So, as I mentioned on the first page, I jacked up my plumbing recently. Finally had a day to work on it yesterday. Here's how it's going:
Needed room to work, so I decided to remove and replace some tile with a nice design. Removed old tile with a grout saw, hammer and wedge.
Cut out the concrete backer and drywall with my sawzall.
Handy dandy pipe cutter.
Cut cut cut
The old fixture.
Close-up of the damage caused removing the cemented on dome. In my defense, most of that came after I already knew this fixture was a lost cause.
Cut cut cut
The new mixing valve with supply lines and the spout line sweated in.
Necessary tools. Beer and torch. Solder, flux and sandpaper out of frame. On thing I've learned on sweating pipe is that it's all in the prep. Even a substandard solder job will be fine if you prepped correctly.
New valve sweated in. Managed to do the majority of my sweating before installing. Still had to sweat 4 joints in the wall.
Another view. All seems good on the plumbing side. Turned the supply valves in the basement on. Water runs. No leaks.
Drywall and concrete backer board cut and placed. Caulked around the edges. All that remains is to tile. Doing that today.
