when installing a new bath do you have to spread the weight of it (as when filled with water) or does the bath usually come with supports, etc????
new bath-spreading the weight?
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the cheap ones come with five feet but they are crap. i useally sit the legs on 4 x 2 and lower the legs. rather than having the flimsy legs up full height.
one piece across the back two legs one on the front and a block in the middle.
one piece across the back two legs one on the front and a block in the middle.
a block in the middle?? what kind of block?
4x2 a small 6" long 
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square block of 4 x 2 theirs only one leg surport in the middle
what about a cradle? don't baths come with these? i heard somewhere that baths needed to be supported along a wall on their length? just don't want it to go through the ceiling!!!
pay good money for a bath like a laufen they come with an ali surport alround bath and base.
cheap rubbish come with nothing round the rim so you use 2x1 screwed to the wall or counter sink it into wall.
that will only surport the rim to stop it flexing when getting in and out not stop it coming through your ceiling.
cheap rubbish come with nothing round the rim so you use 2x1 screwed to the wall or counter sink it into wall.
that will only surport the rim to stop it flexing when getting in and out not stop it coming through your ceiling.
so what do most plumbers do when installing a new bath? just use 4x2's??
i use 4x2 screwed to floor 2x1 around rim depending on wall or sink bath into a channel slightly in the wall but still with surports so it can't be pulled away from wall.
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