I need to relocate my shower for various reasons, and am therefore trying to 'uninstall' it. Unfortunately whoever installed it did a very thorough job and I can't make the tray move even slightly. I want to re-use it, but at the moment it is looking like a sledgehammer job.
The tray is plastic, embedded with what looks like expanding foam (ie, it was supplied that way). It's sitting in a tiled corner (on two sides) on a 0.5" marine ply base, which in turn is supported by 2" square timber beams. No visible fixings anywhere (suspect there are probably screws down thru the ply and beams into the floorboards. I've tried ramming a wrecking bar and cold chisel into any gaps in the wood I can see, but it just deforms the timber and they become embedded. And the shower tray is not strong enough to lever against; and it's solid as a rock, can't induce any detectable movement whatsoever. Can't access it from underneath (there's a lath-and-plaster ceiling I'd rather not destroy).
So how are these things normally fixed - what am I likely to be up against? I'm damned glad I'm not having to fix a leaking drain under it rather than pulling it out! Are there likely to be lugs buried in the plaster or something? If it's just glued down, I'm probably stuffed, aren't I? :-(
Thanks David