As a rule, dismantling the baths are produced during the repair work of the whole room or when replacing plumbing equipment. In any case, you will need a step-by-step instruction of how to remove the bath to not damage the elements of cladding, furniture and other plumbing in the bathroom, work quickly and efficiently.
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Preparatory stage and start of work
Despite the fact that in the process of dismantling, you still have trash, pre-cleaning and preparing the premises is a mandatory step before starting work. If it is a comprehensive repair, then nothing should remain in the room, right up to the shells and hoses. Experts are recommended to dismantle the bath in workwear and protection products. You must be prepared for the fact that the work is to be pretty marking and dirty.
So, before removing the old bath, you need to do the following:
- Fully disable all communications in the bathroom: overcase all water supply cranes.
- Remove all accessories and bathroom accessories. Even if they won't interfere with you, you still risk stuffing them very much or hopelessly damage.
- Take out of the room all furniture: bedside tables, lockers and so on.
- Remove plumbing and Sanfayans.
- Clear the room from everything that can interfere with the work.
Quite often, the dismantling of the bathroom is directly related to overhaul, which implies the removal of tiles, tiles, ripping paints and other facing materials. Everything is done mostly fast enough, but at least you will leave.
We also advise you to ask in advance whether the service of export of large garbage is provided in your home. Otherwise, you will have to export an old bath yourself, which is pretty difficult.
Getting to the dismantling
When all preparatory work is made, you can proceed directly to dismantling:
- First of all, it is necessary to disconnect the drain pipe. If your plumbing is still since the time of the Soviet Union, then, most likely, the pipe is cast iron connected by concrete solution. Naturally, such a design is fixed. The easiest all such pipes simply cut to see in vain not to waste time. In any case, you are hardly used to use them in the future. But the plastic pipes are enough just to spin and postpone the time of dismantling in another room.
- Before remove the bath, disconnect the floor siphon and overflow pipe. Siphon in most cases is fixed with a tight bolt, turned toward the drain grid. Just press it in the opposite direction and unscrew. After that, the siphon is disconnected without problems. It happens that the clamping nut is difficult to unscrew. If it is not amenable to the need for its subsequent use, you can simply cut it with a metal hacksaw. Such nuts are made mainly of soft brass, so they will not need special efforts to cut. If it is uncomfortable to work with the hacksaw, you can use chisel and hammer. Just carefully run her, trying not to damage the bath itself.
- Now it is necessary to make side feeds. They are made from the inside of the drain lattice in such a way that the distances are sufficient to drink the sector from the plum funnel. Its size should be not more than a quarter of the circle.
- Next, carefully select the circumference of the funnel. The most important thing is not to damage enamel. But it is only important if you mount the bath again. If not, you can work faster and without much care. What will eventually remain from plum, push the edges inside, bending with chisel and hammer. Now the drain will be switched without problems through the drain hole in the bathroom, and you can easily pull it out.
- Disconnect the plum-overflow pipe and pull the tap tube from the sewer. In order not to drip the water, the fool itself can be closed with a gag or just wrap a piece of unnecessary fabric. If the bath has been grounded, then the strip should be disconnected so that it does not interfere with working. For this, it is enough just to knock the hammer with a metal wedge. Part of the tiles at the edges of the bath also often have to be removed.
- Now you can exempt the bath from the cement adjacent to it. Again, if you do not plan to use the bath no longer, it is not required. You can simply knock the pieces of cement. It is likely that he will disappear with enamel. However, if the entire plumbing is installed back, you need to act carefully. Upper cement layers can be removed from the same chisel, but it is very careful to do it. Next will have to work more subtle. You can use a knife, a spatula or any other sharpened metal, all actions to carry out extremely neatly. On top you can walk by sandpaper, but it is also fraught with the damage to the enamel, which in the future will cause corrosion. In any case, if the bath was fixed with a concrete solution, then make all the work perfectly, it is unlikely to succeed.
Features of dismantling different types of baths
In general, the process in all cases is quite similar, but different weight implies certain features and causes some difficulties. Therefore, we highlight the key points of the process in each individual case.
Dismantling pig-iron bath. The problem is that the reuse of pig-iron baths is usually not possible. Therefore, the main tool for dismantling will be hammer to which the bath will be broken.
Chump-iron chuck chopping is a labor-intensive process and very noisy. From general considerations, we recommend to warn the neighbors that at a certain time you will repair to avoid then complaints.
Cast iron - the material is very heavy, but quite fragile, if working with force. Choose metal pieces as less as possible to be able to immerse them in bags and take out of the house. The advantage of the breakdown of the cast-iron bath is the elimination of the need to hire a special equipment for export. Slices can be immersed even in a passenger car, take out on the landfill or pass on scrap metal.
If you do not want many hours to work with a heavy hammer, you can use the grinder with a special disk-nozzle. Slices will be smaller and more convenient for removal.
Important! In the paper, use personal protective equipment: gloves, glasses, closed shoes.
About how to remove an acrylic bath, no special detailed instructions required. It is easy and easy to do in the doorway. It can also be cut and removed without any problems.
It should be said that the acrylic baths many agree to take care of the pickup, which will save you from additional troubles.
Dismantling of the steel bath on the principle is almost identical to the dismantling of cast iron. For sawing, it is enough to choose a strong circle and a grinder. But if the bath itself is small, slightly weighs and easily passes in the doorway, it is not necessary to cut it. You can even just take her to the street. You can be sure that it will immediately take it.
Tips and recommendations
Despite the overall ease of work, there are a number of nuances that must be taken into account in the work. Therefore, we bring to your attention a set of basic tips, which will significantly simplify and speed up the process:
- If the bath is light and passes in the doorway, do not spaw it. Save my own time and strength.
- When you take a bathroom out of the room, which you will be mounted back after repair, the corners are better to crack the mounting film so as not to damage the enamel if you hit it about the angles of the opening, etc.
- Watch not to damage parts from fasteners. Try not to lose them. Without these elements, install the bath will be very problematic and standing is very problematic. You will have to go to the nearest construction store and buy new ones.
- We advise immediately during the repair to replace all the tap tubes. Even if they change relatively recently. You can easily damage them, and after installing new plumbing, the replacement process will be very complicated. The replacement will not greatly affect the cost of repair work, but will prevent additional costs of strength and time in the future.
- Pipe joints recommend to handle high-quality sealant. This is rather a preventive measure, but it will never be superfluous and will provide a long service life.
- Before you take a bath, it is better to remove the legs. You will most likely put it in another room, and the metal stand can hardly damage the coating. It will be more reliable to remove them and simply fill the bath side in a new place or tie to the wall.
- When you raise the bath vertically, she can go ahead along the tile. To prevent this, you can lay an ordinary rubber rug under it. This will provide excellent adhesion with the surface and greater safety in the work.
- If one side is firmly attached to the wall, you can simply raise the opposite side and "drop" it on the floor. But you should take care of the mitigation of the blow: impose fabrics, rugs, etc. But if you live in an old house with weak floors, this method is strictly not recommended.
As you can see, the dismantling process itself is nothing complicated, but it requires significant efforts and time costs. Therefore, soberly count my own time and strength. And only after the final repair, proceed to work. You read in detail how to remove the bath you can study the video.
