Plumb It Right!
Which means more work for me so I don't have to pay for more labor when the contractors come in. This is both good and bad. I have things planned out for this weekends destruction but now I'm adding a task. A task which I had not anticipated and ever dreamed I would be doing. ... Save where you can though :-)
I met with the plumber this afternoon to discus our rough-in ideas for the second floor bathroom. Most ideas and plans were straight forward and easy for him to see. Drains for shower and tub, hot and cold pipe in correct spots etc. Alot of our discussion was about the soil stack (see wikipedia Domestic water system). The PO left us with this as their solution to not removing the cast iron stack and doing things correctly.
Which leads us to my added project for the next two weeks. Removing the original cast iron to make way for the new soil stack. The plumber and I were in a bit of discussion as to weather or not the current soil stack was actually vented. I know that there is a vent going through the roof but from our look today it actually might be the original cast iron. I will be removing the box-in and copper first then digging into the cast iron.
While the plumber was here I also cornered him about my future AC project. I will be installing a SpacePak system mostly myself and I wanted to verify that he would be able to install and connect the outside condenser unit.
Comments
what is a soil stack?
Posted by: mom | May 10, 2006 12:53 AM
please click on the Wikipedia link in the post.
in short it is the main part of the system that carries waste out of your house.
Posted by: kpf | May 10, 2006 5:13 PM