bath coming away from wall

[tonell31]

hello everyone,

my bath is coming away from the wall, have put a bracket onto the wall to stop it coming away though though is still not flush with the wall.

please can you let me know the correct way to do this so that the bath is flush with the wall?

thanks advance for your replies

 

[badbob]

The bath should be held up by it's feet or threaded bolts, not wall mounted. There's just too much weight in a bath to wall mount it, upto 50kg for the bath alone if steel, plus you (500kg? ) plus the water. I'd take the bath panel off and see if it's supported properly.

 

[Winston]

I disagree badbob, the bath should as you say be correctly leveled on the feet of the bath and screw to battens. But the bath should have a timber batten attached to the wall, as should the bath have a ladder frame around the end and fascia area.

 

[migoplumber]

the actual weight of the bath and its water is supported by the feet, it is then screwed to the wall to stop it moving around!

once the bath is levelled, and on a secure base, i use ct1 silicone on the sides that will actually touch something! then i use the l clamps that come with it, and screw them to the bath and wall, if you feel the need you can then screw in additional clamps and batons. generally i dont. occassionally if its a cheap bath and a large customer, i will use a few house bricks between floorboards and bath base to take up the bulk and then fill with expanding foam.

shaun

 

[badbob]

That's exactly what I meant, it should be stable with no wobbling movement in the first place, the wall mounts should not be taking any weight at all. And as previous poster said if the bath is thin acrylic which flexes do the brick/foam thing. If you're trying to correct a wobbly bath rather than stabilising the base instead just by bolting it to the wall it's going to end badly probably by eventually pulling itself out.

Not even a plumber but all pretty common sense and obvious.

 

[Bernie2]

The problem with a bath, is that the weight is not static. The person in the bath moves about and so does the water. The type of wall brackets on most baths could not cope with the weight. The way most people answer the problem is the same or simlar to the way Migo says.

Its also why they use silicone along its wall edges. Its flexible and will move, it should also be able to cope, with not only the bath load movement, but also the expansion and contraction caused by the heated water in the bath.