Watson524
Member
Hi again,
Given the shower drain issue in my other post, we started looking around my godmother's basement for water drips on the floor and it looks like the washing machine feed lines may be a problem. Hard to say if the dampness on the floor is from condensation or and ACTUAL leak , but either way, I don't like the looks of the copper elbows (ran a rinse cycle and didn't get actual drips but since the insulation up there is damp...)
Anyway, open basement ceiling and drywall that I'd really rather not cut and patch if I can at all avoid it. Copper lines come across basement ceiling, elbow up into the wall and into a washing machine box. Single pull valve at the box. The elbows and what I can see of the vertical copper, particularly on the cold side, are REALLY corroded and green. I don't have enough on the vertical to just cut out the elbow and replace that part so I'd like to go from the shutoff at the box down but I don't know if you can just pull the box, connect pex down into the wall and connect that into the copper? As far as I've seen, those boxes have straps to studs behind the drywall. Do they make any that can be screwed in on the face or anything so you don't have to rip apart drywall do they? Or can I just cut down below, pull the whole thing up, connect the pex and feed it back through and reconnect in the basement?
Just trying to help out an 83 year old so she's not worried about things going south in the basement (she's not mobile enough to go down there)
thanks in advance!
Given the shower drain issue in my other post, we started looking around my godmother's basement for water drips on the floor and it looks like the washing machine feed lines may be a problem. Hard to say if the dampness on the floor is from condensation or and ACTUAL leak , but either way, I don't like the looks of the copper elbows (ran a rinse cycle and didn't get actual drips but since the insulation up there is damp...)
Anyway, open basement ceiling and drywall that I'd really rather not cut and patch if I can at all avoid it. Copper lines come across basement ceiling, elbow up into the wall and into a washing machine box. Single pull valve at the box. The elbows and what I can see of the vertical copper, particularly on the cold side, are REALLY corroded and green. I don't have enough on the vertical to just cut out the elbow and replace that part so I'd like to go from the shutoff at the box down but I don't know if you can just pull the box, connect pex down into the wall and connect that into the copper? As far as I've seen, those boxes have straps to studs behind the drywall. Do they make any that can be screwed in on the face or anything so you don't have to rip apart drywall do they? Or can I just cut down below, pull the whole thing up, connect the pex and feed it back through and reconnect in the basement?
Just trying to help out an 83 year old so she's not worried about things going south in the basement (she's not mobile enough to go down there)
thanks in advance!