extracting bath in tight space!

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Hi, I guess the previous owner of my house thought it smart to build the bathroom around the bath. Not a plastic but steel one. It gets worse - kitchen units on other side of partition wall abutting tap end, 12" brick supporting wall at foot end all nicely sealed in with distasteful tiling!

20 years on and the bath is showing signs of wear and I would like an upstairs bathroom. How to extract the bath? I can only think of two ways:
1) cut it in half twice and remove the middle slice
2) chop out a bath-sized hole in the brick wall & drag it out lengthways into the conservatory

Which would be cheaper/safer? Any other suggestions?

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Thank you, I hope it's cast iron as a plumber told me it could be steel. I thought it could be cut with a circular grinder if necessary.
At least I won't have to break the wall down.
Andy8
 
If the plumber said it's steel, it's steel. Cast iron hasn't been used for normal installations for lifetimes.
If it's steel you'd probably be better off with a good jigsaw than an angle grinder. You'll get through a few blades but with a lot less evil dust than a grinder.
 
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hit it with a large hammer and if it breaks its cast, if it puts a big dent in it then its steel.
and wear eye protection when you do it
 
thanks for the info - will pass it on. I was thinking about how to avoid clouds of toxic dust with the grinder
 
Or hire an oxy acetylene torch! :p

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