installing a new bath

[ryanmidson]

i am eager for some guidance from anyone with experience of this situation: i am to install a new bath tomorrow in my sisters house. in fact a whole bathroom suite of bath, pedestal basin and toilet.

i have piped up to basins, toiets before but have an issue or shoud i say slight doubt with the bath.

she has ordered the suite already and i have not yet seen it. i have understood that some baths require to be fixed to the wall with brackets, that are already joined to the side of the bath, but some have wooden planks underneath the bath feet, and some have a cradle.

basically, i have no probpem with pipework, waste and supply, but are baths in general easier to balance out level and secure ?? any tips i may find useful? i know it is late.

 

[Watchmaker]

A DIYer's comment here but, I have fitted three baths and here are my thoughts. The frame and fixing brackets, supplied with most baths are, in my opinion, totally inadequate. I have used them but, in each case I have fitted a timber frame for the bath to sit in. A good batten, screwed to the wall and, on the outer edge of the bath, suitable vertical timbers to support the outer edge where, inevitably, there will be a lot of load when people enter or leave the bath. It's difficult to adequately fix the inner edge of the bath, to the wall, and the timber frame allows the bath to be supported and, most important, if some sort of locating blocks, or pegs, are fitted, there will be none of that unsightly movement to break up the silicone seal (recommended) between the bath and the wall, or tiles. When the bath is sitting in it's timber frame, I adjust the (usually feeble) supplied support legs and adjustable feet, to just meet the base of the bath and, when it is full of water, the bath "settles" without any flexing of it's top edge.