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Hi guys, welcome to today's pullapart.co.uk video.
We're revisiting a few old subjects today.
And today I'm gonna show you how to fit an offset bath
in the space we've got behind us here.
We've got ourselves a little aonisi shower in already.
And basically I'm just gonna show you how to line up,
and fit the bath, and get the feet on.
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Here's the bath that we're working on.
I've already taken out the pack that's got the feet on it.
Usually you'll find your bath
has got two big beams like this.
The first thing you wanna do,
is basically get our bath up on end,
and actually fix the feet to it.
So, let's do that quickly now.
Keep all the tabs on there now,
while we're at it.
Look at that.
(sped up talking)
Right, so what you wanna do,
you've got probably a pack a bit like this.
Loads of stuff in here. These are your feet for in a minute.
Pop them out the way. Just pull everything out, like so.
What we're looking for are these tiny little screws.
We don't want too long of screws because there's a
plywood base in here.
And that's only gonna be like eight mils
or probably ten mils thick. Something like that.
And what we wanna do is just make sure we use the little
baby screws on here so that we don't go through that base.
Now, what I would recommend, there's only four feet on this.
A lot of baths will have a big long foot here,
a big long foot here and then one in the middle.
We haven't got this on this bath.
It's obviously a very well made bath.
I kind of want the weight to be nice and easily distributed.
I mean, sort of almost doing it by eye.
The thing is, you don't want to tie yourself up with this
hole here, the waste outlet that we're gonna be doing.
So we just want to get our other bar and put that
just roughly along here, like so.
And also, yeah so we just there. Is it perfect?
If you want, you can read the instructions.
This is such an easy stage in the job.
We've obviously got a big chunk of glue on it.
Probably want to just pull that off.
One thing I would say about baths when you're doing them,
is a lot of the time you'll find that there's a litte bit of
fibre glass sticking out.
Guys, if you get that in your finger, you ain't known
pain until you don't that, I tell ya.
I'm only gonna move that down just about here.
(bright music)
(sped up drilling and talking)
What you're going to want to do now
is just make up one of your feet.
I have these just on the inside, like so. Just like that.
And then you're gonna get another one.
I mean, every bath manufacturer is different.
This is just the way I do this, okay.
Try and have your feet, as well
so they're really kind of quite high up.
Because what we're gonna do, we're gonna batten our wall.
Now, the idea is once we've got our wall battens on
we use the height of the side panel and where the tiles
are and everything to define how high we want to make the
bath later on in the job.
So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna put on my other feet
and get the other block put on down at the bottom.
I'm also, if we've got one on-site, I'm pop the waste on,
but it's not especially important because, guess what,
the waste is right near the front side panel, okay.
So we're all good for that.
So what I'm gonna do is get these all put together
and we're gonna sit the bath up,
marry the side panel up to it and then we're gonna
go up into the bathroom and do our measurements
before we even take the bath up there.
Right, so we've got the bath down,
we've got these feet on here,
and we've got all the protective cardboard off.
The next thing you need to do is a lot of times baths
will come with special little brackets
that just go under here. What you want to do is
get them put on now, okay. So you can have one...
There's usually a tiny little bit of wood.
What you want to do is set the bracket back
about two or three mil off the face of the actual
side of the bath. Because what this is gonna do is
when our side panel is up, it's gonna push under there
and get sandwiched under there.
So, they usually supply all the screws with them.
It's a bit of a fiddle,
so I'm not gonna go through it all now.
I'm just gonna pop 'em on quickly in front of you.
You don't have to watch me swear and (mumbles).
Already. (laughs)
Why do they always send such crap screws with these?
(bright music)
So now we've got this in here, we should...
I'm just gonna do a little test.
Just pop the side panel...
The baths obviously way too high at the moment.
Watch when I try and see how this goes in.
(grunts) There we go. That slots in there lovely.
So now, I can put the rest of mine on and get on with that.
(bright music)
So now we've got all these on, we should just be able to
mock up the actual side panel going on the bath,
even though our bath is currently way too high.
So as you can see on there, this should just push in.
These can be a bit fiddle-y.
I'll be honest, if you want to do one at a time,
really, so we just get one in there, like so.
Like that.
Then work our way around.
What we want to do is, we want to measure
from the bottom here, to the underside of the bath.
Remeasuring it, I'm just gonna say 5-1-7.
So, that's 5-1-7 there.
Make sure up this end.
5-1-8.
Keep the number that you've measured there in your mind.
For us today on this one here, it's 5-1-8.
Right, so back up in the bathroom, what we need to is
we need to measure up our 5-1-8, okay, or our measurement,
not from the floor level, but from the finished floor level.
Because what happens is, when the tilers come in,
they'll tile further under the bath, obviously,
and you have to account for the depth of the tile
and the adhesive when you're putting your front panel on.
Where's my pen? Where's my pen? Where's my pen, pen, pen?!
Right, so what you're gonna do, firstly,
get your Michael Bublé out and just make sure
the floor is level. Lovely.
And also as a tip, just get your spirit level.
Make sure it's obviously level and then just run a line up,
like that. And then you'll know that when you're putting
your tape up against it, you'll know that your tape is level
and you're getting a really accurate reading.
So, grab my tape.
5-1-8.
I'm just gonna lower my line.
5-1-8 is here.
Right, simple then.
I take this mark here, I'm not gonna draw up another mark
there, I'm just gonna use my spirit level and I'm just
gonna go around the whole of where the bath is with
my spirit level.
Making sure that it's nice and level,
we're gonna draw a line all the way around.
(bright music)
By the way, the holes you see behind us here,
because when this funky first fixed,
unfortunately he put the control cables for the
Aqualisa Quartz in the wrong way around.
Aqualisa I would like to say, you do have a sticker
on the end that says controller end.
And for people who don't know, it is a little bit
misleading, just so you know. (laughs)
Alright, I don't know if you need bum crack.
Oh isn't that lovely. Oh, he's bum cracks now.
(sped up talking)
Alright, now I should be able to run my tape up here
and just make sure that this measure is 5-1-8.
It does.
Bang on!
Right, easy peasy bit next.
Right, I've got three battens of wood.
One long and two short.
Two short ones are just gonna sit on here,
on that line like that. Just sat up there.
And then the long one at the back,
will sit along there as well.
So let's just pop a couple screws in there now.
What I'm also gonna do is use a little bit of glue
as well, just to make sure they're glued up.
I've made sure that the bit of wood I've chosen
already is nice and straight as well, so...
Sometimes you can get bits of batten in that's bowed.
So gunk number one up.
Now we're gonna marry this up so the top of this goes to
our line that we've just marked out.
(sped up drilling)
I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.
Set him across the back bit here.
And then one down our far end as well.
So now we've got all those marked out
it might be a good idea, just go make yourself a brew,
and let some of your glue off a little bit if you've
put any of that on and that's great.
While you're doing that, pop back downstairs
and also bring up all the feet on the bath
so they're at their lowest, so that the bath is
as low as possible.
What that means is when we lay the bath in in a minute
the feet will just be hanging in midair,
but we know that our bath is already level
and that all we need to do, nice and easy,
is just bring our feet down so they're just taking
the weight of the bath. And then we can glue our bath in
and that's it, we're pretty much done.
(humming and laughing)
Alright, guys. So we're just gonna gonna life this onto
our battens which we've already made level.
With any luck...
Look at Jamie's booty.
(bathtub sliding against walls)
Now she'll just sit on our battens.
Nice and level.
And that's it. Done. Boom. Hashtag ledge.
Guys, I'm sure you've notied how easy that was to do.
Basically, just lay the bath down straight onto our battens
that are already level, which inherently means that
if the bath has been cast properly,
it means that everything you've put up here
is level as well.
So, now all I've got to do is basically at me leisure,
pop my feet on and you may have notice that we took
the feet off before we put the bath on,
purely because it was just getting pretty difficult
to actually get it up here. And I was starting to cry.
(crying noise)
So yeah. So all I've got to do now...
It's just such an easy job now.
Just great here, eh. So good.
Okay, so there's that one in there our hearts.
(bolts spinning)
Alright, then it is tightly...
Just a point of making sure these are just nip tuck tight.
Just get this one wind, okay. And then what you're doing,
you're just taking the weight of the bath.
I'm just gonna put some wider feet on here.
There we go.
(bolts spinning)
I'm just gonna do that all the way around now.
I've put the small camera underneath
so you can watch me struggle.
(bright music)
So there you go. You've got the bath in.
We've got it all level. We've got the feet on.
These are all nip tuck, nice and tight.
Now there's something you can also do.
You can have these side little clips
that'll go on the side of the bath.
It's up to you if you pop them on.
It depends on how you wanna fix your
bath into the actual space.
What I do now is we've got so many new glues
and ways to use good adhesives to get onto the bath,
I would use a good adhesive if I was you
and put that on braces.
Obviously also put on your side clips as well.
But just to prove that the way I've measured everything up
and the way that we've done this is correct,
let's go and get the side panel and pop it in.
(bright music)
Bang on. A bit floppy.
Mrs. Ploppy.
So let's push that there so I'm under there now.
There you go. Just a little bit of adjusting
and popping about. That's there.
Most side panels will come with side shoes
that you put down low or some people batten it as well.
And then you can put your battening on and push up to that.
If you want to find out how far to put your battening
all you need to do is get yourself your spirit level,
dangle that down off the side of your bath.
Imagine this isn't here.
And then make a mark is where your spirit level is there
and then go back about five mil and then that will be
where the edge of your battening is
and you'll be fine there and that's done.
So there we go. The bath is in.
I'm gonna glue it in now.
I'm just gonna run my glue in around the side there
and then effectively I'm gonna
have to leave it for a little while.
As tempting as it is to start playing around
and getting the waste in, we've got a special bath filler
on this side for the actual bath itself,
as tempting as it is to do all that,
it's best just to wait, just to leave it. Let that set.
(bright music)
So then guys, there we go.
The bath is installed. We're all done. I'm really pleased.
It's been done. I'm very happy!
I mean, what else can I say.
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