In a complete bathroom rebuild, my bath has just been replaced in its old spot (well, the new shower enclosure is 30cm wider so it is 30cm to one side of its old spot). They have put the bath's feet on bricks so they could attach the waste - so the whole is now at least 7cm higher than it used to be. The top of the bath is about 600mm above the concrete floor. The builder and plumber just say it has to be like this, to get the fall on the pipe. I wish they had mentioned before they fitted it that it would be so much higher.
This looks high to me. Advice online says 510mm plus or minus 10mm. I can see their problem but I don't want to spend the next 20 years clambering in and out of an excessively high bath.
Fixing it isn't easy but we just want back roughly we had. The plumber says the fall was wrong before (it worked fine) and he has put it back at the height it should be. There's not much flexibility as it is a concrete floor. The pipes track about 11 feet round the bathroom with a gentle slope, before crossing the landing buried in concrete and joining a downpipe outside.
Is there any solution? All I can think of is to cut into the concrete just before the pipe joins the buried waste out of the room so it can join a bit lower (2in may be possible) and we can achieve a greater drop along the run from the bath to that junction of the waste. We have two pipes tracking round, the shower and the bath, shower one above the bath one, so perhaps they could be connected, but that wouldn't increase the fall.
This looks high to me. Advice online says 510mm plus or minus 10mm. I can see their problem but I don't want to spend the next 20 years clambering in and out of an excessively high bath.
Fixing it isn't easy but we just want back roughly we had. The plumber says the fall was wrong before (it worked fine) and he has put it back at the height it should be. There's not much flexibility as it is a concrete floor. The pipes track about 11 feet round the bathroom with a gentle slope, before crossing the landing buried in concrete and joining a downpipe outside.
Is there any solution? All I can think of is to cut into the concrete just before the pipe joins the buried waste out of the room so it can join a bit lower (2in may be possible) and we can achieve a greater drop along the run from the bath to that junction of the waste. We have two pipes tracking round, the shower and the bath, shower one above the bath one, so perhaps they could be connected, but that wouldn't increase the fall.
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