Now that demolition is finished, the work gets a little more challenging. It seemed like most of my time was spent scratching my head.
Here's the hole in the floor to remove the water damaged planks. We put the new tub in place to check the fit, and it's partially covering the hole.
The new tub fits fairly well. It's about an inch too wide and an inch too short (length-wise), but we'll make it fit. We'll also dry-fit the new tub drain while it is in place.
Here's how the old bath drain was routed (1 1/2" diameter white PVC pipe). As mentioned previously, this runs too low and will hang below the ceiling of our future 3rd bathroom in the basement.
So I set the P-trap to take a 90 degree turn to go through a floor stringer, and turn back and head towards to main drain.
I was a little nervous drilling a 2" diameter hole in the 2"x8" floor stringers, especially since this was near midspan of the beam. Originally I was going to drill more to the right in this picture, but will all the knots at the top and bottom of the section (and a few cracks nearby), I decided to place the shown as shown in this picture. We're looking up through the hole in the floor and can see the tub.
We removed the tub to repair the floor. The opening to the right of the repair is for the tub drain.
I nailed some 2x4's to the wall to make up the distance for the shorter tub. Also shown is the new ledger board that the tub will rest upon.
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