Cle Elum and Quincy Home Inspection.... How Thick is it?

Another saga of the wandering crawlspace crawler.

When performing home inspections one of the most important places to evaluate is plumbing drops. Many times these have issues …. past and/or present.

Plumbing drops can two major issues.

One- Many times plumbers when installing their plumbing drops for items such as toilets and tubs will cut through a framing member to get there needed clearance to run their waste and drain lines.

Two- Very often these lines will end up leaking leading to other structural issues.

Here we have an example of that double whammy.

This is a 2 x 10 floor joist. The plumber originally had cut a good 3 inches of this member to get a plumbing drop in.

Then after a few years this drop started to leak and compromised the wood even further by rot fungi. So now in effect we have a 2 x 4 supporting the weight of the bathtub and the bather in it.

Needless to say we will need a contractor to come and evaluate further to make a correction.

Cle Elum and Quincy Home Inspection.... How Thick is it?

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