Updated 2-18-23
Phil walks you through removing a tub and tub surround. The tub surround is usually just glued up there, easy to pull down once you have the trim off. Please be careful, the trim will cut you.
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00:00 Intro
00:11 Why we need to replace the tub
00:30 Expect to find that the floor under the tub will be rotted from a leak
01:00 Taking the tub apart, want to keep the trim
01:30 Watch the trim because it can easily cut you
01:45 Tub surround is usually just glued up there.
01:55 Back after removing the surround
02:20 Watch when you pull the ring off you want to pop the clips out
02:40 Once you have the knob out you can put the screw inside so you don’t lose it
02:55 Downspout-how to keep from messing up the chrome.
03:23 You don’t want to score up the drain, $15-20 costs and the time to go get it
04:25 Next we’re going to pull the screws out of the tub, and trim around
05:10 Now we need to take out the drain, using a dumbell
05:55 How they plan to get the tub out
06:08 A bit strange what you can find under these tubs
07:15 When you have a crack in your tub it’s because…
07:31 New tub from Lowe’s
07:58 The legs are adjustable
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This is another tub that needs to be replaced because it cracks in it. And hey, you’re back with me. Good to have you with me. This is another tub that needs to be replaced because that cracks in it. And uh, we want to replace the tub surround also. You can see where they patched it, but a the patches held for a while because they didn’t use it. They had a grandson that weighted 200 lbs or something, which is nothing. I’m 260 now.
So I think what we’ll find when we take this apart is that something leaked caused the areas that is supposed to be supported by Styrofoam and then floor those areas. That floor is going to be rotted or damaged by something. And we’ll see. So what we’re going to do is start taking all this apart, will take the covers off of the trim and set that aside, but we’re going to try to keep this trim here.
It’s going to be very hard not to break it but generally we can pull this off if you guys are doing this with your own stuff, please be careful because this stuff is cut me before. And I have tough hands. So be careful because it will cut you. So what we’re going to do is we’ll, we’ll do these things.
Taking off the tub surround. We’ll show you that after we’re done it, because it’s nothing special to learn there. Just be careful not to cut your hands. And it’s glued on. So it’ll be lots of fun. All right. So we’ve took this off and all the pieces and very carefully, you won’t want to, in this case, I actually pulled the trim loose.
So we didn’t break the trim. It’s got a wallpaper border on it. I didn’t want to move that trim so as to tear up the boarder on it. We could, but I didn’t want to.
One of the things I didn’t tell you guys and I was tellling Clay along the way whenever you go to pull that decrative ring off, you got to remember the inside that knob is a clip. In the middle of that is a clip to cover a screw that holds in right there. So you want to pop that out with something sharp and pop that ring out that little cover over and then pull the screw out.
And what I normally do is take that knob, put that screw inside. So in this case, you actually went and got it. So it’s sitting inside there so that it won’t go anywhere. And then I put the screws where I can find them.
When it comes to the downspout here. Uh, channel locks, although they do make channel locks that have real smooth right here so they don’t scar up really pretty chrome. So when you go to grab that, if it’s real tight, would you mind? Is wrap a rag around it and then use your channel locks, to get, once you get it started, you can back it off.
So you may have to do that. Just be careful. Don’t score up your own drain because you have to buy another drain that. So the 15, $20 plus the time to go get it. So now, what this used to, this is the original tub and this is the original surround from the factory and they grew it onto it, which is fine and they’ve actually put wallpaper on the original trim was metal or may not have been plastic but most likely metal, some where in there they transition to plastic to save money.
And if you see that ring that edge right there that was with that metal covered and it had screws that held it covered over the edge and then you caulked the top of it that constantly caulked. Usually collected a lot there just like this would if it was on its own. But it looked better than having the screws hold the tub exposed.
But then they took that off and they put the tubs around right over the top of it instead of relying on this. So what we’re going to do next is pull the screws out that hold it. They put Phillip’s screws in certain places, and then we’ll pull this cover off and probably pull the trim here, here and over here so we don’t break that and then I’ll get with you there and what we’re doing next.
Hey. So we took off screws loose. We pulled this little fake wall and there’s a scratch wallpaper a little bit. Not much I could do. Like reuse the wall after pulling the shag carpet off, which she has requested to take that off and put something else the next would be to take out the drain. A lot of times you can only get under there and reach up there and hold the nut.
Then you have a little tool like this, which is what they call a dumbbell, as I recall, as two different sides. This one’s actually gotten broke. It’s been with me a long time. One, and it sticks down in that crosshatch of the drain and you stick it in there and then you notice a hole right here. You can put a screwdriver in there and then you can literally turn it, or you can grab a pair of another pair of channel locks and try to turn it to a screwdriver, will hold it if they can get a pair of channel locks and turn. A lot of times, there’s no room under there to do that. In this case, we were able to reach in there and twist it without actually having any issue with the drain moving. So now we’re going to lift up the the other side from the drain up the wall to stand up on it’s end and carry outside Okay.
This is a little strange. It had a wood frame to hold, and they were counting on this particle board that was fiberglassed in, to give it support Part of the problem was because this drain, which happens, leaked, the moisture got to all that particle board around it and it and then that caused that area to break. And then the other was where.
That corner there is. You notice this area here is not supported and this all got rotted. This particle board and then this area here didn’t have anything there anymore. Because all this here got rotted out by particle board. So the support, even though it’s elevated, the support was rotted and didn’t work out. So again, when you have a crack in your tub, that’s because the support underneath it has given out whatever design.
This is what I haven’t seen before and I’ve been around it for 30 something years, seeing-taking these things apart.
Okay. So she ordered this one from Lowe’s and looks like we have to pull a little piece of rubber off there and it has this can support itself. So it’s nowhere near the same issues they are all this would, would never even if the floor gave out.
It would never be an issue for this. These legs are adjustable need just an up and down. So it’ll be a tight fit it’s 30 wide 54 long with a right hand. So now we’re going to do the hard part get it in there and put it in place.