Is It Hard To Replace A Bathroom Vanity
Is It Hard To Replace A Bathroom Vanity
I am reasonably handy, but not a DIY genius. How hard is it to replace a bathroom sink and vanity? (Assuming I will not be moving any plumbing.) Any pitfalls?
Thanks!
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I've done it a couple of times, it's what I would consider a medium-level DIY job. Couple of suggestions:
- Make sure that the new vanity covers the same floor area underneath, or that you know what the floor underneath looks like. Sometimes the flooring doesn't go all the way under the vanity.
- Make sure to use plumbers putty to put in the sink drain.
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If the sink drain doesn't match up with the drainpipe, you can buy a little flexible pipe that you can bend in any needed shape, Costs <5$.
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Not too difficult, but that's a good tip about the floor underneath if you're removing a big sink/cabinet thing.
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Make sure to use plumbers putty to put in the sink drain.
Good advice. Use teflon tape on female supply line connection threads, too. This is not a hard job.
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Anonymous wrote:
Make sure to use plumbers putty to put in the sink drain.
Good advice. Use teflon tape on female supply line connection threads, too. This is not a hard job.
Male threads, sorry.
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We've replaced two sinks in our house, one a cabinet type, the other a pedestal.
The biggest challenge we ran into was that the height of the new cabinet sink was a bit off b/c the previous owners had tiled over the original tile and that meant things weren't at the standard height WRT the plumbing.
Google a bit ahead of time. That will give you some more ideas of what to be aware of, supplies, etc. Or get the Readers Digest book of home repairs and maintenance (we use that book a lot and find it really helpful).
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an hour job tops, have the right tools and any job is easy.
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as in many plumbing related jobs, it's always a lot easier if things go without a hitch, and if they start not to, it can get out of hand and into areas where you may wish you had a pro's skills & techniques.
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Easy, expect it to take twice as long as planned and several trips to the store to get the right plumbing parts that fit. It was easier for us to replace than repair our old one so we picked replace.
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Putting together the vanity and connecting the sink to the vanity - generally is very easy
connecting the plumbing fixtures to the sink - usually pretty easy, especially if you do this before connecting the sink to the vanity!
connecting water supply to the plumbing fixture - easy if you don't mind using flexible tubing but tricky if you want to be professional and solder copper tubing to be professional.
To me, the hardest part will likely be hooking the sink to the drain pipe (they never line up!), so be prepared to do a little bit of light plumping. This will be pretty easy if you have some skills working with PVC piping (cutting the piping to length and gluing with the PVC cement).
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Do you have an older house? We just did this, and after thinking about doing it myself and watching some YouTube videos, I decided to have a plumber do it. The plumber quoted me a reasonable rate. It ended up taking him six hours, with multiple complications, including a pipe that broke off inside the wall and tilework that had to be removed to access it (he tried several other methods first). It looked brutal. He was very nice and charged us the agreed-on rate, but I am so glad I didn't do it myself. In theory it's a pretty easy job, but no project at our house ever goes the way it should.
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Is It Hard To Replace A Bathroom Vanity
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