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Today...
Returned to a job where a shower trap isn't holding, stinking the basement out.
Three hours to drill out a roughly 36" diameter chunk of concrete in front of the shower to avoid ruining the pan.
another two hours to rip through the clay and rocks under the shower, keeping the hole as small as possible so not to weaken the support for the copper/concrete pan above.
Agonizing with a Torch blade, to realize those things suck until you break the flat of the pipe, they take forever to cut through the side of metal pipe...wound up digging out more to make room for my diamond grinder.
Arms scratched to sh!t, cuts, bruises, sore joints and aching back from twisting and turning to get access to the drain 20 inches into where I'd cut.
this was one of this jobs where you get halfways through and start to panick when you realize how diffcult it is.
Finally home at 10pm, sore, filthy and exhausted.
I feel good, I mean it...finally getting the trap replaced, watching it hold, getting the check and driving home...I don't know if I could do anything else.
Returned to a job where a shower trap isn't holding, stinking the basement out.
Three hours to drill out a roughly 36" diameter chunk of concrete in front of the shower to avoid ruining the pan.
another two hours to rip through the clay and rocks under the shower, keeping the hole as small as possible so not to weaken the support for the copper/concrete pan above.
Agonizing with a Torch blade, to realize those things suck until you break the flat of the pipe, they take forever to cut through the side of metal pipe...wound up digging out more to make room for my diamond grinder.
Arms scratched to sh!t, cuts, bruises, sore joints and aching back from twisting and turning to get access to the drain 20 inches into where I'd cut.
this was one of this jobs where you get halfways through and start to panick when you realize how diffcult it is.
Finally home at 10pm, sore, filthy and exhausted.
I feel good, I mean it...finally getting the trap replaced, watching it hold, getting the check and driving home...I don't know if I could do anything else.