Removing your double wide's shower is necessary for major plumbing and bathroom repairs.
Whether you're giving your double wide trailer's bathroom a facelift or performing major plumbing repairs, you may have to remove the shower assembly. While the task may seem intimidating, removing the shower from your mobile or pre-fabricated home is similar to removing a shower from a traditionally built home or structure. It takes a good amount of planning, as well as plumbing tools and supplies that can be purchased at your local hardware store. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Disable the water supply going to the shower. Locate the hot and cold water valves beneath the bathroom sink and rotate the valves clockwise to the "off" position.
2. Disable all electrical power to the bathroom to prevent electrocution if you happen to encounter exposed electrical wire. For additional protection, disable all power to the entire mobile home at the circuit breaker and wear rubber gloves.
3. Crawl beneath the mobile home until you are directly under the shower drain pipe beneath the bathroom floor. Use a hack saw to cut off the shower drain pipe as close as possible to the shower drain. Cut away all glue, caulking and other adhesives around the drain pipe joint.
4. Go back into the bathroom and remove the shower doors, if they are present. Most mobile home shower doors are secured to the shower's frame with Phillips-head screws, flat-head screws or hex bolts.
5. Cut through the sheet rock lining the outside of the shower frame with a sharp utility knife. Use a heavy-duty sledge hammer or mallet to demolish the shower's lining walls. Alternatively, you can carefully pry the walls off of the shower with a pry bar if you plan to preserve the walls. Either way, the shower's walls must be removed.
6. Use a pry bar to remove all nails and debris from the wall studs surrounding the shower assembly. Use a hacksaw or similar tool to cut the water lines extending from the shower assembly. Close the cut-off ends of the water supply pipes with two water pipe caps.
7. Pry up the base of the shower with pry bar. If you're not interested in preserving the shower's base assembly, you can demolish it with a sledge hammer. Pry up all excess debris, and remove all nails still attached to the mobile home's sub flooring.
8. Grasp the entire shower assembly and lift it up out of the mobile home's floor to remove the shower from your mobile home. Locate the cut-off drain pipe just below the mobile home's sub flooring and close it off with a pipe cap.
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