First time posting on this informative forum, please help with your advice.
our house has new copper pipes throughout the basement from meter to water heater, out to basement bath, laundry, etc. vertical pipes going up two floors to the bathroom in question are galvanized and they are connected to new(er) copper plumbing on the second floor so our weak link are vertical pipes. We are in a need to replace our bath into a walk in shower and will have to gut the entire bathroom. The issue is that our pipes going up travel through 8 inches of concrete (our basement ceiling is not wood), through a wall (which will need to be busted) in another powder room on 1st floor, end up below a wooden floor landing on the second floor (accessible through the ceiling on first floor worst case to avoid ripping up hardwood floor). The contractor is a big copper fan and doesn’t want to use anything else and feels good about the job.
1. would Plex be easier? Well, yes and will cause less destruction but what are your thoughts? It also means I have to find someone else because he doesn’t work with it.
2. I have a laundry chute from second floor to basement which we do use, do plumbing codes allow pipe runs? In this case we’ll still have to “pipe” through a small closet to get to the bathroom He tells me no and I think he’s right but I see pipes in Chicago buildings in bathrooms all the time in old buildings. Maybe forget I even asked this question?
3. Is there a way to clean or rod out these pipes or would it weaken them to a point of problems and leaks, the house is 70 years old. Thanks guys.
our house has new copper pipes throughout the basement from meter to water heater, out to basement bath, laundry, etc. vertical pipes going up two floors to the bathroom in question are galvanized and they are connected to new(er) copper plumbing on the second floor so our weak link are vertical pipes. We are in a need to replace our bath into a walk in shower and will have to gut the entire bathroom. The issue is that our pipes going up travel through 8 inches of concrete (our basement ceiling is not wood), through a wall (which will need to be busted) in another powder room on 1st floor, end up below a wooden floor landing on the second floor (accessible through the ceiling on first floor worst case to avoid ripping up hardwood floor). The contractor is a big copper fan and doesn’t want to use anything else and feels good about the job.
1. would Plex be easier? Well, yes and will cause less destruction but what are your thoughts? It also means I have to find someone else because he doesn’t work with it.
2. I have a laundry chute from second floor to basement which we do use, do plumbing codes allow pipe runs? In this case we’ll still have to “pipe” through a small closet to get to the bathroom He tells me no and I think he’s right but I see pipes in Chicago buildings in bathrooms all the time in old buildings. Maybe forget I even asked this question?
3. Is there a way to clean or rod out these pipes or would it weaken them to a point of problems and leaks, the house is 70 years old. Thanks guys.
