Ok, so here goes- a year and 1/2 ago my wife (then fiance') and her dad bought this house- 20 yrs old, not too bad a shape (we hired an inspector) so there were no surprises - we put on a new roof, new furnace, heat pump, on demand hot water etc. ok, all that's fine. What our seller did was buy this house, fix it up for six months then sell it- we knew it was a "flipper" but its basically sound. Or its sound whereever he didn't do any work!!!!!
The basement suite? yup - he used FREAKIN PLASTIC PIPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so there's no water coming outa the sink faucet this morning (we're having a deep freeze here right now) called a plumber, he said if its copper he could come over and thaw it out- plastic? good luck! - grrrrrrr
so I cut away the drywall under the sink to try to trace where the lines go -
well they come from the right, but wait! they do a "U" turn! back to the left! thru a stud and then straight up! and the insulation in the wall??? it goes straight up too - for a foot!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sigh........
so I went into the bathroom ten feet away and put a small heater under the sink (in the cabinet) cause where the pipes come out they got a big hole- and you can feel the cold air coming thru - so 1/2 hr of a heater blasting hot air in that- tada! we now have running water!!!!!
at a certain point I'm gonna have to cut away the sheetrock and put insulation in- meantime I'm gonna try to access the pipes from overhead and use some spray foam.
k, lunch time. I'm done
Mac!!
The basement suite? yup - he used FREAKIN PLASTIC PIPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so there's no water coming outa the sink faucet this morning (we're having a deep freeze here right now) called a plumber, he said if its copper he could come over and thaw it out- plastic? good luck! - grrrrrrr
so I cut away the drywall under the sink to try to trace where the lines go -
well they come from the right, but wait! they do a "U" turn! back to the left! thru a stud and then straight up! and the insulation in the wall??? it goes straight up too - for a foot!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sigh........
so I went into the bathroom ten feet away and put a small heater under the sink (in the cabinet) cause where the pipes come out they got a big hole- and you can feel the cold air coming thru - so 1/2 hr of a heater blasting hot air in that- tada! we now have running water!!!!!
at a certain point I'm gonna have to cut away the sheetrock and put insulation in- meantime I'm gonna try to access the pipes from overhead and use some spray foam.
k, lunch time. I'm done
Mac!!