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Wall Waterfalls - Part 3

December 20, 2005

Well... the plumber has completely fallen through on me. He won't return my phone calls even when I tell him I have all of the work opened and exposed for him. Looks like I will be doing the work myself.

I'm going to hacksaw parts of the cast iron out in sections (unless I can find someone that has a repricol saw). I will then replace with a PVC line. I'm pretty sure I'll be reusing this connector:

By moving it to the top where the old/good cast iron will meet the PVC. I'll then have a PVC connection on the bottom where the new PVC will meet the slightly older PVC that you see in the above photo.

I've got to get this done because it's completely halted my drywalling work in the kitchen.

After that I'll be tackling my hot water piping which is all sorts of fucked up. Pictures of that to come.

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Plumbing

Wall Waterfalls - Part 3

November 17, 2005

There you have the wall section cut all the way out. Thanks to Mike for letting me borrow his circular saw. Made easy work of the wall.

Called the plumber and rescheduled to pull this out Thanksgiving weekend. Once the PVC is in, we'll have that to be thankful for.

Posted by house at 08:48 AM | Comments (0)

Plumbing

Wall Waterfalls - Part 2

November 15, 2005

I figured it out.

Behold, cracked pipe!

Here's some up close shots.

Here's where the stack makes a 90 degree turn, right above the ceiling.

All of this work leaves the kitchen wall looking like this:

So I might as well tear out the whole wall, insulate it, then drywall it. Much more efficient that way.

Funny that I'm saying this, but the damage isn't as bad as I thought it would be.

Posted by house at 09:26 AM | Comments (4)

Plumbing

Worse than you could ever imagine

October 27, 2005

Well... it looks like there is a leak somewhere in the waste pipe coming from the waste stack in the upstairs bathroom. I'm predicting that it's at the T where the toliet and shower waste lines meet and then go down the kitchen wall and out the sewer line in the basement because last night after taking a shower I went down in the basement and there was a waterfall in the middle of the house. Curious, I then flushed the toliet and water came rushing down so I know it has to do something with the two lines.

I'm probably going to have to tear out the bathroom floor and then
replace everything down to the new plumbing in the basement. This also means pulling out the kitchen wall which was something I thought I could get away with not doing.

Money was tight, but I don't think this is something I can get done without pinching. I called the plumber and the earliest he said he could come and just look at the problem was Saturday. And that was a big maybe.

Damn this house. Damn it to fucking hell.

Posted by house at 10:22 AM | Comments (4)