Attach a free standing bath to the floor?

[Terrywookfit]

What has that got to do with it, it's still freestanding or is it more likely to move because it's against a wall

I do apologise, what would your advice be, given the photographs & his/her concerns over stability?

Have you picked one of these things up lately, it would take a good man some effort to get it to move.

When empty they move quite easily if fallen on by a 16 stone man, full of Stella!

 

[Bamber gaspipe]

Have you picked one of these things up lately, it would take a good man some effort to get it to move.

I`m not fitting it, I have been asked to advise, if you have advice give it to the poster, I`ve fitted a thousand freestanding baths, this particular poster has concerns on stability, I am thinking that, judging by the photos & the way that this bath has been positioned against a wall he/she has never installed one before. If that`s the position of the bath, fine. if they are still concerned about stability, fine.


If you can offer better advice DIY please do so.

 

[chrissp26]

Just to clarify a few things,

The wall is not yet tiled as I wanted to get a first fix on the bath completed before hand. I'm tiling the remainder of the walls tomorrow and the floor will go down next week.

The flooring is an aqualok laminate.

At the moment with the waste and the water pipes connected the bath still moves regardless of the weight. Also if you "climb" into the bath by first placing your hands on either long side, then the bath tips up. Now its not likely to do that when full but what if it does it when you are getting out and a load of water goes everywhere?

Free-standing or not it is unstable and needs to be fixed to the floor or wall. As this is the first "free standing" bath I have fitted I was merely after advice on how to best secure the bath to maintain stability.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed and sorry for any confusion.

 

[Bamber gaspipe]

Chris, stick to the advice given, unfortunately there are some old dears on this site who will argue black is white, I hope the in-house bickering between old trades hasn`t put you off

 

[chrissp26]

Not at all. The result is what coutns and I am now armed with a number of ideas that I can implement. Thanks for the help I really appreciate it.

 

[holty]

on the insides of the feet do they not have a recess and slot to put some bolts down, most iv fitted have.

 

[WDIK]

on the insides of the feet do they not have a recess and slot to put some bolts down, most iv fitted have.

i thought that too

 

[chrissp26]

Unfortunatly no. The feet are hollow and I could perhaps drill them to accomodate a bolt or a screw but it would very difficult to tighten them once fitted.

 

[Jump99]

i am also trying to figure out how to fix a free standing bath.

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• Jump99
• 19 Jun 2008
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(this is not the actual bath, but same concept)

unlike chrissp26's bath, this is an acrylic on with no feet. its a double-skin bath with a square hole in the lower skin to allow space for connecting the waste.

other than that it has no other fixings and being acrylic, its very light. also for ease of fitting ive used flexible connectors, so if someone were to say, perch on the edge it would fall over!

ive seen reference to 'floor fixing kits' on a few websites but none that can be purchased seperately so dont really know what they are.

also, the flooring will be lino, so glue isnt an option

im a diy'er fitting a new bath at home, I feel like im missing something really obvious here!
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[tadgh]

your not getting a lot of help really,these baths are a safety issue,no problem when they were cast iron it took 2 good men to put them in place but now they are so light even a whimp could lift them into position.
screw the legs so as the edge of bath is about 3mm above finished floor,mark the profile of bath on floor.
lift bath as high as possible for working clearance and silicon area inside the mark showing profile of bath for 10/15mm,effectively a bead of silicon on floor under bath,put the bath down in its final position and fill with water,clean excess silicon with damp cloth.
it is tempting to add extra weight by putting planks across the bath and then loadings on top,but this will take the bath out of shape and only help it to loosen later.
did you get any help from the suppliers? I doubth it !!!!!!!!!

 

[petit_pablo]

Im hoping 2 years down the road that the bath has been fixed and fitted by now.

 

[tadgh]

Im hoping 2 years down the road that the bath has been fixed and fitted by now.

Yes Sherlock,I should think so !! my bet is he replaced the bath.
what do you recon !! such a pity everybody must know by now how it fit it ??

 

[Jump99]

thanks for the reply. yes the bath has been fitted some time now!

fortunately the bath is against a wall on one side, so i ended up fixing a baton to the wall and mastic'ing it to that. not ideal, but if it does need to come out I only need to cut through one line of mastic!