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Who knew this was even possible in a PVC pipe (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by IMALlama@lemmy.world to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

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A small update from a few days ago. To save you a click, it turns out that if you apply PVC cement and don't push the pipes together you won't actually make a good joint. Who knew.

I'm honestly impressed it lasted so long without issues. We've lived in this house over 10 years and the PVC run predates our purchase.

As a side note, PVC repair couplers are a massive PITA. I am glad I didn't have to dig a fresh trench, get the old pipe out, and put a new one in, but it was quite the dance getting the coupler on while fighting with 2" OD pipe that's firmly lodged in clay. My nice small hole grew a bit longer to get some wiggle room.

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[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We've lived here 12 years now. Before us, the original owner lived here for 45 years. The house was builder grade, and nearly all original, when we moved in. Thankfully we had very few actual surprises until this year, but I did find evidence that the original cast iron drain pipe for the kitchen sink had rotted out and was replaced before I took the kitchen down to studs for a planned reno.

All in I think our kitchen was around $20k and that was with me doing all the work other than installing the counters :( I also pulled down a wall, but thankfully didn't need to put in a beam.

We had a minor surprise around 5 years ago: a galvanized pipe that was screwed into the cast iron stack rotted out. I replaced that section with PVC.

This year we had our first real surprise: the cast iron pipes in our basement floor had rotted out pretty badly. That was... not fun to deal with. Break up the slab, find asbestos floor tiles, get 12 years worth of stuff out of the basement to deal with cleanup, etc.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

Cast Iron, geez. That's a relic!