Oh No!...what have I done?.....

Rembrandt

Most of you know Mrs Rembrandt and I have been doing a "This Old House" renovation project for several years...so this year the project will be the bathroom on the main level. Gut the walls down to nothing more than studs and pipes, throw out the tub, toilet, and sink...take the flooring to the bone, and now the bad news....

This one bathroom project has become 3 bathrooms....since the plumbing needs replaced, it naturally is attached to the upper level bath and the basement bath....hard to do one without doing all....so now we remove all cast iron sewer vents and pipes, tear up concrete flooring in the basement so new PVC sewer lines can be run. Oh, by the way...since we're replacing "this"...we really should replace "that" and so forth. There goes my next gun down the "drain"...literally.......

Big Sky Redneck

I feel for ya, this house needs insulation. We thought about renting the machine to "blow it in" but go to thinking, this place has plaster and lathe walls, so why not just rip that out and replace with drywall, ohh and while the walls are out, replace the wiring, ohh and might as well do the plumbing, might as well run all ne phone lines and jacks, might as well run all that catgory 5 wire with wall jacks also, while we are at it, run all the TV cable thru the walls with wall jacks, then the floor needs replaced because it is saggin in the dining room and will not match the new walls, if we rewire, well I need ot rewire the cieling lights and fans. And the list goes on and on.

So in ther words, the house still aint insulated! Probably won't be for a long time either!

woodsrunner

I hear ya, I just took a small loan against my 401k, figuring I'd be paying myself better than the market is. Paid off a bunch of high interest credit cards and had about a grand left over. I thought I was finally going to get the Sharps replica I've been coveting for so long. Then while repairing some winter damage, I discovered the carpenter ant damage. I guess the Sharps waits a couple more years.

Woods

How big a boy are ya?

pickenup

I bought the house next door to me a few years ago, and have been "fixing" it every since. Same thing happend to me. You have to fix this when you only wanted to do that. It is also a pay as you go type, which slows it down some. The living room is 17x26 and I have my woodworking shop set up in it. Living room is finished by the way. I will not admit to dragging my feet, but when I get the house done, so that we can move in. I will loose the best wood shop I ever had.

If I knew then, what I know now.

competentone

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...so now we remove all cast iron sewer vents and pipes, tear up concrete flooring in the basement so new PVC sewer lines can be run.......


One suggestion, if the lines are running through the wall near other living space (like a dining room, bedroom, office, etc.) consider using cast iron drain pipe again.

PVC is easier to work with, but it lets the noise through. Sometimes you don't want to here the "flush" of the toilet upstairs as the water surges through the wall. The cast iron drain pipe in the wall will keep things quiet--you just need to use lengths of it where noise might be a problem; PVC is fine for the rest.

Joe

k.stanonik

Good luck buddy, bought my this old house 6 yrs ago and 2 people living here, well 4 yrs ago it became 1 resident and nicer plans, cant wait for the whirlpool tub to come in.