Alright. In my basement there is a guest bedroom. when you walk into the room, the wall to your right is sheetrock and on the other side of it is a laundry room. I want to knock that wall down and move it out farther increasing the size of the room. The problem is on the other side of the wall is an independant shower stall, it has copper water pipes coming down from the cieling that hook into it for hot and cold water. I need to move the shower to be able to move the wall out but i cant move the shower with the pipes there, they arnt flexible and even if they were they dont go much farther than where the shower is sitting. So i want to know if there is an easy DIY way to be able to unhook the water pipes, move the shower and then do something to rout the water back to the shower. i can bend the pipes into the cieling i think but where do i go from there? is there a way i can hook something to the pipes that is long and flexible?
moving the pipes is no big deal but have you given any thought about the drain?You did say it was a shower the water has to go somewhere,,id call a plumber for a free estimategood luck
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the hot and cold water isn't a prob. u can sweet some new lines where ever you want. The drain is what you should be concerned about. First its the basement so its concrete floor so u can ether break it up which is tuff and messy and not fun but its the right way or you could build a base. good luck
convert the copper pipes to cpvc to re-locate the shower. You can use a compression type transition fitting to change from copper to cpvc, no soldering required. The fitting clamps down on the copper and the cpvc uses glue. Don't try bending the copper piping, you'll kink it, ridgid copper tubing doesn't have that much flex. Just make sure the water is off before you cut into anything, if you're lucky there should be shut offs for the basement shower to isolate it from the rest of the system. If there is you won't lose water to the rest of the house while you fix the shower. If there isn't, I'd suggest installing some. any questions?
