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Evaluating the HVAC and Plumbing Systems
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Evaluating the HVAC and Plumbing Systems
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" What do you think about this heating system no well we've got a forty year old dinosaur here Bob that was sort of stalled originally with the oil burner and recently it's been converted to a conversion Gaspar. Probably in the last ten years probably the last ten years and this system replace the original 1895. Gravity want -- a system that was hand buy it with coal what yet so my advice is just to throw this thing notes that from scratch it's wolf. -- inefficient and efficient in a house that isn't insulated. That's another story. But -- talk about the plumbing can that we are we've got a number of new bath since such. And I'm really trying that fully developed this basement one of the things that are want to do in this area over here is to create. A family workshop right not just a woodworking shop at a repair shop you know hobby place right and one of the problems is banging your head it into the waste pipes. Right what we've broke alleviated that problem by carrying on all of the waste pipes and all the ductwork -- begin these trenches. All of -- main waste stack commute the individual -- one here one here. One there. What -- all intersect at one point in this on the ground. And this is well below grade don't have to worry don't have to end up pumping the waste out of the house though because the -- as well below this and we have the usual watering what that exit the -- like those sewer line is sufficiently deep outside rough correct. All right so -- picking everything up here and branching off in this direction. And here's where we have the original cast iron waste coming from. Everything that was opera Aaron this speech -- of powder room with you will of the forest floor what was -- we've kept in place for a few weeks so that. Workmen would have a place -- you know to use exactly so what we're gonna go remove this and clean out here and and -- all of the so -- that we just that discussed yet right back into the spitting right here you can barely see it but what we've got here is. Top of hub exactly and the cast iron waste going off in that direction towards the street right. Is that for a -- and so -- the comes up from the basement and we talked about -- on the ground. And you see where they cut this joist out right here right -- did similar things all the way around. This was part of the original stack that was put in the turn of the century and then went to -- PVC pipe which was right -- probably put in in the early seventies yeah. Every time somebody came in here and when the advent of good reciprocating saws man what a mess we've yet and we do much now well let's go up to the top and see what we're taking apart there -- All right now -- here. We do have some of the early plumbing right some of the stuff that we're looking -- yes we have a brass threaded pipe which is probably original with house and then at a later time Specter in here we have copper tubing which dates from the forties to date. -- plumbing wanna -- that now we we gotta remove everything because of the new lay out right exactly the stack is going because this what was going to be moved forward about a foot. In the event that we put in is going to be only two inch and -- this material can be reused no it's all jump. And a soldier tells about this tool that using that's correct it's oil pipe cutter and what it does is it's a series of cutting rails. That a compressed would come -- well he just snapped. So we we have a cut that was made previously up above we have another one here. Now we probably won't be able remove the pipe until -- makes at least one cut here in another one. On a horizontal line yes there will be able hole about because we've got a lot of weight here. Why -- concerned about saving these the I actually goes through the roofs as well don't have the reflection we we've got some nice copper flashing high -- up there have been probably will be made at that time the house was built and he's never wear out we want to dispute the -- blends with the architect."
