dbpropp
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We're having a house built which includes a roman tub. The builder (Shea Homes) offers very few choices of faucet upgrades and finishes, none of which are what we want. We also want a hand-shower, which none of their options include. Shea is very inflexible and will not install any faucet that they don't sell... not even if we purchase one that would require no change in their installation procedures.
The only way we can get the faucet we want is to have Shea install their standard roman tub faucet and then change it later. Unfortunately, the tub will be mounted in a tiled tub surround / tub deck. It is against an external wall and mounted on a solid floor, with a tile/glass shower on one end and the water closet wall at the other end.
Does anyone have any experience or suggestions about this? Would it be possible / difficult to knock out one piece of tile (12") and cut the plywood behind it to get access, then after the installation repair the plywood and install a new tile? Is there another or better way to do this, without pulling out the tub? And is it possible to drill a hole in the tile & plywood for the hand-shower?
Any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated!
(And if anyone from Shea Homes reads this, please consider being more flexible with customers who are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars with your company!)
The only way we can get the faucet we want is to have Shea install their standard roman tub faucet and then change it later. Unfortunately, the tub will be mounted in a tiled tub surround / tub deck. It is against an external wall and mounted on a solid floor, with a tile/glass shower on one end and the water closet wall at the other end.
Does anyone have any experience or suggestions about this? Would it be possible / difficult to knock out one piece of tile (12") and cut the plywood behind it to get access, then after the installation repair the plywood and install a new tile? Is there another or better way to do this, without pulling out the tub? And is it possible to drill a hole in the tile & plywood for the hand-shower?
Any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated!
(And if anyone from Shea Homes reads this, please consider being more flexible with customers who are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars with your company!)
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