Pghsebring
DIY Member
So i'm trying to remodel the bathroom, i finally get the cast iron stack out of the floor. The other two stacks in the house were barely cemented into the middle of a hole in the floor - which ended up being 4" terra cotta 90s. So in those two cases i got a couple of donuts and all was good.
I assumed this one was the same - but i couldn't get the stack out - they really cemented this one in good. When i got it out, i figured out why. They had broken the terra cotta elbow, so they put the stack in there, cemented it in with as much cement as they could, a couple of inches worth. I can't imagine what has been flowing under my house...the back side of the elbow is just...missing...roots and crap growing, i have no idea how all my plumbing wasn't backed up worse than it was...
So it looks like its time to cut up my basement floor. It is a normal concrete floor. My question is, assuming just the 4" elbow is broken, how big of an area would you saw up and break out? My goal is to get to the straight 4" terra cotta and put a fernco (or shielded fernco?) on some new 4" pipe and a new 4" elbow, right?
PS. Any chance home insurance covers this?
PPS. If i'm breaking this crap up, how much extra work to put in plumbing for a basement bathroom? Hard part is breaking up the floor, right?
I assumed this one was the same - but i couldn't get the stack out - they really cemented this one in good. When i got it out, i figured out why. They had broken the terra cotta elbow, so they put the stack in there, cemented it in with as much cement as they could, a couple of inches worth. I can't imagine what has been flowing under my house...the back side of the elbow is just...missing...roots and crap growing, i have no idea how all my plumbing wasn't backed up worse than it was...
So it looks like its time to cut up my basement floor. It is a normal concrete floor. My question is, assuming just the 4" elbow is broken, how big of an area would you saw up and break out? My goal is to get to the straight 4" terra cotta and put a fernco (or shielded fernco?) on some new 4" pipe and a new 4" elbow, right?
PS. Any chance home insurance covers this?
PPS. If i'm breaking this crap up, how much extra work to put in plumbing for a basement bathroom? Hard part is breaking up the floor, right?