Thank You
Thank you gentleman for your replies!
Er,..I slapped that duct tape on last night after I cut out the first of many sections to come. I have a photo that I'll add that shows why I couldn't get a snake down that lav sink. The duct tape is very temporarily...it was dripping.
This palace is still a construction site. Most of the pipes have been or are still dry. I just got the pump running after many months. I totally demo'd a mstr bath so those pipes are just capped off.
Ok, so w/ all this galvanized pipe, I am planning on demo'ing and replace w/ plastic pvc/cpvc. The basement is copper, probably replaced galvanized many years before since it was accessible. Now i'll do in the wall/floor stuff as current owner. I am hoping the cast iron soil/vent runs (the big ones) are ok to leave. They look heavy.
Foundation?? Do you mean beef up the wood structure? Sister on some 2X lumber? There is a 1/4" piece of flat iron that was sistered onto the severly cutout joist under tub for that damn drum trap when house was built. Maybe doesn't show in my photos.
Or by foundation, do you mean start over w/ all piping? Again, I think what you see is the bulk of the galvanized piping still left in this house. The master bath I am re-running cuz I wanna run it surface mount on the wall/ceiling. (Not PVC, but some attractive pipe for exposed work. Might have to concur sweating for that). Why? Cause the dirt & unheated crawlspace that it is currently running thru is creepy and very inaccessible. I'll leave the mstr bath soil & vent alone, on far outside wall. (Maybe I can make that accessible from the outside, on back of house. Anyway, that is another battle for another day).
I copy link and paste into this post, like below. When I post, first it is words & #'s but after post is posted, then it becomes a visual photo. Or, another option is to just post a different style link and then people click on it and then they see photo.
Sorry if that was confusing but I can't remember some of the exact terms. I'll do it now for the unsnakeable drain pipe and it will refresh my memory.