Looks like possibly some walls were removed and the plumbing left hanging.
There is no plumbing reason to have it like that.
There is no plumbing reason to have it like that.
My copper pipes look like Mario world!
We moved into this house built in the 30s and it had an addition in the early 90s. There is an old basement that accesses the crawlspace under the house. The pipes bang and I want to fix it but you can see from the photo, that in the basement the pipes are a hot mess. They are suspended from the ceiling and just kind of hang down unsupported. The ball cock shutoff valves are tangled up in this mess. On the right hand side of this photo they are headed to the addition and again are about 10" lower than the floor joist and unsupported. I want to clean up this whole mess and have everything right up at the floor joist and supported which would also cut out some of the distance the hot water has to travel to the faucets.
When I look at all of this I am very confused as to why it has all these turns? I'm worried that there is some larger concept that I don't understand and that I might screw up some plumbing physics thing that I didn't know about. It is much more likely that this was put together by some DIY guy who didn't know what he was doing (you should see how they built the garage) but I want to be sure before I change all of this. I have done work with copper pipes in the past, none of that scares me.
When I look at all of this I am very confused as to why it has all these turns? I'm worried that there is some larger concept that I don't understand and that I might screw up some plumbing physics thing that I didn't know about. It is much more likely that this was put together by some DIY guy who didn't know what he was doing (you should see how they built the garage) but I want to be sure before I change all of this. I have done work with copper pipes in the past, none of that scares me.
