Got the walls off a little more, and had to sister the studs under the window. The studs were also cut into to allow for plumbing. You can see the old pipes still in the wall (the big 2" one, and one behind the lathe in the little hole). These pipes are no longer used, and it took some work to get them free. A 24"chain pipe wrench along with a giant regular pipe wrench to get it all free. It ran up to the roof where it vented, but none of it was connected to the stack, so I took it all out.
After we got the pipes out we had to reinforce the studs. You can see where the short studs are cut into again to allow for the waste water pipes, and how I suspended the vent pipe so I can remove it later. I hope I can remove it later.
Here is the room from the door. You can see the part of the subfloor I replaced. The white bucket is covering up the toilet flange so the neighborhood fumes dont fill up my house.
Here is a close up of the replaced subfloor surrounding the toilet flange, and going under the wall into the closet in the next room. Its not very pretty and ideally it would be one solid piece, but since the subfloor ship-lap was 80% removed for plumbing I had to get something in under the bottom plate which meant cutting a smaller piece that would slide in. And by slide, I mean get the shit pounded out of it.
A little better view of the replaced floor. You can see into the next room beyond the stack. Thanks Robert for soldering up the new copper for the toilet.
Looking up from the basement. I added the diagonal support because the one that was there originally was cut in half to make room for the stack. The diagonal piece is just a 2x4 with two 2x4 braces unerneath. All the pieces were toenailed in. (Cheap-o Harbor Freight nail gun, has worked well so far, but dang it is loud. ) I hope this is enough, or a good idea. Since there was nothing there before, I have a hard time believing it will ruin anything.
This is from the closet in the next room. This part of the floor was not rotted, but it was the end of the rotten piece from under the toilet. Had to remove the whole board because what was left after cutting out the bad parts was only a triangle, and barely there.
You are kickin' ass, amigo. I'm still trying to get a pass to leave the state from D. You still need a sledgehammer, right?
ReplyDeleteWhich Robert is the one doing all of your soldering? Is that my man Shook? Who knew? In any case, looks like it's coming along well. I'm always pretty sketched out on code when it comes to cutting holes in weight-bearing boards, but it looks like you're pretty good at tacking in new lumber along side the old. Sure looks like you could use a sledgehammer!
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