How to Relocate Shower Drain Part 1

Oh, I've made a lot of progress. I'm really happy because moving this drain line is now going to be really, really easy

Come here, I'm going to show you what I'm talking about. Look at this. Okay, I used, you know, a big hammer, just like that, and I just started to chip away and make a little hole, and I just kept getting bigger and bigger

And remember, we knew that the heating lines are over here, so it was safe to go ahead and work in this area

And one of the things I did is I initially started out with some water, and I was keeping the dust down by using this water

but I also had some water in this bowl and once I had a little hole I poured water into the hole

you know just to keep the dust down so here's what I found out so the slab is about three inches

thick and then they did the right thing they put two inches of styrofoam this is closed cell

styrofoam on top of gravel fill this gravel on here they had gravel underneath

and here's the good news so here's the drain pipe leaving the shower it goes

straight down and you might be able to see in the hole here there's a 90 degree

they they made their own trap they didn't use a regulation one but anyway

the pipe comes up and the drain pipe is right here where my hand is so all I

need to do is take out a little bit more concrete over here and then over here

you can see this X I did some calculations I know how big my shower base is going to be I know where it going to go We going to show that in another video once we get some things out of the way But just roughly I wanted to know where I had to work to

And it's right here. So I just have to take out, you know, concrete, a strip about like this, over to here, and I'm basically done

done. Now I just have to be really careful right in here, right about in this area, is where that

one heating pipe showed on the thermal image. So we've got to be really careful working around here

And I may do that with just a hammer, a hand hammer and a chisel going really slow. Okay

we're going to have this plumbing wrapped in. It's not too much longer. I would say maybe I've

got another hour, hour and a half max in getting the concrete out of the way. And it's not

going to take too long to rough this in. So the next video what we're going to show is

I'll show you exactly how I got this rough in dimension. Generally when you buy your

shower base, it comes with plans. It comes with install instructions. And on the install

instructions they have a little diagram that kind of gives you the rough end and you have

to be pretty precise but I always like to have the shower base there and double check

the measurements because let me tell you it's really you know you don't have much of a tolerance

maybe an eighth of an inch if you make a mistake so we'll show that in the next video exactly

how to figure out where the drain pipe is going to go. I'm Tim Carter for askthebuilder.com

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