{"id":2417,"date":"2017-04-19T22:26:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T22:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2023-09-08T20:31:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T20:31:22","slug":"bathroom-remodeling-locked-place-plumbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/bathroom-remodeling-locked-place-plumbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathroom Remodeling\u2014Are You Locked in Place with Plumbing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Home remodeling 101: Unless you want to double the cost of a remodel, don\u2019t move appliances and fixtures. This is especially true in bathrooms, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well \u2026 mostly<\/em>. But it turns out you may have a little more wiggle room than you thought, at least when it comes to your vanity and sinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still No Major Movements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The rule of thumb does<\/em> still apply. If you\u2019re remodeling a bathroom<\/a> and not<\/em> planning on opening up the main wet wall to do major plumbing work, you can\u2019t do anything drastic. But a smaller shift in the vanity or conversion to a double sink vanity is definitely possible. It\u2019s even something a DIYer can do with a little daring, and willingness to get into some basic plumbing and some slightly more complicated measurements and math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The feeds for hot and cold water are usually just hoses, but even if they are solid pipes in your current configuration, you can convert them to hoses with ease. Those aren\u2019t the problem. The drains are, and here\u2019s what you need to know for those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Right Angles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Right angles in drain pipes are bad, m\u2019kay? Any sharp bends in a pipe create a great place for hair and other detritus to get stuck and form clogs, so you don\u2019t want any right angles, sharp bends, or sudden changes in pipe diameter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To avoid right angles, you can use pairs of 45\u00b0 sections to create more gradual curves. You can also use more sweepingly curved pipes, if you find that they can fit in the space, which they may or may not. Just make sure you plan it all carefully, and sketch out the design on some graph paper, with measurements calculated accurately. The math isn\u2019t too<\/em> hard \u2026 the Pythagorean theorem works fine, or some basic trigonometry will make it a breeze if you\u2019re comfortable with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water Always Flows Downhill<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The final thing you need to account for is that water flows downhill. The entire pipe needs to be flowing downward from the sink into the wall, at an average of a 1:40 gradient, or \u00bc\u201d for every 10\u201d of pipe. This does two things. First, yes, it will make the math slightly<\/em> more difficult, but you can handle it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other thing it does is provide the ultimate limit for how far away from the wall inlet you can get the sink. Once you\u2019ve gone far enough away that you don\u2019t have any further you can go upward to meet the sink\u2019s drain pipe and still be going uphill, you\u2019re done. So a move of ten or twenty inches is entirely doable. A move of five feet pretty much isn\u2019t, not to mention that the place where the plumbing comes out of the wall would likely be outside the vanity then!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you haven\u2019t decided on the model of vanity or vanities you\u2019re going with, check out our free consumer\u2019s guide to kitchen cabinets<\/a>. True, it\u2019s not geared toward bathroom vanities, but many of the things you\u2019ll learn will apply, and help you make the best decision in your bathroom remodeling adventure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The age-old adage of remodeling is that you can\u2019t move anything that has plumbing hook-ups without adding immense cost. But is that really true?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[541],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}