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Plumbing and Subfloor Preparation

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Smallest Basement Shower Remodel

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What happens here

After the fiberglass is removed, the area around the shower drain is exposed. The worker removes concrete and debris to access the plumbing for the drain and ensure it's properly positioned for the new shower pan. He inspects the existing plumbing, noting copper and PEX lines, and identifies a 2x4 stud that is overlapping the corner by half an inch, which would prevent straight walls for tiling. This stud needs to be cut off and re-secured to the inside face of the adjacent stud to allow for proper drywall and tile installation.

Goal: The shower drain area in the concrete subfloor is cleared, and the plumbing is inspected and modified. This includes clearing debris and adjusting a misplaced 2x4 stud to ensure straight walls for tiling.

Tools and materials

  • Drill
  • Hammer
  • Saw (e.g
  • reciprocating saw or circular saw)
  • Trowel/Chisel
  • Quikrete Quick-Setting Cement Quikrete

What they say

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probably thinking hey dummy why are you using a knife on this well you know you guys always tell me oh be nice if i had all those tools well you know what i'm going all primal on you guys i want to move this to be a shower curtain rain right here i'm going to cut this out and then cut into here and that will tell me if i have room above for the water line these are kind of like the dugouts that they have for the plumbing to come in when they built the house we got to make sure that we isolate just to be a circle this big for the tube the drain pipe to come up that means we have to dig this dirt out put concrete fill it in and just put a little collar around it make it work now we're doing a schluter system they have two connections one if you can get underneath the foundation or one if you cannot obviously concrete we cannot so i'm gonna put a collar over that to protect the pipe i'll put quick post concrete in there put water on top let it settle and then flatten it out then we can put our schluter on top [Music]

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