Hi Terry.....I was referred here by John Bridge Forums. I'm an old charter member there and I got a question.
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Doin' a shower rebuild here in SE Texas. Customer has an old cast drain & snub pipe that extends about 6" above the concrete. I used a hammer-drill to excavate it a bit....but just dug a trench around it. The old drain has what appears to be a sweated flange on it. I need to modify this for a pvc/fha drain to rest on the old concrete....and trust this, it's HARD! I'm assuming I need to whack it with a hammer and break the old bond to the cast pipe. If so, what then? I guess I need to excavate it quite a bit more and find a way to cut it level. Any reccomendations about the best way to do this? Dunno the size of the pipe, but I need to connect it. I was thinkin' I could use an epoxy on the two materials and then fill the gap with morter or thinset to stabilize it. The HO is thinking more about a fernco coupling....but I imagine that'll take quite a bit more chipping out to even access the screws to fasten it. This concrete is a bear and it's killin' me.
What would you do?
Thanks~~Lazarus
oh, PS~~~I was thinking of simply epoxying the drain to the old pipe. (Good, Bad, Ugly?)
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Doin' a shower rebuild here in SE Texas. Customer has an old cast drain & snub pipe that extends about 6" above the concrete. I used a hammer-drill to excavate it a bit....but just dug a trench around it. The old drain has what appears to be a sweated flange on it. I need to modify this for a pvc/fha drain to rest on the old concrete....and trust this, it's HARD! I'm assuming I need to whack it with a hammer and break the old bond to the cast pipe. If so, what then? I guess I need to excavate it quite a bit more and find a way to cut it level. Any reccomendations about the best way to do this? Dunno the size of the pipe, but I need to connect it. I was thinkin' I could use an epoxy on the two materials and then fill the gap with morter or thinset to stabilize it. The HO is thinking more about a fernco coupling....but I imagine that'll take quite a bit more chipping out to even access the screws to fasten it. This concrete is a bear and it's killin' me.
What would you do?
Thanks~~Lazarus
oh, PS~~~I was thinking of simply epoxying the drain to the old pipe. (Good, Bad, Ugly?)
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