jchance
Software Engineer
I am in the process of tearing out my shower and rebuilding it (the previous shower which was fairly new, someone had installed it with sheet rock inside the liner which got wet and rotted out).
I have successfully taken down everything (tile, sheet rock, liner, mortar bed, etc...) and am left with a slab cement floor with a shower drain sticking up. I was able to salvage the prior two piece shower drain (the type that squeezes the liner between the two pieces) but unfortunately, one of the bolts that clamps the upper piece to the lower piece is stripped and wont go in or out.
I'm a little hesitant about replacing the shower drain because I have no access to the plumbing from below and its a cement slab. If I had to, I guess I could cut the shower drain pipe from the inside and replace it, but I would hate to screw it up and then end up having to knock a hole in the slab to fix it.
So my first question is: Do you think I could salvage the old shower drain with only 3 of the 4 clamping bolts working properly?
Second question is much simpler. In my prep work for this project I have been reading up on installing the liner and everyone mentions testing the liner by blocking the drain and filling the liner up with water overnight. That sounds good, but how do you block the drain? One source said just to cover the top screen of the drain with tape, but what about the weep holes? Wouldn't the water escape through there? How else could I block the entire drain?
Thanks a lot!
I have successfully taken down everything (tile, sheet rock, liner, mortar bed, etc...) and am left with a slab cement floor with a shower drain sticking up. I was able to salvage the prior two piece shower drain (the type that squeezes the liner between the two pieces) but unfortunately, one of the bolts that clamps the upper piece to the lower piece is stripped and wont go in or out.
I'm a little hesitant about replacing the shower drain because I have no access to the plumbing from below and its a cement slab. If I had to, I guess I could cut the shower drain pipe from the inside and replace it, but I would hate to screw it up and then end up having to knock a hole in the slab to fix it.
So my first question is: Do you think I could salvage the old shower drain with only 3 of the 4 clamping bolts working properly?
Second question is much simpler. In my prep work for this project I have been reading up on installing the liner and everyone mentions testing the liner by blocking the drain and filling the liner up with water overnight. That sounds good, but how do you block the drain? One source said just to cover the top screen of the drain with tape, but what about the weep holes? Wouldn't the water escape through there? How else could I block the entire drain?
Thanks a lot!