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60×48 , awfully big , sounds like a wall will have to move. Tub you have now has a 1,1/2 inch drain. Shower has 2 inch drain, probably in the middle and the tub drain is at one end. Sterling makes a good unit. Get some floor tile mortar and set base in piles of mortar. Make small mounds 3 to 4 inches in diameter and just as tall. Space them so they have room to squish and spread as you set new base. Will make base rock solid. If you do not it will creak and click every time you walk on it. Also new unit is made to be level,plumb and square

Your going tohave to hurry up and get it in so you can take a cold shower to cool down.... Good Luck there DJ.

The Backhoe Or The Shower Stall?

If you have to remove an old tub, sometimes they can be loads of fun to remove.  I had to use a sledge hammer on my cast iron tub to bust it up and remove in sections to get it out the door.  And remember a saws-all is your best friend in remodeling.

YEA.......... I would JUMP on that deal !!! ........... and I would buy the shower too !

Dave H wrote: ummm, if my calculations are right that is 4 by 5 feet. you gonna have to have multi nozzles in that shower room?   let us know how your are gonna get it in there,  surely it is not one piece.

me thunks...it would be easier to just add a space onto the outside of the house for that shower, easier to just add a door than all that other stuff. you can just run the drain pipe out on the ground, puts sum rock all around to make it look like a rock garden. worked for me! oooops….ya'll didn't hear that! I know you gots LOTS of rocks around there. i'd love to take out our tub and puts in one of them sit down walk in tubs, but it's built into the walls of the room and if I take a sledge to it, it will just dent it, it's an iron tub, not cast iron! PffffT! i'll wait for a different house.

I have just replaced a tub with shower surround with a 36"x 60" shower unit. It was a renovation model but came in just 2 sections so it was still a challenge to get the 2 sections into the rather small bathroom and reassembled. I had to cut a hole in the wall of the adjacent room to get behind the shower to complete the reassembly. This allowed me to to pack some premixed concrete as Pat mentioned under the shower after the unit was set in place. I am using one of these multi function shower towers that mount on the inside of the shower and was concerned that the mounting screws into the fibreglass walls wouldn't be secure enough so I glued some 1 x 4 backing on the back where the shower tower is mounted. If you are going to be adding some grab bars you might consider gluing some backing on the back where the grab bars would mount. I used "No More Nails" adhesive. I am just in the process of taping and filling repairs to the surrounding bathroom walls. Not my favourite job. Oh, and the Sawsall made short work of the old tub. Although the shower is set up for a 2" drain I am bushing it down to 1-1/2" to connect to the old tub drain. It has taken me a lot longer than planned.