The bathtub is level. Floor is not. What about the gap?
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Comments (12)Good morning guys, Eric is right, John, the tub is not yet installed. We were about to do it, yesterday, when this new snafu came to light. And Eric, thank you for your encouragement. Yes, this project has proven quite exciting so far... and needlessly costly. At this point, I don't know if I should cry or just sit down and write a book! The GC showed up at our house yesterday afternoon after I threatened to sue him. He still has not brought in all that I have already paid for, and when I told him about the 3" gap, his jaw just dropped. While I was busy with the plumbers and the electricians, he went and fitted two small pieces of plywood over the floor in the podium to try and raise the floor to meet the footing of the bath. He cut those pieces no bigger than the footing of the bath. Not only are they not high enough, but such short pieces will prevent the weight of the tub to distribute evenly over the whole floor. Me thinks, anyhow. Anywhooo... John, this bathtub does not come with little adjusting legs. It is pre-leveled on a board which is meant to lie flat on a levelled floor. I'm adding a picture for you to see better. What I am thinking of doing is making a few blotches, or mounds, of mortar and squish the bath in place. I'm thinking little mounds will be easier to squish into than a large solid surface, plus I don't want to add too much extra weight. We've had all our floor joists doubled but this is an old house and it needs to be treated gently... Eric, the reason I hesitate to fill the gap with lumber is that I won't be able to shim level the bath on all four side once it is dropped in place because the corner it sits in is on exterior walls. Perhaps a combination of the two methods would work well. One thing is for sure, my GC is now toast and this project has now officially been downgraded (some, including me right now, would say upgraded) to a DIY project. Oh well, it's only money, right.... Sniff, sniff.... ;-( Here is a link that might be useful: 3...See MoreGap between tub & floor tile - what to do?
Comments (14)Well, there is no way they are putting a pIece of vinyl base -I'm picturing a wide strip of ugly stuff like they use in commercial locations between the rug and the wall - maybe you are thinking of something else. What about a well primed and painted piece of wooden quarter round or other nice looking trim? Could we caulk the seam and then apply the trim and then caulk the edges of the trim between the tub and floor? I took a couple of pictures and I don't think the gap is quite as wide as in Bill's pic of the motel....See Moreinstalling a one piece bath tub
Comments (3)Our acrylic fiberglass tub was going to have ceramic tile around and under the top lip. This is how we installed the whole unit. We built a 2x frame with a level plywood top that had a cutout to receive the tub. The height of the plywood top allowed for 1" of tile/thinset/backerboard under the top lip and held the bottom of the tub about 1" off the floor (for mortar underneath). We mixed up mortar, dumped it on the floor below the tub and set the tub in place WITH 1" SHIMS UNDER THE TOP LIP. Then we let the mortar set up overnight. The 1" shims were removed, backerboard installed around the tub, and tile installed under the lip of the tub. Hope this helps....See MoreWhat would you do for gap between tub and floor tile?
Comments (7)I found out that there is a gap between the tile and tub that would be too big for caulk. It's one of those things where in the grand scheme of things, it isn't worth a battle - especially since the way the designer laid out the tiles in the design there would have been a gap ... plus the designer originally had shoe molding around all the baseboard. It's one of those details I didn't really look at until the tile was already installed. Now that I see the bathtub without all the construction materials in it and decided to go with the baseboard without shoemolding, I can live with what we have. Weedyacres, I really like the quarter round you have - it looks very natural with the bathroom. Thanks. It makes me feel better to see that this isn't that unusual....See Morepalimpsest
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