Actually bathplanet could do complete shower renovations in 1 day with 1 licensed and insured contractor. How do i know? i was that one guy in Nashville Tennesse that could. My name is still on lots of positive reviews on the their website. however for every successful amd happy customer of mine there was a dozen other displeased and lied to clients. While i tried to take time to insure proper installion with quality matariels and workmanship was at the higgest regard. Bathplanet did not necessarily agree or appreciate my level of quality and professionalism. Companies like bathplanet, bath fitters, and McDonalds use undertrained or nontrained greenhorn idiots that have no idea what there doing! More often then not your so called installer is merely a warm body who spends more time on the phone calling the boss for help or getting high out back then a highly trained professional who cares about your satisfaction and longevity of your overpriced peice of printed acrylic. if you want a quailty product from end to finish dont expect a day transformation. While it maybe possiable i guarantee the odds are not in your favor. its been several years since moving on from McBathPlanet 🛀 and even longer since thread was created.. just had vent… End rant!! Rome was not built in a day and neither should your bathroom.

Actually there is merit to their answer, You need to have at least 3-4 gallons of water in the refrigerator side in jugs and at least 2 gallons in the freezer if nothing else such as perishables. If you have a completely empty unit, what is there to remove heat from? or be cold ? besides the air which falls out as soon as your door opens. Unless you have a unit with a lid on top as in the market, cold falls and falls fast. The room temperature air immediately replaces the cold air you had and the unit will not read a cold temperature unless you stick it to the wall, but box temps will not ever be cold empty with an open door. Google this yourself, I have 40 yrs doing this and many times I am not believed like when I tell them my $85 call was to set the dial to the middle setting, as they pegged both to coldest, which if you really check it out, gives you a colder freezer and starves the refrigerator side, all its cooling is from the freezer box, there is no separate coil or system, the way the air circulates into the reefer is by a tiny trap door, the other dial is the thermostat which controls the compressor.

How much of the wall to open and patch is another question. Only someone on site can tell for sure. A photo would help. Perhaps it will only be possible to replace the valves by cutting open the "drywall" or whatever your 1938 house has as wall surface. It may be possible to have a set of dual shut off valves; there are ways, that experienced plumbers know. E.g. installing an "offset" or moving the pipe by an inch without stressing it. Besides, how much distance is deemed by you to be just slightly too far apart might not be too far apart. Copper was the material for your pipes in 1938 but what material gets installed today is up to you or your plumber. Which fittings or adaptor to use is another question. If the new valves are to be soldered, this opens another batch of "things to know". There are still many little things to know, katsmah, but if you read a lot you might be able to get a whole lot more comfortable with the work involved. A single device can be purchased that one can probably install all by oneself no matter how many left thumbs one has: a combination sharkbite / hammer arrestor / shutoff valve . After web searching, call the Sharkbite company for guidance to figure out what product. A "master" plumber can work with pipes that still have water trickling down. The drier the better. The whole house water has to be turned off and the water in them has to be drained from all the pipes before cutting into them to replace a non-operating valve. It can happen that this takes a fair amount of time. If you and a handyman do this valve replacement, it will help your handyman helper if you drain the pipes before she or he arrives on the scene. Nothing written in this post is intended to contradict manhattan42's statement. The job will cost what it will cost. To be more certain of success, hire a plumber who charges a high hourly wage. On average when you compare a low-price and a high price plumber, the latter will be faster, more efficient, making wiser choices, being smarter-for-you, installing everything in a better quality way with better workmanship. Hth

Again, thanks for the responses. I think it is a small company, but not just a one-man-show - at least a few employees not including the actual installers who do the work. I actually don't recall how long it took to get the first quote, maybe a few days, maybe a week. That first one was supposed to be tailored to us a little, but it was mostly just base options for one series of window. Then, at the installer's suggestion, we considered changing to a different series, and it took almost 3 weeks to get that quote back. Meanwhile, a third series option has become perhaps even more attractive to us after doing our own research (that's what happens when you're waiting 3 weeks I guess), and I'm almost afraid to ask again after my first specific request for a quote met a "about 10-20% more" response with no offer to actually quote it. That's primarily why I wanted to know if it was a 10 minutes or 3 hour type of task (actual work by the installer) that I am requesting of him; he seems so reluctant to work up a quote. We still wanted a more tailored quote for the original series, one with glazing options etc that we've specified after doing our homework. We also wanted to price out different types of windows in the same location in a one area, upgraded wood/stains, and grilles types, but we haven't even mentioned these thoughts because we already feel pressured to just make up our mind on what we want not knowing specific prices differences. The errors I mentioned for this installer were in the fact that he omitted options we specified meaning we still won't be able to compare costs with the series he recommended when we get the new estimate. Meanwhile, the 2nd installer I contacted said on a Friday we would have a couple quotes (two series) by Monday, but it wasn't until the following Friday that we had them. This installer made a lot of gross errors or typos in measurements that will have to be corrected. I expected a corrected version last Thursday; still don't have it. Anyway, that's where things stand. I just didn't know how big of a deal it was to ask one of these installers to work up multiple quotes, and I don't want to come across as unreasonable or annoy them, because I certainly don't want someone who personally dislikes me working on our house...