Some of you might get a kick out of this pic.
My new home had an intermittent water leak in the basement, eminating from the transition from a vent pipe through the first floor plywood. Fed up with a lame builder that refused to do call-backs, I opted to do the surgery myself, and opened up the drywall to expose the drain plumbing. When the baseboard came off, the drywall started peeing at me (top photo). The bottom pic is what the pipe looked like after the drywall came off. Fortunately my wife’s digital camera was on the kitchen counter, and I was able to record the whole thing.
The intermittent drip was from a baseboard nail that pierced the pipe. It simply had a slow drip that didn’t affect the first floor drywall when the nail was in place, but leaked profusely when the nail was removed.
Incidentally, the vent was for a future basement bath that is capped below. I’m guessing that rainwater filled the ventpipe to the nailhole line. The fix was to drill the nailhole to 1/8″ and fill with epoxy putty.
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Inspector shoulda caught that and made them put a plate across or fur the wall out more. All in all sure coulda been worse.
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there is a nail plate...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
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It was actually a bit worse.The attached photo shows the original hole I found (#1), and a second piercing made the same way with the trim nailer in the half bath sink drainpipe (#2), and last but not least another hole made by the sink mounting hardware (#3).Truly a comedy of errors, three holes within two feet of one another.I'll post a profile when I figure it out; I'm new to this sort of thing.JB in KC, a beer salesman with a set of tools.
Hey JB, you really should stick around this place and consider attending a breaktime fest. You'd be the first beer guy we've had show up and that would be a hell of a showup.
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Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
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Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
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JB in KC, a beer salesman with a set of tools.
our kind of people...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
This actually is a quite common problem. Doesn't necessarily reflect badly on the builder. There are ways to reduce the incidence though, and the builder should have sent someone pack to repair the leak. Matt
Beeeerrrrrrr salesman you say? Welcome friend, that's a pretty good intro, I wish I would have thought of that one.Who Dares Wins.
Which side of the stateline?I think that I need to do a quality control check on the product to "protect" the peoplen at the fest.
Edited 1/3/2005 1:48 am ET by Bill Hartmann
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Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
BUMMER! I didn't look. Should of been a bigger plate! Above typical base height.
The most interesting thing about it is that if that is a drain/vent/waste line, the only time water should be coming out is when the drain is being used and should not build up to the point of streaming out.
IF you've cut a future vent in a basement with a sawzall once, you will never do it again.
It's amazing how much rainwater can collect in a 2" PVC line in a few years time.
Jon Blakemore
Our house was a new build and it filled to the first floor in six months. We had a wet year (south KC KS) but you're right, it is amazing that it could fill that quickly.