How to Fit a Bath and Prevent it Wobbling
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- čas přidán 20. 01. 2017
- Sponsored by Abacus, Roger shows you how to install an Abacus Bath with his plumber's tricks and tips.
The bath shown is an Abacus Bathrooms single ended 1700x750mm Series 2 Bath with Armour Plus super strength acrylic. Manufactured using the same high-grade materials, the Series 2 baths are a more angular take on their best-selling Series 1 range.
Armour baths have more strength and are heavier than standard acrylic baths. The extra layers created during the Armour process create a significantly reinforced product.
The finished Armour bath offers a higher degree of comfort and luxury, backed with the Abacus unbeatable 30 year guarantee.
Find out more at: www.abacus-bathrooms.co.uk/
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Nice work Roger, that abacus sure know what they are doing. It's good because it's belt and braces which us plumbers love! With baths I stick some extra bearers in tight on the underside of the bath so I have 4 or so points the bath is sat on. I also glue the nuts in place as the older baths had a habit of undoing them selves. That seal looks looks like something I do with the tanking kit. Most baths/showers I will tank the area but with the fibre tape I will slightly lip it on the edge so I can tile on top of this, creates a little upstand. The best showers I fit come with upstands pre-manufactured into place. Love them made by Coram. great simple design, however some customers don't like the way they look!
Roger, you are a lifesaver. Just about to fit a bath and the job will be infinitely superior to what it might have been had I not watched your video. Thank you so much for your excellent advice, Sir. Much appreciated.
Love your Chanel Roger just for casual viewing whilst working!
Thank you Roger. Top advice, very helpful!
Thanks Roger; I like the idea of the 'double' seal around the bath.
Thanks Roger for another great video
Very helpful video, thank you Roger 🙏🏼💖✨
Great video Roger like your idea about the bearers shorter legs give more strength and easier to fix them on a concrete floor so you can screw the legs in.
Excellent video, cheers.
Really like this idea.
Good one. I liked the detailing very good information
Good simple advice 👍
Great advice Roger. Another important aspect of fitting a bath is bath height, especially if bath panels are being used but equally thought should be given to tile heights. Nothing worse then being asked to fit a bath panel and find that the plumber has set the bath too low so you have to cut sometimes rather flimsy panels down to fit.
Always try and think of the next tradesman to work on whatever you’ve just fitted like tradesmen used to.
If everyone thought like this everybody would get home on time ! 👍
@@garethwatson7999 ... All well and good, but think of the poor Traffic Wardens!! All that finishing on time and they're gonna be missing their targets!!
This guy is brilliant and really sells the product. You know he knows his stuff and that it is the way to go from a DIY perspective
Another top video. I'm looking forward to your next one now, I find them all very interesting. Only one problem ... you need to make more :).
This little czcams.com/users/postUgkxVoi3B4CB6Oygq1-vo4OTL1M_M5JkrXif tub works perfect in our 6 x 6 shower and is easy to get in and out. Also easy to drain.
Great advice.
Thank you.
can someone please.tell me why the blue paste is used bere and advertised but isnt included in the kit on the website
The No leak kit shown here co tains a brush and also the bkue sealing paste, when i click on the abacus link and check this kit on their site it doesnt contain that paste and brush? am i missimg something here. Please help
Nice video
Good to see real craftsmanship.! My bath from Trojan, supposed to be 5mm thick, it is not anywhere you measure it and it's not even level out of the mould. Lesson learned, spend as much on the bath as you can afford. I also took the legs from my old damaged bath and attached them as extras to the new one. Also finished it with an upright in each corner, it's not going anywhere now. I would add that these thin baths are at as much risk from breakage at the fitting stage as they are in service.
Funny you should say that as I brought a wickes bath made by trojan and out of level as you say plus bath edge 40mm either end and 45mm in middle meaning bath panel will be 5mm out either end. It's going back. !!
Another nice project
Thank you. Good to have your feedback
I've had to set mine higher due to a drain not draining. I have slight movement so I think I shall use an adhesive to hold it in place. I don't want to take bath out again but I wish I had a baton against back wall
Another great video, I use stuff called classi seal it’s excellent product and no mess easy apply, you should check it out , might suit or might not 👍🏻
Thanks Richie
I have the product right here and I have used it in the past. More or less the same thing but the old Classi Seal was a bit thicker.
Excellent program, enjoyed watching you and learning the same time. Best ever seen.
Good luck and thank you.
Question.... If I use the no more leaks sealing tape, will this affect my Sure-seal trims when I come to install them for the wall cladding later on? Thanks...
by wall cladding I mean PVC Shower/bath pannels. thanks
when would you and when would you not use battens.
Roger knows 👌
Can you change the bath legs to enable tiles to be fitted instead of a plastic panel?
Yes I would never fit a plastic panel. I hate them
New superhero idol: This guy 👆. Superhero power: preventing the nation from plumbing fck ups 👏. You sir, helped me renovate my bathroom. I knew absolutely nothing about plumbing and fit outs till I came across your channel. Massive thank you 🤗
Very helpful video Roger, thank you. If you can post the link for 'no leak' kit. Nothing comes up on google. And the abacus website isn't very good to navigate. Cheers, and thanks for your great channel.
B&Q stock it
@@SkillBuilder Cant we.buy the one with the pro seal blue sealant from anywhere
@@SkillBuilder Bnq dont stock it
@@utoob22 they do: www.diy.com/departments/aquadry-wet-room-sealing-kit/1055169_BQ.prd
Thanks Roger, do you have a link of somewhere to buy that kit online? I can't seem to find it!
Hi Tim
We should have done that, I am sorry.
As far as I know it is in B&Q and Homebase as well as some plumber's merchants but I will ask Abacus for an online seller and include it next week.
Tommy I make no distinction between the information I carry in my brain and the information I can access. It all does the same thing except for algebra which is the devil's work.
Hi Tim
I had a word with Abacus and they say the best place to get the kit right now is from B&Q. It includes a self adhesive tape so no need to paint on the ProSeal
Thank you for the video, what was the brand of the glue you use? Also would you use this to seal around the plug hole and drain pipe connectors? Thanks in advance! Karl
Did you ever get an answer? Interested
@@starman7982 looks like a no to that
Looks like a CT1 but it is hard to see.
Do you not have to fill the bath with water or weigh it down over night and let the adhesives and/or silicones to go off?
You can but these baths don't move
No more leaks seal is £40. There must be a less expensive secondary seal.
what is that tool you are using to tighten bath drain and overflow?
It comes in the kit
@@SkillBuilder Thank you for your reply. It means I need to buy that kit just to have that god's hand.
Hello Roger, what was the bath waste and overflow used?
Viegga overflow filler
@@SkillBuilder thank you. Does that model require trap?
Hi made a mistake he measured the bath then put the wood behind then put berers on. Now the bath would be higher than he measured for
well spotted.
@@SkillBuilderbut shortened the feet to I assume match the same height, so not really a mistake...
Why not show a proepr demo in a normal setting when walls aren’t square
Great video, thanks, but if a plumber fitted a bath for me with the overflow half way down the bath, he would be replacing the whole thing.
Archemides comment haha 👍🏽
It’s almost as if you have invested interests in abacus 😂
Vested but not invested
Not buying this time Roger.
Classi Seal or clone everytime, double stuck with butyl adhesive tape. Much better tile to bath seal and a hell of a lot less faff than the Abacus method.
I like Classi Seal as well
The way u explain things sounds like U r more then a plumber
U should b working for a some tv channel too
Thumbs up
For u
I used to do television but I can't afford the face lifts anymore.
@@SkillBuilder 👍👍👍
U r tubes hero
15 year guarantee is useless. A bath should last for 50 years at least.
It will
@@SkillBuilder Good, my bath at home I would estimate was installed in the 1950s. So over 70 years ago. Cast iron, very heavy. Now I want to replace it with a lighter version, too much strain on the floor joists, but otherwise still going strong.