LT_DIY
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Hello everyone,
I've been having a lot of success with my home remodel by reading this forum, the UPC, and a few books.... until now.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I was removing the 4 inch cast iron drain stack with plans to replace most of it with 3 inch ABS, adapting using a Fernco donut to a short vertical section of the cast iron left in place. The snap cutter sure worked great.
The problem is my unexpected discovery that the cast iron 90 degree long sweep with cleanout that carries the the vertical drain stack out the foundation to the sewer run was broken. As soon as I removed most of the cast iron stack, the sweep visibly broke out of the foundation about an inch, and later fell out. By visual inspection seeing the rust and very wet mud below the break, I can tell its been there a while; this also explains the water marks below it on the foundation wall.
Now what do I do?
I see two options: 1) get a rubber adapter, either donut or coupling and adapt a new ABS long-sweep clean-out at the break. 2) go outside and dig down to the pipe run and make the same connection, with perhaps more room to work. There are probably other options you experienced guys can think of.
I'll attach a couple of pictures to show the situation.
Any recommendations?
Thanks.
I've been having a lot of success with my home remodel by reading this forum, the UPC, and a few books.... until now.
I was removing the 4 inch cast iron drain stack with plans to replace most of it with 3 inch ABS, adapting using a Fernco donut to a short vertical section of the cast iron left in place. The snap cutter sure worked great.
The problem is my unexpected discovery that the cast iron 90 degree long sweep with cleanout that carries the the vertical drain stack out the foundation to the sewer run was broken. As soon as I removed most of the cast iron stack, the sweep visibly broke out of the foundation about an inch, and later fell out. By visual inspection seeing the rust and very wet mud below the break, I can tell its been there a while; this also explains the water marks below it on the foundation wall.
Now what do I do?
![snap_cutter.jpg](https://terrylove.com/images/snap_cutter.jpg)
I see two options: 1) get a rubber adapter, either donut or coupling and adapt a new ABS long-sweep clean-out at the break. 2) go outside and dig down to the pipe run and make the same connection, with perhaps more room to work. There are probably other options you experienced guys can think of.
I'll attach a couple of pictures to show the situation.
Any recommendations?
Thanks.
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