When An Installer Puts In A New Bathroom Tile Floor Do They Take Up The Vanity As Well As The Toilet?
I am thinking of keeping my vanity and redoing it but I need to get a new tile floor in. It appears that the vanity is under the old flooring. How much more will it cost to have the installer take up the vanity to put in flooring and then put back or is this something a plumber needs to do? Or to make it easy as possible, I could donate the vanity to ReStore and have a new one installed once the flooring is laid. Not sure what is the best way to go. Any ideas?
ideally, you want the new tile to go under the vanity. If down the road you want to replace that vanity, the size may not be the same. How much it will cost to remove it, depends on the person who does it and how hard it is to get it out. Also are you removing the old flooring? I would intall the new tub before the new floor because, you may mar the new floor getting the tub installed, and if you are tiling the floor you want it flush with the tub, not under the tub because it could crack.
In conclusion, to do the whole thing right, remove the tub, get new tub installed, remove vanity and toilet, ripup old flooring, install new subfloor if needed(usually the existing has water damage) and then get new floor laid, put back vanity and toilet.
Not easy, but the right way to do it.
Usually they don’t take up the vanity unless you are going to replace it anyway. If you think at some time you will replace the vanity with a smaller or differnt shaped one, then you should take it out and do under it, so the new unit won’t expose untiled floor. tub probably would be done before the floor, since it is most likely going to stay longer than the floor is.
Whatever is directly resting on the floor should be removed and gotten rid of before the new tile is laid.
Once the new tile is laid, then the new vanity and tub can be laid.
I’m more of a shower person myself.
I recently got my bathroom floor tiled and the shower too! They didn’t have to remove the toilet to put the new flooring down nor the tub. They tried to remove the toilet but the old flooring was raised over it and it was wedged down in the floor, so they worked around it. I didn’t get a new tub because the one I had was installed about three years ago.
If you don’t want new fixtures, they can work around the old bathroom fixtures but normally the toilet need to be raised and vanity installed before they put the flooring.
I didn’t get a new vanity but I wanted one. The contractor told me, I should have told him I wanted a new vanity before they started the work because now the tile is set around the old one. The new one (vanity) would have different measurements and the flooring would have to cater to that new one. They would have had to do the floor again. So, I am stuck with my old vanity because I didn’t speak up.