Plumbing Marathon – Part One
October 9, 2006
With the water meter moved and the laundry tub installed, the time had arrived to address the plumbing; on this night we were going to fix all the waste pipes. Whoever had installed the original waste pipes had done a good job; in fact, all of the plumbing in the house was done well, it just wasn’t done very elegantly. Rather then try to hide pipes in the walls or ceiling, all of the plumbing had been installed without camouflage, residing below the floor joists, rather then between them, (as seen in the bathroom reno) and travelling from point A to B in the most direct route possible. The previous owners had built enormous bulkheads to conceal the pipes, but that only perpetuated their ugliness, and limited head room.
I took a trip to the hardware store and purchased every possible fitting I could imagine, in every size, and in triplicate. (…as we have young children, we typically do all of our work in the evenings – there is nothing more disparaging then ripping the house apart only to discover at 1:00a.m. that you are missing an integral piece.) Reciprocating saw in hand, I slashed through the first drain pipe at 8:00p.m., and had finished cutting out all of the pipes at 8:03p.m.
Waste pipes done, supply lines to go!
[…] I turned of the water main, opened the taps on the laundry tub as well as the rest of the taps in the house, and smugly watched as all of the water was sucked away by my new pump. This small victory made up for the hell I endured the night before. […]
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