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Plumber wants to charge me $7,000+ to remove and replace Galvanized Steel DWV pipe
A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that in our garage where our washing machine is--our drain standpipe was spitting water back up and onto our garage floor. Around the same time, we noticed that there was a musky smell in our house, so I took it upon myself to go down into the crawl space and take a look. Sure enough, i saw the DWV pipe dripping underneath the house where the galvanized steel meets a T-joint for the adjoining kitchen sink drain line. I was able to snake quite a bit of gunk from the garage side through the standpipe, and now the washer doesn't back up anymore. I went down under the crawl space again to see what it looks like while the washing is running, and....it's bad. It's basically leaking out of the T-joint at the rate of a stream of piss. Plumber came out and took a close look and said we need to replace our galvanized steel pipes because they are at the end of their life (our home was built in the early 60's). While this may be true--there's virtually no other signs of leaking throughout the rest of my crawl space. He says it will be north of $7k to remove the current standing water under the house, and get the galvanized steel DWV replaced. How easy is this to repair myself? Am i okay to just cut out the entire existing T joint + 6-8" of galvanized steel pipe in each direction and replace with PVC? Are there any 'gotcha's or can of worms that i'm not thinking about? Seems like I could get away with doing this myself for under $100 at Home Depot, unless i find a tool that i absolutely HAVE to buy for this project :D https://preview.redd.it/ypakqfm1pnie1.jpg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67ac9093556ea283e6041379fb023af4ec54706f submitted by /u/kdouglas24 [link] [comments]
| | A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that in our garage where our washing machine is--our drain standpipe was spitting water back up and onto our garage floor. Around the same time, we noticed that there was a musky smell in our house, so I took it upon myself to go down into the crawl space and take a look. Sure enough, i saw the DWV pipe dripping underneath the house where the galvanized steel meets a T-joint for the adjoining kitchen sink drain line. I was able to snake quite a bit of gunk from the garage side through the standpipe, and now the washer doesn't back up anymore. I went down under the crawl space again to see what it looks like while the washing is running, and....it's bad. It's basically leaking out of the T-joint at the rate of a stream of piss. Plumber came out and took a close look and said we need to replace our galvanized steel pipes because they are at the end of their life (our home was built in the early 60's). While this may be true--there's virtually no other signs of leaking throughout the rest of my crawl space. He says it will be north of $7k to remove the current standing water under the house, and get the galvanized steel DWV replaced. How easy is this to repair myself? Am i okay to just cut out the entire existing T joint + 6-8" of galvanized steel pipe in each direction and replace with PVC? Are there any 'gotcha's or can of worms that i'm not thinking about? Seems like I could get away with doing this myself for under $100 at Home Depot, unless i find a tool that i absolutely HAVE to buy for this project :D [link] [comments] |
