The remodeling continues

mustangmike6996

mustangmike6996

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I've been redoing our house (slowly) and I'm gearing up for the basement bathroom/laundry room. It has a toilet and sink already but the drains need to be moved. I'm adding a bath tub (doing a walk in shower upstairs, single bathroom house).

I want a to insulate the walls which are concrete block. They are dry but everyone recommends not doing Batts insulation due to mold/moisture etc in the basement. So I'm going probably do foam. I think*** I have 2 options, foam board on the wall first then frame the exterior walls or frame the exterior walls a couple inches away from the block and do closed cell spray foam. Each 4x8 sheet of pink foam insulation is like $50 and I'd need about 6 sheets, the spray foam kit is $300. Any recommendations?


Next is the floor, what's the best way to figure out where the existing plumbing is so I don't have to break up as much concrete? I've do a job like this before but it was to add a section of pipe, this job requires me to modify/move the toilet flange and add a shower drain (close proximity to each other). The house was built in 1954, I'm fairly certain that it is all cast iron pipe. What do you recommend for attaching PVC to cast? Just a rubber boot?

Looking for any advice to save me potential headaches. I'll try to get a floor plan and current picture of what I'm working with.
 
would it be possible to go to the township to pull up the blueprints? It might save you in other projects to have that type of information on hand. I'd use the sheet vs spray as everything is accessible now.
 
The pipe shouldn’t be to bad to follow, pull the toilet off and look into the pipe and see what way it goes, then bust up small sections at a time to follow it till you get where you need.
 
I just did this with the breaking of the floor.
I had a shower stall tied in before I bought the house. That was removed and putting in a whole bathroom.
Go in the one drain and drop a flashlight in to see what direction it goes, then break the concrete with a sledgehammer.
I'll see if I can post a photo on here of what I did.
 
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Toilet was where the old drain was, all the white pipe is new. The original is the yellow looking stuff.
The trap when down where it says toilet and I just stuck a snake in to try and see the direction, the other thing I had going for me was down at the bottom right of the picture there is another drain outside of the work area.
The "toilet" drain was going directly toward it.
 
If you do use a metal detector, use a really long steel cable and fish it thru the pipes while using the detector to follow the cable.
 
This is the layout we are planning on.
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The middle sink will be a laundry tub, there will be a half wall between with obscure glass that goes to the ceiling to keep it open feeling.
 
Havent gotten much work done in the garage. Ive been hammering out remodeling with some minor hiccups. As I was pulling out the old cast iron drain the sewer backed up and flooded my work area (complete coincidence)
 
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