I would like to add a shower to my existing bathtub. I live in an old house originally built around 1860. The bathtub is working fine. I bought a kit to add a shower to the bathtub. The kit came with a replacement faucet and a loop to hang a shower curtain from - like you would use to add a shower to a clawfoot tub. I do not have a clawfoot tub. My bathtub is on the floor and has two faucet handles and a spout. When I went to try to install the replacement faucet set I found out that it would not fit on my pipes. The faucet set is a 4" center set. I measured the distance between my pipes and it is six inches. I went to a local big box store and a salesperson suggested that if I could remove the spout perhaps I could install a new spout with a diverter that could then have a shower added. Fortunately I was able to able to remove the spout. Unfortunately the replacement spout will not fit as the threads are not fine fine enough or the right size. Apparently the plumbing for my tub is fairly old and things have changed. All I want to be able to do is add a shower to my existing bathtub. It's starting to look like this might be difficult to do because of the age of my tub. Are there 6" center set faucets available with a diverter to use for a shower? Do any of you have any suggestions on how I should proceed? If you have any questions - please let me know. Thank you.

Hi, We started out with wat seemed to be a clog in our sewer. We used a pipe snake and all the drains were clear. We put drain clog material through the sstem and the bathtub would then drain. The toilet was still draining slow and there was a gurgling noise comming from it so we replaced the bowl gasket. It was all draining after that until i turned on the washer and then it backed up in the tub. Does this sound like a clog in the main sewer line or a vaccum problem?