Hello all,
I am doing a gut renovation on the lower level of my condo and have a question- In the rear of my kitchen was my old laundry/water heater room. The water heater had a drain (?) pipe extending up through the floor which was met by a copper drain pipe coming from the water heater istelf (I am attaching a photo because I am sure I am not explaining this correctly)
We relocated this water heater to another part of the house, and the plumber who did the work for me cut this old pipe (ABS pipe, about 2" diam?) down to floor level (tiles removed) and said that he had sealed it off from underneath when they were doing other work under the slab adding drains in the new locations of the laundry and a new shower in the bathroom I do not smell anything coming from the pipe, although sometimes I swear I can feel cool air coming up from it, but I have to assume he did what he said.
Here is my issue- This area is now going to be part of the kitchen, which is going to be covered in engineered wood or laminate. Before I do that, I will have the floor leveled with a self leveler, but I need to block this drain closer to the surface so that I am not pouring a whole bunch of leveler down it until it reaches floor level. (not to mention that if this pipe is NOT sealed off (and considering what a crappy experience I had with this contractor, I would not be surprised if it was not sealed), I don't want cement going down drains it should not be going down.
So... Can I use some sort of expanding plug to permanently seal this off below the surface so that I can cement over it with the leveler?
If anyone has links to or names of specific products, that would be great.
Thank you all, and I hope what I wrote makes sense to someone!
I am doing a gut renovation on the lower level of my condo and have a question- In the rear of my kitchen was my old laundry/water heater room. The water heater had a drain (?) pipe extending up through the floor which was met by a copper drain pipe coming from the water heater istelf (I am attaching a photo because I am sure I am not explaining this correctly)
We relocated this water heater to another part of the house, and the plumber who did the work for me cut this old pipe (ABS pipe, about 2" diam?) down to floor level (tiles removed) and said that he had sealed it off from underneath when they were doing other work under the slab adding drains in the new locations of the laundry and a new shower in the bathroom I do not smell anything coming from the pipe, although sometimes I swear I can feel cool air coming up from it, but I have to assume he did what he said.
Here is my issue- This area is now going to be part of the kitchen, which is going to be covered in engineered wood or laminate. Before I do that, I will have the floor leveled with a self leveler, but I need to block this drain closer to the surface so that I am not pouring a whole bunch of leveler down it until it reaches floor level. (not to mention that if this pipe is NOT sealed off (and considering what a crappy experience I had with this contractor, I would not be surprised if it was not sealed), I don't want cement going down drains it should not be going down.
So... Can I use some sort of expanding plug to permanently seal this off below the surface so that I can cement over it with the leveler?
If anyone has links to or names of specific products, that would be great.
Thank you all, and I hope what I wrote makes sense to someone!