Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Adventures in plumbing

Today's fun task was routing 60 feet of drain pipe around the basement walls to get from the new bathroom to the existing sewer stack. It involved drilling through a couple of cinder block walls with a hefty hammer drill. Doug excelled at fabricating three rather complicated intersections of existing and new pipe. It took all day, but we managed to get it all put together in a way we think/hope the plumbing inspector will like. And, at least so far, there are no leaks...

Jim cutting through the first wall


Doug proudly demonstrating his first connection masterpiece


Doug and Jim are ready to make the final connection


When all else fails, use a bigger .... wrench. Fortunately, Neil had an absolutely enormous pipe wrench, which was just what we needed to tighten down the connection into the existing plumbing.


I didn't get a picture, but you should have seen Justin's smile when Neil showed him the wrench ;-)

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