Stephenson
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3000 SF house built in 1995 in Virginia ... generally modern building techniques - including polybutylyne that was completely replaced with CPVC well before we bought the place.
Basement level is walkout to the back - house is on a lake with a septic tank and pump system that pumps liquids about 500 feet back to the front yard area drainage field. A half bath is about 2/3 of the depth of the house from the back wall with a family room and hallway between it and the back wall.
The bathroom did not have a shower or tub, but did have a closet framed in a finished directly in front of the tub - and, shaped and sized about the same as a shower ... I figured no way would be lucky enough to have it stubbed out for shower ... floor and inside closet carpeted with short pile carpeting. I pulled carpeting up and found a 2' square concrete area dead center in the middle of the closet that was poured separate from the remainder of the basement ... so, I tapped on it with framing hammer noting different sound and then whacked the center of the comcrete square.
The center easily tapped out to a round shape with a plastic container with the bottom up - I pulled the container and removed a bucket of sand and stone to find a capped (glued on) 2" (it may be 1 1/2") PVC pipe heading towards the back of the house (there would still be room for the pipe to turn in the middle of floor and go to one of two different waste pipes). Is this a typical "stub out" wherein you wanted a flush floor?
So ... given no plans to review, and planning to make the room a "wet room" with shower tiled with level floor for handicap accessibilty, I was going to remove the remainder of the concrete in order to further investigate ... it's the next step I need help with ... do I just cut off the PVC cap and build up a temp PVC about the height of the future drain and see if it drains - listening along the floor to determine where to?
Any other comments would be very much appreciated!
Basement level is walkout to the back - house is on a lake with a septic tank and pump system that pumps liquids about 500 feet back to the front yard area drainage field. A half bath is about 2/3 of the depth of the house from the back wall with a family room and hallway between it and the back wall.
The bathroom did not have a shower or tub, but did have a closet framed in a finished directly in front of the tub - and, shaped and sized about the same as a shower ... I figured no way would be lucky enough to have it stubbed out for shower ... floor and inside closet carpeted with short pile carpeting. I pulled carpeting up and found a 2' square concrete area dead center in the middle of the closet that was poured separate from the remainder of the basement ... so, I tapped on it with framing hammer noting different sound and then whacked the center of the comcrete square.
The center easily tapped out to a round shape with a plastic container with the bottom up - I pulled the container and removed a bucket of sand and stone to find a capped (glued on) 2" (it may be 1 1/2") PVC pipe heading towards the back of the house (there would still be room for the pipe to turn in the middle of floor and go to one of two different waste pipes). Is this a typical "stub out" wherein you wanted a flush floor?
So ... given no plans to review, and planning to make the room a "wet room" with shower tiled with level floor for handicap accessibilty, I was going to remove the remainder of the concrete in order to further investigate ... it's the next step I need help with ... do I just cut off the PVC cap and build up a temp PVC about the height of the future drain and see if it drains - listening along the floor to determine where to?
Any other comments would be very much appreciated!