Acrylic baths are becoming increasingly popular due to the fact that they are much lighter than cast iron baths. Even one person is able to install an acrylic bath without outside help. Of course, the important advantage of such baths in appearance is that it does not darken and retains the original snow-white color, it is very attractive. Since they are very light, you need to know that you need to securely fix the bath during installation, which we'll talk about.
Complete bath
When buying a bath, you should immediately ask what kit it is for sale. The fact is that some manufacturers produce baths without a frame( legs), since this is an additional equipment. Therefore, if this option is purchased, then the frame( legs) will have to be bought additionally. And immediately the question - where? It needs to be clarified right in the store, as a rule, you can buy everything you need in one place. It should be understood that the bath itself can not be used without a rigid support, it will simply "lead".After all, it is based on polymers, fiberglass.
How to install
After selecting a place to install a bath( there are also large apartments, houses), the first stage of installation will be assembly. The bath is necessarily placed on the frame or on the legs( depending on the model).In some cases for this purpose used in the old fashioned bricks or something else. However, this should be professional masonry, which exactly repeats the contour of the bowl. Although more often use plywood and wooden beams - this greatly simplifies the task.
If you can bring the bathtub assembly to the bathroom, then the assembly of the construction is carried out in any other room - the main thing is that the place is enough. At once it is necessary to make a reservation, that all works should be spent strictly under the instruction on a product. Therefore, the article's material is only a general recommendation of the information type. Moreover, as indicated, all the baths differ from each other in size, and shape, in part - and material.
Consider the option of bundling with legs - for urban apartments such baths are purchased most often. To install the legs, the bath is turned upside down and markings are made. The instructions say how many centimeters you need to retreat from the middle of the drain hole. Through this point it is necessary to draw a line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the bath. Along this line will be installed a guide for the two front( or rear, it's like watching) the legs.
After this, the brackets are fastened to the brackets of the legs themselves, and it is applied to the bath. It remains only to align everything, mark the places where the brackets are fastened. They should, naturally, be at the same distance from the longitudinal axis, in other words, symmetrically. The second guide is also attached to the distance specified in the documentation. Care must be taken when drilling holes for fixing, so as not to accidentally drill a bath through. It remains only to twist the legs( they are composite) and put it in its place. The bath itself is collected, now it needs to be put.
You need to determine how you would be more comfortable - immediately install a siphon on the bathroom or after installing it in place. There can not be a single recommendation. Bath, when it is put on the "own" place, should be carefully leveled. For this, the building level is used. And it is laid in several places, in different directions( along the bath, diagonally, etc.).Adjustment is performed by screwing or unscrewing the corresponding feet. It must be understood that the slightest bias will subsequently lead to deformation of the bowl of the bath.
After the bath has been leveled, along the wall, which adjoins the longitudinal side of the bath, a line along its edge is drawn. Then the bath is removed for a while. On the line will be fixed special staples( hooks), which will protect the bath from distortions, providing additional stability. If the bath is installed in a corner, then the fasteners should be placed on both walls. When marking the mounting locations of the fasteners, account must be taken of the thickness of the side of the bathroom. After the installation of hooks, it remains only to "plant" a bath on them and check its stability.
The last step is to install a siphon on the drain hole and connect it to the sewage system.
When working on installing the bathtub, and also during its subsequent operation, care should be taken to the inner surface. The inner layer is made of a polymer material, and it is fairly easy to damage. It's not for nothing that the shops sell repair kits for acrylic bathtubs, while for cast iron baths( for surface repairs) such kits simply do not exist, since they do not need to be repaired. If you have any questions, see the video on installing the bath:
