Can I cut through my fiberglass shower basin to make the hole bigger?
We recently moved into a house that the basement shower drain pipe is detached from the drain hole by about an inch and also slightly off center. We have gotten several plumbers to look at it and they want to rip up the entire shower to reconnect it.
The shower has been like this for at least several years (according to the neighbors) and looking down with a flashlight you can see rocks and hair from past showers. There is no water build-up or strange smells coming from the opening. Just a smell of earth. Water may just have been draining into the ground though I am not positive.
I'm wondering if I can cut through the shower basin around the drain, basically making the hole bigger so I can add some sort of coupling from the pipe to the drain. I would then just buy some sort of bigger drain cover or something.
The basement shower is a neo-angle shower with a fiberglass basin and metal and glass walls/door.
Does this sound possible? Or is their some other quick-fix solution?
Thanks,
Margaret