Re: Drain for bath through tiled floor

Sep 05, 2003 1 Replies


I need to make a 40mm hole through the bathroom floor to couple the


> outlet from the bath to the drain. But the floor is ceramic tile, 9mm
> ply and 22mm pine and I don't know where the drain pipe is from the
> top. I can get under the floor but with difficulty - ie there's about
> 18 inches clearance.
>
> Anyone suggest how to drill through the wood and the ceramic tile -
> and take into account that there might be the odd nail around or screw
> holding the ply to the original flooring.
>
> Rob

Is the bath already in place ?


Hmm - I should have said that the bath can be moved. It's a good old fashioned confortable CI bath but at the moment its sitting effectively on rollers so that I can move it around.

My difficulty is that I don't want to drill blindly from the top but drilling from the underside could equally be difficult. I'm wondering about attaching a chunk of 'iron' under the floor at the right point and trying to detect it with a nail detector.

Rob

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