally turn the neck up and then put the head up here, might still work, but particularly she can hook it up and then wash the tub out. We’re going to put an inexpensive tub surround, which you obviously want to cut off, or I’d be wiping up here and then we’ll put trim around it just to, uh make it look better.
And also, we’re going to put handrails over top of that, probably one right here, here and here. So that’s where we’re at. And we started the trim on the outside and we’re going to change the look with a bead board here. That’s it. See you in a little bit.
Another late day. And this is what we done. Handrails are into plywood. It’s going to be real strong so they can pull themselves in and out. The reason the tape there is the glue is still dry. So we’re hoping to get that finished up. But we dressed up the bead board here and here, this is plastic so it won’t rot, trim a better a better grade of trim. We can get real fancy with this kind of stuff, but it costs a lot more money.
So that’s what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to make it where they can get their lift under here where they can have ease to get in and out of the tub. And we put a handrail for the toliet also, all things that are making their life better. This is what you can do. Because we’re Americans not American’ts.