mrordinary
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Hoping that I didn't create the crack when I removed a 2x4 near it. I think this happened over time; the bathroom is in the basement and a 5 foot vent stack takes a 90 degree turn and goes through the tericotta block. The house is 1929 and the basement bathroom has true dimensional framing so it has been there a while.
I believe I also had what is called a wet vent because the faucet drained into the vent (I don't think that is legal). A few feet away is the toilet. The toilet has always lost water and doesn't seem to flush well. So perhaps there the broken vent was a factor? Also I always felt there was a sewer smell in the basement..especially when the toilet lost water.
Anyway I figured I could put some filler to seal the cast iron, but that will probably fail and I have no idea if the crack goes under the concrete. (I am guessing it is a "T") A linear path to the outside and the top part to the vent that is broken.
I was thinking I could try to get a pipe fit into the cast iron where it would break the existing pipe, but I think you can't have it go to a hub? The other option is to dig up the concrete and then take out the pipe from whatever T-section or component it is connected to and then use a fernco coupler from there? No idea if you can put a fernco over a T or whatever hub I have. Maybe I even have to dig up and remove the toilet and run a PVC under there to the trap to wherever it connects and then vent out attaching a pvc coupler to the vertical cast iron stack?
BACKGROUND FOR PIPING
Some background that may help you determine how my pipes connect... In a clog outside several years ago, my bathroom toilet was the point of least resistance and the bowl almost overflowed with sewage. (If there is a T like I think there is and if there was a crack, then wouldn't it have seeped out there? Or maybe the crack is new.
In a second clog a plumber said I have a weird plumbing situation.. 2 U traps underground. One that goes outside and one that seemed to go into the bathroom and goes through my basement and goes up another cast iron vertical stack to my 1st floor bathroom.
1 last bit of information, it seems like they replaced the outside cast iron or orangeburg ( i would assume it was cast iron) a while ago, but the transition into the house to PVC never happened.
I am guessing you are going to tell me that I need to break all the concrete and put pvc everywhere?
All I wanted to do was remodel the bathroom!!
I believe I also had what is called a wet vent because the faucet drained into the vent (I don't think that is legal). A few feet away is the toilet. The toilet has always lost water and doesn't seem to flush well. So perhaps there the broken vent was a factor? Also I always felt there was a sewer smell in the basement..especially when the toilet lost water.
Anyway I figured I could put some filler to seal the cast iron, but that will probably fail and I have no idea if the crack goes under the concrete. (I am guessing it is a "T") A linear path to the outside and the top part to the vent that is broken.
I was thinking I could try to get a pipe fit into the cast iron where it would break the existing pipe, but I think you can't have it go to a hub? The other option is to dig up the concrete and then take out the pipe from whatever T-section or component it is connected to and then use a fernco coupler from there? No idea if you can put a fernco over a T or whatever hub I have. Maybe I even have to dig up and remove the toilet and run a PVC under there to the trap to wherever it connects and then vent out attaching a pvc coupler to the vertical cast iron stack?
BACKGROUND FOR PIPING
Some background that may help you determine how my pipes connect... In a clog outside several years ago, my bathroom toilet was the point of least resistance and the bowl almost overflowed with sewage. (If there is a T like I think there is and if there was a crack, then wouldn't it have seeped out there? Or maybe the crack is new.
In a second clog a plumber said I have a weird plumbing situation.. 2 U traps underground. One that goes outside and one that seemed to go into the bathroom and goes through my basement and goes up another cast iron vertical stack to my 1st floor bathroom.
1 last bit of information, it seems like they replaced the outside cast iron or orangeburg ( i would assume it was cast iron) a while ago, but the transition into the house to PVC never happened.
I am guessing you are going to tell me that I need to break all the concrete and put pvc everywhere?
All I wanted to do was remodel the bathroom!!
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