Okay, so in this video we’re going to replace a laundry tub. Literally going to take less
than 15 minutes to do something like this. Stick around. If you have a tub that is draining
slowly, we have one important tip to give you on how to make sure that your plumbing
is set up to drain properly. So first thing is is always turn off the water.
We do have copper lines hold onto our faucet. I am not planning on replacing this. It’s
actually in good shape, and the water is not dripping. So one way to just test your faucet
is by turning it on and then making sure that it’s not dripping. A lot of times the seals
in these faucets end up leaking. If it is leaking, I would suggest just replacing it.
It’s going to be a lot easier than trying to find the right rubber gasket for this.
Plus, a lot of laundry tubs come with faucets as a kit. So you could just buy that tub with
the faucet. So first thing we’re going to do is shut
off the water to the entire house. Typically, this is where you would have your meter. So
we’ll shut off the water at your meter. Okay, so we got that shut off.
This is the nut that is actually holding my faucet to the mounting block. The mounting
block gets attached to your laundry tub. So you want to loosen that so we can actually
get the laundry tub out of there. Now that moves that out of that block.
And secondly, we’ll remove our trap. Have a little water bucket to catch any water.
Okay, and then at this point, you should be able to slip your laundry tub out.
Put our feet in our new laundry tub. Okay, and then the package it has, it has these
adjustable feet. This will allow you to adjust things level with your probably most likely
uneven floor. These square nuts go into the groove on the feet. And what this will do
is allow us to adjust this to level. So we’ll just keep this loose for now so that we can
adjust them when we have the new tub in place. So this is the tip that I want to bring to
your attention because a lot of laundry tubs in basements do not have this, and you want
to make sure that you do have one if you’re having any trouble with the drainage of your
tub. And that is an air vent. This is actually an air vent that will allow air to flow in,
but you’re not going to get any sewer gas up of it. You want to be sure to have some
kind of ventilation on your plumbing. All plumbing needs air to come in to allow the
water to flow. So it’s a great idea if your tub is not draining properly to just simply
attach an air vent like this on your drain. Or hopefully you actually have an actual vent
that goes all the way through your roof. But this is a great solution on tubs that do not
have a vent attached to it. This will make things drain much quicker and flow much easier
and keep your drains from clogging. We’ll put our existing mounting block into
our sink. It essentially just clips in. Adjust our mounting screw tight into the block.
Okay, then before you put the trap into place, I would make sure that you level your tub.
You want to make sure it’s level before you actually hook up that trap. Take our screwdriver
and adjust our feet. It’s actually not too bad that way. Okay.
So with the package of your laundry tub, it’ll pretty much always come with a slip nut that’s
actually made for the tub that you purchase. So you want to make sure you take that along
with the gasket that is made for your specific tub. We’re going to reuse our old drain
because there’s no reason in my mind to replace this ABS piping. So we’ll just put
the new slip nut onto it. And then we’ll just put our gasket inside of the pipe. You’ll
thread this on your new tub. Since we’re using our old P-trap, you want
to always make sure that the beveled edge if the gasket is down. So you want to make
sure that goes into your fitting. So always have your gaskets with the wedge portion facing
down. Turn the water back on, and we’ll test our
drain. So one tip you want to maybe sure of, and
I find this to be a common mistake of a lot of people, you don’t want to use pliers
or channel locks to actually tighten down your drain. If you have a leak, it’s most
likely because you’re trying to stress that pipe to fit into the P-trap. Meaning your
pipes are not all aligned with one another. Just by tightening with channel locks is actually
going to end up cracking your P-trap. It’s only supposed to be hand-tightened. So if
you’re having an issue with your plumbing lining up, you’re going to have to address
that. You can’t force it, and you don’t want to have a leak from cracking.
One other tip, this is actually well solid here, but I always advise actually putting
anchors into your feet. This will be sure that when somebody’s walking up here washing
a paintbrush that they don’t kick the legs and move your laundry tub. I see that all
too often where something gets moved and you crack your piping. And you definitely don’t
want to have a water leak from your water supply. So use a hammer drill. If it’s over
concrete, put some Tapcon screws in it. And I always use Tapcons that are an inch and
¼ to go into concrete. You don’t need to have a really long Tapcon; just something
to actually mount these brackets to the floor. All right, so
that was a quick, easy way to replace your laundry tub; save yourself some money. If
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