Posted: 2/18/2017 11:41:30 PM EDT
Went to look at a house today. Was clearly a nicely done flip. Walked into the garage and saw this laying there in the trash. Is this a poop pipe? They were redoing the downstairs shitter. Guessing they yanked this out then and replaced it?
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That is a cast iron drain line serving a water closet and a lavatory. The arm for the lavatory is galvanized. It was changed out due to tuberculotion built up in the pipe from rust, soap scum, and toilet waste.
Most likely the vent in the attic and through the roof is still cast iron as it is not bad because it is a dry vent. |
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That is a cast iron drain line serving a water closet and a lavatory. The arm for the lavatory is galvanized. It was changed out due to tuberculotion built up in the pipe from rust, soap scum, and toilet waste. Most likely the vent in the attic and through the roof is still cast iron as it is not bad because it is a dry vent. This. Or it was fractured and leaking. |
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Yes, that is a cast iron waste line. OP, don't worry about why it is gone, just be thankful that someone took care of the problem for you. |
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Also. Cast Iron is a bitch to work on. Getting a screw-jack chain wheel cutter etc. is such a pita, it's often easier to just yank everything out but a stub where it enters the basement wall or a slab and just re-do the whole thing in PVC. It weighs a ton, unless you're working on a horizontal piece of it, it's sometimes a two-man job to hold it in place until you get your first few tightenings on it. And then the cast iron might not crack in a clean line or even something remotely resembling a circle.
My house is an older 1930's "Milwaukee Bungalow", and I have drain weepers around my foundation that also go into the sanitary line, and one really rainy March day when it rained non-stop, and the ground was frozen preventing absorption, the roots from a tree by the street finally choked it off, and I didn't even have a proper cleanout that we could put a rooter snake into. So I had to cut 18" out of the pipe, and graft a PVC cleanout into it. I have no idea if it's code. Although I did know enough that I had to put cast iron floor joist hangers on everything above it first. Might be a time-bomb waiting if/when I ever want to sell this place and move. Anything like the OP's photo above, it's GREAT that they yanked any of the old cast iron out for you, and it's not really some sign of some looming trouble. "Looming trouble" might be if they'd had to jackhammer or cut out any of the concrete slab in the basement, but there's no sign they'd done anything out in the yard all the way to the street and the municipal hookup. |
| Looks like somebody replaced a bunch of cast iron pipe. Last one I did like that each of those hubs got busted with a hammer and the lead saved. I certaianly didnt leave it on site. The cast has little or no scrap value unless I get a dump truck load. But the lead in the joints plus all the lead water line we replace has value now to reloaders and people who cast thier own bullets. |
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Went to look at a house today. Was clearly a nicely done flip. Walked into the garage and saw this laying there in the trash. Is this a poop pipe? They were redoing the downstairs shitter. Guessing they yanked this out then and replaced it? https://preview.ibb.co/eSPAVa/IMG_20170218_111518.jpg Old house? Either cheaper or the only conscionable thing to do is replace the whole line. Pipes rot from the inside. |
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Looks like somebody replaced a bunch of cast iron pipe. Last one I did like that each of those hubs got busted with a hammer and the lead saved. I certaianly didnt leave it on site. The cast has little or no scrap value unless I get a dump truck load. But the lead in the joints plus all the lead water line we replace has value now to reloaders and people who cast thier own bullets. I found trying to get the lead out of the oakum and filth to be highly distasteful myself, now cast lead traps and lead pipe, I am on that stuff like nobody's business |