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June 14, 2009
Open Stockpipe in wall
Any advice on filling up this wall? Old rusty stockpipe was buried in brick and cement. Picture is of replacement stockpipe. Do I bury it in cement and then put plaster?
Hole is 12 foot long.
Email me at augiesasso@yahoo.com.
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My inclination would be to brush with "plaster weld" (the pink can), followed by structo-lite and finished with a white coat of diamond plaster. But what do I know about plaster, I work with wood.
Posted by: southslope at June 14, 2009 10:39 PM
What's a stockpipe?
Posted by: IronBalls at June 14, 2009 11:06 PM
I wouldn't completely mortar in the pipe. Chip the plaster away from the brick to expose enough brick so that you can lay in a piece of sheetrock or dryrock (cementboard). Fasten it by using the blue concrete screws in the brick. You'll need the appropriate size masonry drill bit to start the holes. Screw the sheetrock to the brick and plaster over it. Alternatively, if the brick surface is flat enough (and clean) you can probably get away with gluing the sheetrock using a strong urethane based construction adhesive that comes in tube form. You'll need a caulk gun for that.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 15, 2009 8:11 AM
IB...a "stockpipe" is what you have in a high-end Asshat-gentrified renovation that feeds one of those water faucets above the range to fill your stockpot.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 15, 2009 8:42 AM
I knew that!
Posted by: modsquad at June 15, 2009 9:11 AM
I didn't.
Posted by: Arkady at June 15, 2009 9:21 AM
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Posted by: Amzi Hill at June 15, 2009 3:36 PM
It's ashame that that decorative raised plasterwork was damaged.
Posted by: Bob Marvin at June 15, 2009 5:35 PM
Bob - the decorative raised plasterwork was damaged many years ago by countless layers of paint.
Posted by: SenatorStreet at June 15, 2009 6:10 PM
MP, this is the problem with you old timers. You don't change with the times. :)
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 16, 2009 7:49 AM
"IB...a "stockpipe" is what you have in a high-end Asshat-gentrified renovation that feeds one of those water faucets above the range to fill your stockpot."
Though, in this case, it was apparently an really forward-looking asshat, as the OP describes it as old, rusty, and buried under 'historical' molding. And it's huge.
or perhaps you were kidding. ;)
(I thought a stockpipe was what you flushed wallstreet down, now that the economy is in the sh*tter...)
Posted by: bfarwell at June 16, 2009 9:33 AM
if that pipe was replaced with this one, then it was damaged the first time a pipe was placed there. Stockpipe? that is a new one to me. This is a drainage or vent pipe for the plumbing ...it has NOTHING to do with pipes for a stock pot on a stove. I would say put some wire mesh around it, STRUCTOLITE (my most favorite stuff in the world for plater wall repair), then finished plaster. IF you really want to get whacky, make a mold of the plater pattern on the wall, fill it with plaster, then apply it in place to make the match.
Posted by: tomgee at June 16, 2009 9:35 AM
Ugh.
At 40 years old, I'm an old timer.
Not good.
Posted by: Master Plvmber at June 16, 2009 1:41 PM
looks like a vent line to me...nohub, 1 1/2 inch ..hmm
Posted by: eman1234 at June 16, 2009 8:58 PM
tomgee's idea sounds damn good to me. . .
Posted by: IronBalls at June 16, 2009 9:47 PM
The photo needs to be rotated. The crown molding and picture rail is on the left...that is actually the ceiling. So it is a waste pipe travelling vertically. It doesn't look like its big enough to be the main soil pipe for the terlet.
MP, what are your thoughts on whther this should be "mortared in" or is it better, for whatever reason, to construct a chase?
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 17, 2009 8:33 AM
If it's a vertical pipe, it might be the waste stack, or main trunk line accepting drainage from all the fixtures in line above it. Without perspective it's hard to tell.
That's probably where the "stockpipe" misnomer came from.
Posted by: Master Plvmber at June 17, 2009 1:05 PM
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