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I am new here, and this is my first post. I am near positive a question of this nature has already been discussed, but the search tool cant seem to find it...
I have a house that was built around the late 1950's. It has Cast Iron pipes for the drain system. My questions are where the basement where the CI pipe goes through the cement basement wall, about 2 feet outside of the wall (towards the septic system ) the CI pipe has broken. About 1 foot further towards the septic tank, the pipe goes into a 4 inch ceramic with a bell. The CI pipe that is between the outside wall and the ceramic is very deteriorated. In fact it is so bad that it also needs replaced rather than just slipping a boot over it. so...
Where the CI pipe goes through the wall is solid mortar or concrete, with no sleeve. I am looking for suggestions on what to do as far as the pass through the wall is concerned. The pass through the wall is a very nice looking job, very solid, and no leaks. What would be the least damaging way to remove the old CI pipe from the wall.. After a boot is put on outside to connect the New Plastic pipe to the Clay pipe there should be no problem with expansion and contraction, besides, the replacement will be plastic pipe. The pipe that passes through the wall is 3 inch Ci, so when I change to Plastic, I will have a bit of a gap to fill, but probably not enough of a gap to sleeve it.
Since the pipe is already broken outside the wall. this will be my starting point, but have plans in mind of replacing the entire CI system with plastic. [IMG][IMG]
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I am new here, and this is my first post. I am near positive a question of this nature has already been discussed, but the search tool cant seem to find it...
I have a house that was built around the late 1950's. It has Cast Iron pipes for the drain system. My questions are where the basement where the CI pipe goes through the cement basement wall, about 2 feet outside of the wall (towards the septic system ) the CI pipe has broken. About 1 foot further towards the septic tank, the pipe goes into a 4 inch ceramic with a bell. The CI pipe that is between the outside wall and the ceramic is very deteriorated. In fact it is so bad that it also needs replaced rather than just slipping a boot over it. so...
Where the CI pipe goes through the wall is solid mortar or concrete, with no sleeve. I am looking for suggestions on what to do as far as the pass through the wall is concerned. The pass through the wall is a very nice looking job, very solid, and no leaks. What would be the least damaging way to remove the old CI pipe from the wall.. After a boot is put on outside to connect the New Plastic pipe to the Clay pipe there should be no problem with expansion and contraction, besides, the replacement will be plastic pipe. The pipe that passes through the wall is 3 inch Ci, so when I change to Plastic, I will have a bit of a gap to fill, but probably not enough of a gap to sleeve it.
Since the pipe is already broken outside the wall. this will be my starting point, but have plans in mind of replacing the entire CI system with plastic. [IMG][IMG]

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