How to Replace a Bathroom Vanity | This Old House

all right katie time to get to work we need to get rid of this countertop the sink the vanity and this electrical outlet right here on the side that's the only one in the bathroom so i'd really like to keep it if we can all right then we'll disconnect that and see if we can put it back into the new van but i want you to do a lot of the work today so why don't you dive under there and there's two shutoff valves just turn them clockwise to the right and shut the water off now this is a self-riming sink which means the only thing that holds it to the countertop is some caulking i want to take a razor knife and just to relieve that caulking so we can pop it out of there all right let's see if i can fry this up with a flat bar now the countertop is screwed to the base so there's a series of screws i'm going to remove and we can take the countertop right out all right okay this is wedged in so we gotta sort of work it keep it square keep coming keep coming keep coming yeah good that makes us be able to get it out of here now the only thing still holding the vanity in place is the hot and the cold piping and this electrical wire to make it easy i'm just going to cut the floor of the vanity out all right here is our new vanity base just pass me the old drawer would you now the old vanity had nice narrow drawers the new ones are much wider that's good news for you but it's bad news for me because these drawers block where the hot and the coal line come up through the floor so that means i've got to re-pipe these over so they come up on this side and that means going to the basement and turn off the water all right katie there's one more modification we have to do you can see the two copper lines are going to fit pretty good right there but look at this this drain line coming out of the wall is going to hit this backer piece so i'm going to notch the back of that okay good now what i've also done is to rough in for our old electrical outlet i drill four pilot holes and with the jigsaw i cut out the opening and once that outlet is in place i can secure it to the cabinet using these bars madison bars they call them has two tabs bend them over all right screw their face plate on and it's time to go back to plumbing now we need to think about securing our vanity cabinet to the wall so i've got a high speed drill bit and go through the cabinet in two places once i've drilled those holes i'm going to take a masonry bit to go through the ceramic tile install some anchors now to hold the countertop down to the vanity i want you to put a silicone bead right along the top okay okay oh that's going to fit nice so the new shutoffs are in and they're holding and i've already made my connection to the hot water supply i'm using a stainless steel braided connection and the connections here are called compression connections so put that in and turn it clockwise all right so our hot and cold connections are made and now it's time to make up this drain connection i'm running the new pop-up assembly in here so all it needs is a glue connection right here all right katie i'm going to use a plumber's putty there just hold that just try to catch that thread just you see it okay good now when i tighten the nut up down here you're gonna see that putty squeeze out all right katie it is all yours give it a try all right wow it works great and it's such an improvement over the last one thank you so much richard my pleasure

Channel: This Old House

Views: 502,661

Keywords: This Old House, Ask This Old House, DIY, Home Improvement, DIY Ideas, Renovation, Renovation Ideas, How To Fix, How To Install, How To Build, Richard Trethewey, plumbing, replace bathroom vanity, replace vanity, install vanity, install bath vanity, bathroom vanity, Cleaning, Construction, Design, Installation, Repair, Vanity, Inc, Interior, Interior design, Kitchen, Today, Episode

Id: Oq1pkZD7DGo

Length: 4min 6sec (246 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 27 2013