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I was over my parent's place this weekend and my dad sent me down to the basement to checkout their pipe hangers. It turns out that the majority of the plastic J pipe hangers holding the heating pipes up are broken. The heat pipes are mostly 1" and make about a 70 foot run (long long ranch)...

HJ, Thanks for sharing your knowledge. All of the second floor valves are like that. They'll probably stay that way until I get really bored in the summertime. Then maybe I'll attempt to replace them with something more efficient. It would have to be above the floor and therefore would make...

Like I said, my local plumbing shop carries everything one could ever need. Have you stopped by your local plumbing supply house? Where are you located? -Gil

I buy most of my fittings from the local plumbing supply house. -Gil

You follow me correctly the stub of pipe would stick up 1 1/4" and the flange would be solvent welded to that stub.

The distance from the top of the elbow to the top of the floor ranges from 1.25 to 1.5 inches. Therefore the only amount of pipe that can be put in above the elbow is 1.25 inches, and the only amount of flange which can be below the floor around the 3" pipe is 1.25 inches. Either way seems like...

Thanks. I've got an over the pipe type flange and some 3" pipe. I'm going to have to cut the length of the flange down to actually fit, I guess that's okay?

Local supply shop said they had never heard of such fitting. They stock souix chief fittings. Any idea where I can get the fitting you mention?

Awesome thanks! I'll stop by the local plumbing supply house. They make one that'll fit a 3" elbow ?

We had our bathroom roughed in, then tiled. When all's said and done we're left with a 3" elbow that's 1.25" below the grade of the floor. I have a flange that will fit into the 3" elbow, but it seems like only a depth of 1/2 to 3/4" of PVC will be glued. The plumbing was planned for 1/4" backer...

The layout was the original to the house, or at least was galvanized drain pipe and some brass water pipes. The drain for the tub is at that end because there is a window on the other end of the tub. We decided to keep the layout the same, but it was brought up to code.

Wally, The house was built in 1928-29 and the radiators/piping going to them appears to be original. I'm not sure why they used them upstairs either. I have to replace one of the radiators, and the valve has some issue and is no longer available. I guess I'll just plumb the replacement in a...

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All of the hot water radiators on the second floor of our house (1929 construction) have a valve, then a tee on the same side of the radiator. The water comes in from the vale, through a center passage of the tee and into the radiator. I assume the cold water is then forced out through the...

After reading some posts I'm going to work on a 3D diagram of this and post it sometime soon.

Hi There, My wife and I are redoing our upstairs bathroom due to several mistakes made by the prior owners. The most major of which was cutting two floor joists in half in order to perform a plumbing repair: ! Here's a horrible drawing of the bathroom layout and the plumbing the way that...