Hi all.
Great site. I learn a lot just from reaqding all your comments. Here is a question for you on a house built in 1910. While in the middle of removing the massive concrete mud bed from my second floor 6x10 bathroom (re-tiling the floor), my pounding produced a leak from a trap that is connected to my shower pan. I was being careful but I suspected this would happen anyway as the bonds around the trap look like some kind of silver epoxy/solder over paper. Very odd. What is this? You can see them as big silver blobs on the piping photos. Anyway, the trap now leaks at one of these bonds and I'm guessing I can't just reflow this to seal it. The leak trashed a large section of the ceiling in my living room right under the trap. In the big scheme of things, I'm not so unhappy because my bigger fear was cracking the secondary mud be under the shower floor - which did not happen. So, should I just yank out all this old piping stuff and replace, or can these type of bonds be re-sealed? See my photos. Photo 1 is a picture from under the bathroom in my new living room skylight. Trap on the right, red shower pan on the left. Photo 2 is a picture of the trap from inside the bathroom. Photo 3 is the run from the trap to the stack. Not sure the slope down is correct here.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Great site. I learn a lot just from reaqding all your comments. Here is a question for you on a house built in 1910. While in the middle of removing the massive concrete mud bed from my second floor 6x10 bathroom (re-tiling the floor), my pounding produced a leak from a trap that is connected to my shower pan. I was being careful but I suspected this would happen anyway as the bonds around the trap look like some kind of silver epoxy/solder over paper. Very odd. What is this? You can see them as big silver blobs on the piping photos. Anyway, the trap now leaks at one of these bonds and I'm guessing I can't just reflow this to seal it. The leak trashed a large section of the ceiling in my living room right under the trap. In the big scheme of things, I'm not so unhappy because my bigger fear was cracking the secondary mud be under the shower floor - which did not happen. So, should I just yank out all this old piping stuff and replace, or can these type of bonds be re-sealed? See my photos. Photo 1 is a picture from under the bathroom in my new living room skylight. Trap on the right, red shower pan on the left. Photo 2 is a picture of the trap from inside the bathroom. Photo 3 is the run from the trap to the stack. Not sure the slope down is correct here.
Thanks for any help you can provide.