Why is there a drain on the side of the tub?
In your home, the overflow drain is inserted to prevent water from spilling out if the faucet is left on or if the water level in the tub is too full before you get in.
What is the difference between a left hand tub and a right hand tub?
Right handed or left handed tub refers to the drain orientation of your tub. If the drain is to your right you have a right handed tub, and if the drain is on your left you have a left handed tub.
Where is the drain and faucet on a walk in shower?
The existing tub enclosure has the faucet and drain on the left side as you are facing it. I thought about pulling out the tub, pouring a shower pan, tiling it, and making it a walk-in shower but I would have to enter from the left. This made me think I needed to move the controls and drain to the right.
Can a sink drain be connected to a bathtub drain?
Even if I have to re-vent the sink drain, it would be far easier to run a new 1.5″ pipe up the open wall and across above the ceiling (big crawlspace available) to join the existing vent. I’d do that any day over notching out all those studs.
Is it OK to have a drain at one end of the shower?
There are tub conversion pans you can buy that might work out for you, but while maybe fast, they are not inexpensive (many of them are designed to take tile). Having a drain at one end may end up working best if you incorporate a linear drain, but neither the drain nor the grate/cover for them is inexpensive ($400-600 isn’t unusual or more).
Is there a drain pipe between the shower and the vanity?
It used to have a big shower in it and a vanity on the wall opposite the shower; the shower used a floor drain (obviously) and the vanity sink had a long sloping pipe to a vented drain pipe in the adjoining wall. The new layout puts the vanity and new tub/shower on the same wall right next to each other.
