Thick Studs
Not much to update lately. I worked overtime on a video project last week for work so didn't work on the house at all till last weekend. The good news is that, I think I've solved most of the problems so everything should just fall into place.
The biggest news is that I'm redoing all the plumbing. I think I've finally solved all the weirdness. I had to take out all the old PVC drain pipes that Camillo put in and go with smaller 3" pipes for the toilet (sorry Camillo). It's not his fault tho... my house is weird. The the floor joists are only 6.5 inches tall. Normally today houses have beams that are 7.5" or 9.5" or larger. That made it hard to run the toilet to where I wanted because I had to make a hole in a small joist and I had to find a bend to connect to the toilet flange that was shallow enough.
I ended up going with a toilet flange I found at Lowes. It's a 45 degree angle flange that is meant to be like an offset flange with more flexibility. But when you connect it to another 45 bend, you have a 90 angle that's shallower by almost an inch. perfect!
You'd assume Home Depot and Lowes would carry just about the same stuff with different names on it maybe. But I've found completely different stuff at each. Lowe's has a much better selection of PVC plumbing stuff. Home Depot has a better selection of steel connectors. Basically, I have to run all over town looking for something that will work.
Also I'm going to have to attach another stud to a couple of floor joists to make them stronger since there are so many notches cut in them. I found out that this is called "sistering" in a plumbing book.
But here is the biggest moral of the story:
If you're going to run plumbing in a wall, make the wall at out of 2x6's at least!
I've been loosing a lot of flexibility because my bathroom walls studs aren't thick enough. If I knew then what I know now...