My MIL calls wth a little problem.
Seems my BroInLaw was installing a grab bar in the shower and drilled a nice little hole into the water line.
The grab bar was to go diagonally, kinda below the shower valve. Stud finder messed him over and located the water line instead of the stud which is 3″ closer to the shower valve.
The copper line was 3/4″, feeds the shower and continues on upstairs. Behind the shower is the laundry room with the dryer directly behind the shower valve. In this wall is the dryer vent, the 110v recepticle, the 220v dryer circuit AND THE GAS LINE.
The 3/4 copper was tight against the drywall backsde, and the gas line was 1/8″ away from the copper.
I really didn’t want to attack this from the shower side. No way a tubing cutter was gong to fit. Hacksaw blade would have been a complete beat down. SawsAall has the 1-1/8″ stoke and was not going to work. SawaAll blade in handle might do it, at least better than the hacksaw blade.
Then bingo! MultiMaster! Had a used up U – Cut blade that still had a little life in it.
Made the cut. Was a little ragged so I did clean it up with a dremel tool with a 3/8″ sanding drum on it. was able to warp the pipe out from the wall to do this.
Fluxed the snot out of everything. Slipped a repair cplg down, then back up.
Fired up the torch, hit it with solder, did what I could to get behind the gas line.
No leak!
MIL is happy, FIL is happy, BIL is extreamly grateful. DW is thankful.
I’ll go back in a day or two and patch the wall after it drys out a bit and mount the grab bar to the STUD.
MultiMaster made me look good!
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try some of these...
http://www.thefind.com/hardware/info-autocut-tubing-cutter
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I have 2 of those, 1/2" and 3/4". There just was not enough room.The sanding cloth barely fit between the wall and copper and the copper and the gas pipe.I do like those tubing cutters though.TFB (Bill)
I use a hack saw blade in it's own handle. Doesn't take all that long to go through a 3/4" pipe. Certainly easier then using a carbide SawZall blade to cut cast iron waste lines! MM no doubt is easier though.....hmmmm...wonder how that'd work on cast iron.View Image
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Buy and send me a new MM blade and I'll try it on cast iron for you.
:) TFB (Bill)
now that's tight...
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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!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
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Look, just send me to my drawer. This whole talking-to-you thing is like double punishment.
man, I love those autocut things!
(love my MM too, though!)
The copper and the gas line shouldn't be that close to each other.
I try to always run utilities with enough space around them to work on.
Whoever ran those wasn't very experienced.
I guess I'm stating obvious.
Will Rogers
Experienced? Hard to tell. Probably a sub of a sub. David Weekley was the builder.At the time the house was built I was a PM for the HVAC co. I was in the multifamily division but sat 15' from the single family division.On the HVAC side the installs were done by subs working piece work, (so much for lines, so much per drop, so much per unit.) They would shopw up in the morning load the pile of materials pulled for that house and go make it happen. The only HVAC co employees that would see the house were the super (drive by) and then the start up guy that would set and charge the outdoor units.I don't think our single family plumbing division had the David Weekley account, at least at that time. But I understand that the plumbing co's operated the same way. Sub the work to sub subs at the lowest possible $/fixture.TFB (Bill)
If you make it too cheap it doesn't work and then it gets real expensive.
I don't know, maybe I'm getting old. yea, definitely. "There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading, the few who learn by observation and the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."Will Rogers
Good job.
Did you use the MM to cut through that stud as well?
:)
Ha!TFB (Bill)
The fingerjoint in the stud doesn't look to good.
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Not many did in this 12 yo house. There was one near the front door that was obviously not glued. I kicked it almost completely out so the builder would see it and replace it. They just scabbed an 18" block to the side to reinforce the joint. Given the location of that wall, it worked.
TFB (Bill)
he could have hit the gas line instead....
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!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I sent the pics to my BIL. I think he wet himself when he saw how close it was.
TFB (Bill)
I would scab some scrap to that stud before mounting a grab bar to it.
What is the purpose of that extra blue box behind the drywall ?
Extra Blue Box? Beats me. I tried getting it out to no avail.I think adding a block in there is called for, good idea.TFB (Bill)
My guess is that some one put in a single gang box for dryer (and might have even run a 120 circuit) for the dryer. And they cut it out and let it fall into the wall. It this case it looks like it would have been easy to pull out. But off they can't easily be done.And this required some special work. Not sure why, but if you look real close you will see that there is a stud on the right side of the dryer box. And screws through the right side of the box into it.And I have never seen a box like that. It appears to be 2 level. I have seen round ceiling boxes like that. Designed to mount on the bottom of the joist and with a deeper area for the wires on one side. But not in a rectangular box.
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One of my wife's patients is getting a new refrigerater.Custom cabinets over fridge, with 5 inch lower rail over fridge, needed four inches cut off for new fridge. Stoped by after work, screwed straght edge to waist part of style, Multimaster with new Dremel blade 10 minutes later cleaning up and walking away with a fifty dollor cheque.
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Well done.Have one of those to do myself next week.TFB (Bill)
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