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    Old basement toilet installation

    If it were me, I'd make sure I knew where the vent is in relation to that drain. If it was originally intended to be a backup floor drain or something, the closest vent might be far away, but regardless of the history, it won't flush well and will make funny noises if it doesn't have enough...
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    Some last miscellaneous basement insulation questions

    1. I don't think it would make much difference. 2. Mixing and matching should work fine. In Michigan, unless this is a really deep basement, it'll get pretty cold out there even quite far down the wall. Make sure if you use the fiberglass that you remove the vapor barrier, as it'll trap...
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    Getting a wye on a horizontal angled just right

    Hi there, I've been putting some drain pipes and fittings together - the specific one I'm working on is a 3" pipe where I'm adding a 3" x 3" x 2" wye fitting that will go off to the lavatory. This pipe will also supply the vent for the toilet as a wet vent. The pipes are in soil under my...
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    Cutting out a wye under my slab

    Just got everything tightened up and it all seems to be working so far - thanks for the help. I definitely plan to wet vent the new bathroom, and I'll make a new thread with the details there once I'm a little closer.
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    Water supply from curb to house in San Diego California

    Keep in mind pex will degrade in sunlight, so anywhere not buried would need extra protection. I recently had my water line replaced with uponor pex-a (buried 2' down) and it went great with a single pipe running the whole span from the meter and right through a concrete wall to the shutoff...
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    Cutting out a wye under my slab

    So - one thing I just noticed is that the main 4" CI pipe is actually a little steeper than I expected. Across the 14" span I'm planning to cut, it drops 5/8" or maybe even 11/16", meaning the drop is slightly more than double the standard 1/4" per foot. I think that means that if the double wye...
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    Cutting out a wye under my slab

    Hi there - was going to make my first cuts into drains actually being used and I figured I would write out my plan here, ensuring a) I have a plan, and b) if I'm about to do something dumb, some nice person here might save me from myself. Sorry if this is a bit long-winded. House is 1959 and...
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    What is all that stuff on this old pipe?

    I found if I just tap it lightly with my rotary hammer, it breaks off in big chunks. I was concerned because the broken off pieces look a lot like the cast iron pipe itself, but if I smash them with a hammer they break down into soil. I guess maybe the rust from the pipe gets into the 1/4" of...
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    What is all that stuff on this old pipe?

    I'm working on adding a new bathroom in my basement, and I've been revealing under my slab, and I've been finding cast iron pipe with rocks embedded in it - it's real dirty so it's hard to tell. Any idea what this stuff is? Is it a sign of bad things to come? Is it something that was there when...
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    When covid makes you DIY, advice on layout…

    Amateur here - would the floor drain need to be upstream of the toilet in a wet vent situation?
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