Bain Posted April 5, 2011 Report Posted April 5, 2011 . . . is the preferred weapon of choice. Click to Enlarge 57.66 KB Click to Enlarge 16.95 KB
John Kogel Posted April 5, 2011 Report Posted April 5, 2011 Dang it. Does this mean I have to start sniffing every vent stack I come across, just in case it's plugged up? Good catch, BTW.
kurt Posted April 5, 2011 Report Posted April 5, 2011 I'm not sure what I'm looking at.......are you sure the vent doesn't take a turn instead of it being blocked?
Bain Posted April 5, 2011 Author Report Posted April 5, 2011 I'm not sure what I'm looking at.......are you sure the vent doesn't take a turn instead of it being blocked? No, the pipe reduces to 2" from 3". Some yahoo whacked the test cap with a hammer rather than sawing it off.
Tom Raymond Posted April 5, 2011 Report Posted April 5, 2011 Me either, and what does it have to do with a hacksaw?
Bain Posted April 5, 2011 Author Report Posted April 5, 2011 I'm thinking you city dwellers don't see PVC vents very often. Here, when a house is built, caps are glued to the tops of the vents--or sometimes bladders are inserted if there's access in the attic--and the drain system is pressure tested to make certain there are no leaks. Once the plumbing inspector okays the drains, the caps have to be removed. The quick and easy way to do that is to whack the cap with a hammer, like in my photos. But in my photos, the cap fell into the vent and is now blocking it. The CORRECT way to remove the caps is to saw them off with a hacksaw so the diameter remains what it should be, and also so the cap doesn't wind up in the vent.
Bain Posted April 5, 2011 Author Report Posted April 5, 2011 And . . . sometimes the plumber neglects to remove the test caps. Like this: Click to Enlarge 51.69 KB
kurt Posted April 5, 2011 Report Posted April 5, 2011 got it now...... It's a colloquialism. We got lottsa those.
AHI in AR Posted April 5, 2011 Report Posted April 5, 2011 Y'all don't do it right. You should leave the cap on and then just drill a few dozen holes in the pipe! Click to Enlarge 101.79 KB
gtblum Posted April 5, 2011 Report Posted April 5, 2011 Y'all don't do it right. You should leave the cap on and then just drill a few dozen holes in the pipe! Click to Enlarge 101.79 KB Hmmm. If they had drilled into the side of the cap instead of the pipe, that would probably work just fine
Tom Raymond Posted April 5, 2011 Report Posted April 5, 2011 Ah! It all seems so clear now.[:-blindfo
plummen Posted April 7, 2011 Report Posted April 7, 2011 Y'all don't do it right. You should leave the cap on and then just drill a few dozen holes in the pipe! Click to Enlarge 101.79 KB Hmmm. If they had drilled into the side of the cap instead of the pipe, that would probably work just fine Now aint that special? Special ed plumbing that is! [:-crazy]
gtblum Posted April 7, 2011 Report Posted April 7, 2011 Y'all don't do it right. You should leave the cap on and then just drill a few dozen holes in the pipe! Click to Enlarge 101.79 KB Maybe I should have put one of the little smartass face thingys after that comment. Hmmm. If they had drilled into the side of the cap instead of the pipe, that would probably work just fine Now aint that special? Special ed plumbing that is! [:-crazy]
Erby Posted April 8, 2011 Report Posted April 8, 2011 Someplace, in my collection of thousands, I've got a couple of pictures of the test balls still stuck in the T in the attic of a 5 or 6 year old houses. And LOTS AND LOTS of pictures of test caps never removed. Click to Enlarge 76.97 KB
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