Drivesme
New Member
OK, I've got vintage 1924 plumbing and it turns out that stuff is just to be looked at and not touched!
I did some re-routing of my kitchen and washing machine drain as they did not go into the sewer lines but out to a leach field, I think that where they went anyway.(who knows) All that went well but in the process my tub/shower drain decided to start leaking at the old lead P trap that looked like a coffee can. (you should see this thing!) so I replaced the line and the P trap with ABS, all should have been good, but no! It is now leaking at what I think is called a 'wipe joint' on the lead pipe the goes into the cast iron waste stack! Looks like it has done this before, I'm guessing that sometime in the Kennedy/Johnson administration someone has put some white stuff (white lead?) on that joint to seal it up.
I really do not what to get into that lead/okum connection, no, I REALLY don't want to get in to that. So I was wondering if I could maybe solder that joint???
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks.
Mark
I did some re-routing of my kitchen and washing machine drain as they did not go into the sewer lines but out to a leach field, I think that where they went anyway.(who knows) All that went well but in the process my tub/shower drain decided to start leaking at the old lead P trap that looked like a coffee can. (you should see this thing!) so I replaced the line and the P trap with ABS, all should have been good, but no! It is now leaking at what I think is called a 'wipe joint' on the lead pipe the goes into the cast iron waste stack! Looks like it has done this before, I'm guessing that sometime in the Kennedy/Johnson administration someone has put some white stuff (white lead?) on that joint to seal it up.
I really do not what to get into that lead/okum connection, no, I REALLY don't want to get in to that. So I was wondering if I could maybe solder that joint???
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks.
Mark