Installing a bath - securing the rear feet - how?

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When installing a new bath, how does one reach the rear feet to screw them to the floor boards?
Or does one simply not bother, and just adjust them so they are supporting the bath, only securing those feet that can be reached?
 
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you can screw them in at an angle but can get away without doing them just do the front & middle ones , make sure you have battens which you screw into thou
 
you can screw them in at an angle but can get away without doing them just do the front & middle ones , make sure you have battens which you screw into thou
not direct into the floorboards as the existing bath was?
 
NO , you need to spread the load of the bath and make sure you fill the bath with water before you silicon the bath as well
 
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NO , you need to spread the load of the bath and make sure you fill the bath with water before you silicon the bath as well
I know about the silicone bit.

Would I be better off using sheet material?
 
I'm guessing sheet material you mean ply , ' no ' just use some 3 by 2 or alike . using battens is especially important when going onto floorboards .
 
The floor boards run the length of the bath.

Should I run the battens lengthwise or widthwise?
 
I call them bearers.

Run them so they each rest on at least two joists, so along the floorboards.
 
But the floor boards already run across the joists.

Joists run
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Floorboards run


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The bath well run the same direction as the floorboards.

So do the "bearers" run parallel to the floorboards and perpendicular to the joists?

Or perpendicular to the floorboards and parallel to the joists?
 
doh :LOL: sorry mate to confuse . ( got misses in my ear ) listen to above .
 
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