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Originally Posted by Steeveedee
If I ever build a house that is exactly what I'd do, too! The main water users would be clustered around two rooms, to keep things spread out. Water heater, stuff like that all in their own little room(s).
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Our plumbing is all centralized but not all that accessible. The tub/shower faucet is buried in a wall with the stairway on the back side, so there is a huge timber running diagonally up the wall so you can't pull off the paneling.
And they apparently built the bathroom
around the tub. I think I would have to cut or beat on it to get it out and then a new one wouldn't go in. What I may eventually do is replace it with one of those shorter trailer house tubs, and build out the wall 5-6" on one end for the faucet, with a narrow removable panel so at least you could get an arm in there with a wrench to hold something while you take it apart. That's what caused the problem: the spout rotted off and when I tried to unscrew it the plastic pipe twisted out of the elbow. I managed to make up a short piece and glue it in from the outside but apparently the elbow got cracked too. It blew out later.
The house was originally just a 24x24 foot cabin before the addition, so the bathroom is about the smallest you could ever imagine and still have a tub.
If it was just me, I would just put in a shower stall and be done with it.