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Framing out Wet Wall for Waste Pipes

Bob discusses the "wet" walls in the expansion project. With the addition of a second floor, special attention needs to be paid to load bearing issues in the framing.

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Framing out Wet Wall for Waste Pipes

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" This is a wet wall right?"

" Ah, Bob, this is the bearing wall of the house."

" Sitting on top of the main girt in the cellar and it's holding up the 2nd floor frame, which eventually holds up the roof."

" So, this is a very important structural wall."

" It is, but what we had to do is actually make this wall thicker----"

" in order to have the plumber put his waste line in for the 2nd floor bathroom, which is directly above us."

" And that's why you called it either a wet wall or a chase."

" Right."

" You also can take wire stings to it."

" So, what we've done is made it thicker. This is the bearing wall, this is the wall----"

" that we've just finished building. And this waste line here goes up, and over here, and then it eventually back over to the shower in the 2nd floor bathroom."

" Yeah. And then, on the other side here."

" Over here, we have the toilet for the same bathroom. This is down and pick up the lavatory, the sink. You can found over here. So on this piping through the floor, which is part of the same wet wall in the den area----"

" Yeah."

" down into the basement and connecting to the mainline downstairs."

" Yeah, ordinarily, you would have been able to fit this size pipe in a stud wall cavity, but because it's structural, we haven't girt down----"

" Right."

" and we don't wanna drill into that. That's why we need to batten up the ball to call it a wet wall."

" Exactly."

" Well, how are you doing? Are you almost finished on this side?"

" Yeah, I have that one last jack to put it in."

" You need to bang it in a little bit out of place."

" There you go."

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