ball valve for washer supply lines
On 2008-05-02, dakota2112 wrote:
The thing that really confuses me though is that the relatively large PVC drain pipe enters the box inbetween the valves, and exits through the floor co-planar with the pipes but NOT inbetween them. Is the P-trap for the washer drain visible in the basement? If not, it is in the wall, which explains why the pipe jogs. I'm not sure how I would even go about removing the existing valves. If they are threaded on, I won't be able to remove them because the pipe flexes torsionally and I can't access the pipe itself to prevent that. I believe they are threaded on, but someone else with more experience should confirm that. If so, you would need to open up the wall below the box so that you can get an opposing wrench on the connection. Cheers, Wayne |
ball valve for washer supply lines
On May 2, 11:05 am, Wayne Whitney wrote:
On 2008-05-02, dakota2112 wrote: The thing that really confuses me though is that the relatively large PVC drain pipe enters the box inbetween the valves, and exits through the floor co-planar with the pipes but NOT inbetween them. Is the P-trap for the washer drain visible in the basement? If not, it is in the wall, which explains why the pipe jogs. I'm not sure how I would even go about removing the existing valves. If they are threaded on, I won't be able to remove them because the pipe flexes torsionally and I can't access the pipe itself to prevent that. I believe they are threaded on, but someone else with more experience should confirm that. If so, you would need to open up the wall below the box so that you can get an opposing wrench on the connection. Cheers, Wayne duh, absolutely - the drain trap is inside the wall! That explains the offset. Thanks for pointing out the obvious which I totally overlooked :) I think the valves must be threaded on, as there's no way a torch could've gotten in there without melting the plastic, and it doesn't look like there's clearance to insert the vertical pipe with a valve already soldered on the end. Opening up the wall to get in there and hold the pipes is what I had planned if all else fails. I'm just not looking forward to doing a voluntary drywall repair - but this whole thing is to avoid a catastrophic leak in the first place, so... As for the existing valves, they are not seized completely, but they were a bear to turn the last time I shut them off which was several years ago. That's why I'd rather piggyback or replace completely. |
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