Nice job. Good that the home owner was there to do the demo. Never fun to explain a big hole in the wall after the fact. Gotta love those old systems where as you get into it the job just keeps getting bigger. I am working on an 82 year old boat right now. What started as two hour job has grown into 4 days so far and I still haven't finished the demo.

in my neck of the woods cant have drains in exterior walls only vents. you guys are legends keep it up!

I remember doing a job just like yours, but with a chain cutter! Last 2 inches of the cut were done by a bare hacksaw blade!

That looks very familiar. I picked up a HUD home ca 1925 cast iron from the bottom to the top!! It all starts when they turned the water back on and you think you have a bathroom that is functioning. Halfway through the day you go outside to the truck and happen to look up... hmm... why is the side of the house wet? two thirds the way up? Cracked pipe, split toward the outer wall. Fix that. Next day. Hmm... why is house wet one third the way up? because you thought you were done with one. Fix that one. In basement. Hmm what that smell? Should have done the whole standpipe. All cracks were facing out to the cold side. These were 12-20 inch long split pieces of iron. Ice has to be one of the strongest hydraulic forces in the universe. Kudos for giving feedback to the comments. Most people never come back around to answer questions. Those flexible boot clamps are the shit!!

We have to use mission bands instead of Ferncos in Missouri and white schedule 40 pipe! Keep the video's coming Chuck!!🇺🇸

Nice job on the video. I enjoyed it. You made it fun. Really straight foreword. It’s always dreadful to tell the customer you have to increase the scope of work.

Cutting any 4" stack took an hour per cut and 50.00 worth of blades....lol I absolutely LOVE those diablo blades and a corded sawzall...

Big fan of your videos. Good insight and I like how you keep it real

You know you’re in a classy joint when they have a suspended ceiling in the bathroom 🚽!!!

I feel your pain Chuck, I've been doing quite a few C.I. stacks lately, and they can turn into a major headache. CB2...Come on man...give us a frat party "AND THERE GOES ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER!"

I've never heard of ABS pipe. Fantastic job here

I have a 6 inch crack in our stack line, but I cant afford to have it al replaced right now. So I went and bought some JB weld epoxy put that on the crack been holding for 10 years

I can see one thing the 2 little white knobs above the window frame on the right, the old knob and tube wiring. 1920 electrical

Those Diablo blades are the best

I like the old concrete laundry sink, dad took ours out in 1968 had to break it with a sledge hammer

Thanks for video Chuck. Been sick for a few days so have to catch up.

Hi Chuck, I am researching the causes of cast iron pipe splitting along the length of the pipe. We have several commercial and research buildings that have multiple failures like this on the rain water leaders. I have recently been made aware of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion or MIC. I have a suspicion that MIC is a major contributor to this type of failure in cast iron pipe however there is very little research on MIC specifically in water and sewer pipe (Most research has been in the oil and gas industry). I am hoping that you or anyone looking at this post has any opinion on this?

Definitely remember the Lennox blades, Diablo is the ticket

The chucks getting her done lol nice job boys

Why not pvc pipe instead of abs??

One question,what posessed you to remove the guard from your angle grinder?At the beginning of the video you stated that you were concerned with getting metal chips in your lungs while at the same time you were using that angle grinder without the guard or the side handle,seriously?So you were concerned with metal chips getitng into your lungs but you never gave a second thought to how extremely dangerous it is to use an angle grinder without the grinder guard and the side handle?If that were my house as soon as I saw you using that angle grinder without the grinder guard I would have asked you to leave my house immediately and I would have never called you back for any kind of work.You also stated towards the beginning of your video that you can't find the gaurd for your angle grinder which makes no kind of sense because if you had not removed the grinder guard you would not have to look fort it and what's more angle grinder guards are quick release which means the guard can be repositioned in no time at all.There is no way that I would ever use an angle grinder without the side handle or especially the grinder guard because I value my safety and my fingers.Seasoned butchers have had fingers cut off using band saws to cut meat so what makes you think that using angle grinders without the grinder guards is in any way a safe or smart thing to do?Sorry dude,you lost both my confidence and my vote.Money is tight all over I understand but if that's the case then head over to Harbor Freight and buy a nine inch angle grinder for $62.99 to tide you over until you save up enough to buy a better nine inch angle grinder and leave the grinder guard in place because there is no reason what so ever as to why the grinder guard should ever need to be removed from an angle grinder.A cheap tool can always be replaced with a better one,a severed finger on the other hand is not so easy and extremely expensive to reattach.As a licensed locksmith I have had to use my angle grinder to cut and adjust metal doors and metal door frames and one time when I was with my mentor the Jewish guy that taught me locksmithing he took my angle grinder and used it carelessly and I freaked out because my angle grinder got a hold of his coat and tore the guy's coat big time and in the excitement and the melee the locksmith didn't have the composure of mind to simply let go of the trigger on my angle grinder so I jumped and pulled the cord to disconnect the angle grinder which is why the angle grinder stopped immediately and believe it or not the locksmith still hadn't let go of the trigger on my angle grinder even after I had pulled the electric cord so believe me,I know exactly how dangerous misusing an angle grinder/being careless with an angle grinder can be.Thank God,blessed and praised be His name,Amen.,that I was close enough as I was to be able to pull the electric cord as fast as I was able to because if not my angle grinder would have torn a hole in the guy's side.Tools must be treated with the utmost respect and used exactly as the tools are designed and intended to be used because if not tools can and will hurt us very badly.Other than your misuse of your angle grinder your video is very good and educational,thank you and God bless you and yours.By the way,what helped prevent a total tragedy when my mentor the locksmith carelessly used my angle grinder was the fact that my angle grinder had both the grinder guard and the side handle attached,otherwise the situation could have ended up much much worse than just a torn coat.The metal buttons on my mentor's coat didn't do anything to slow the angle grinder down but the side handle did plenty to keep the angle grinder from tearing a hole into my mentor's side because my mentor had a good firm grip on the angle grinder's side handle thank God.I had just finished telling my mentor to be very very careful with using my angle grinder right before he scoffed at me and misused it and it got a hold of and tore the heck out of his coat,go figure.

Exactly how I would have done it. Good job.

Hahah so awesome “ I forgot to glue the 90” wish I was yours and cbs helper

Chuck ridgid makes a cast iron chain snapper for your press tool. They are around $500. Check them out on ridgid website. Or utube them.

Did you carry a majority of those parts in the van or did you have to hit the parts house? How about a van tour? Nice work.

I feel for you. Hate it when you think it’s done and it just ain’t so. 😭

Dont you have to support the weight of the pipe that continues through the attic and the roof?

Those lennox blades sucked, I love diablo, sometimes I put 2 extra clamps on the fernco, like a heavy duty no hub, & a little grease on the pipe

good deal!. would u recommend putting some 2x4 beneath just in case all that case iron wanna collapse on u ?

sometimes it's easier to abandon a section of pipe in wall and run new out around it, use the old piece of vent-stack as a chase for smaller pipe (2") out the roof/rubber boot it, then they only have to box in new pipe. of course it wont pass code everywhere/many places, so be careful :)) less tear out/destruction, no playing with the roof boot, etc.

Dish soap helps lubricate and make this easier or any type of grease I would apply too both cast and the abs makes life way easier its too much of a pain with rubber on dry plastic or cast nothing moves.

Explain sometime why you use black pvc over schedule 40. What is the difference?

When your on a shit job like that it's good to be with someone with a good work attitude like you 👍

Sawsall? No 4" abs cutters?

I didn't know you could go ABS to cast iron

Is a 4" cast iron stack typically tied off or supported at the attic or the roof? Can the heavy stack, above the section being cut out, fall?

Chuck I also have pipe connections above the stack where I need to cut plus it looks like there is a brace connected to those pipes mounted to the rafters of the ceiling. I have to install a Clean-Out in the pipe is why I am doing this. We have a sewer blockage and the plumber needs a clean out on that pipe to snake it. Other plumbers in the past went through other pipe openings with no success snaking it. They went down the stand pipe in the floor with the P trap on the bottom, no success. Then they snaked it through a hole (in the side of a floor drain) and it did work for awhile (the unblockage). But again the new guy I want to do this told me about the clean out. Any thoughts from you or others on all this will help! Thanks Much! Also I did see in another video the guy put the glue on the inside of the rubber collar to the cast iron, which is not needed right? I understand about the glue though PVC to PVC..

Great job boys! Keep em coming

thank you for your knowledge.

Big job good job nice job guys,

Soap is your friend.

Mine is leaking at the joint. What do I do then?

How do you know where to find the leak or crack in the pipe to know where to get at it behind the wall?

You ever run into cast iron pipe thats 4 1/4 outside diameter and 3 1/2 inside diameter? the 4 inch fenrncos dont fit and the 3 inch ferncos dont work, so what fits?

I've noticed you use alot of abs black pipe instead of white PVC pipe. Is there a reason for using that where you live?

Fernco couplings? You're kidding right!

I bought a Carbide Blade for my Sawzall that says it cuts Cast iron. Anyone use those blades?

How did f you find the crack? Was it leaking water OR was it smelling bad?

I remember alot of swearing and spraying wd-40 on those blades to cool them down Diablo for the win!!

Hi chuck, would a pipe chain breaker work in that location

Why do you use ABS instead of PVC?

I like CB2, cool dude.

I have a basement exit pipe that takes my upstairs sink water AND water from a clothes washing machine. Sometimes the pipe gets backed up due to food (sink) or soap (washing machine) and water goes everywhere. Is there another way to get water out of my house?

why wouldn't you cut a window in the pipe with the disc and finish it with the disk that's what I do

Nice work 👍🏾

Hey CB, you’re allowed to transition to ABS on a cast iron stack there? I’m in MA and only allowed on a horizontal run to do that. Cause of the weight of the stack. Gotta love old stack repairs 😂😂.

How about calling it a no hub fitting instead of a brand name?

Rubbers always save the day

nasty! but you styled it out

CB, they allow flexible couplings above ground in NJ? normally we'd use a no hub

I'm surprised you don't use a nut driver on an impact drill, makes things faster on the ferncos. Hmm

At least not in a stack line

Nice job sir, what did you think about the diablo blade?

Good job plumbers. Peace brother

come on now, we know you wanted to rework that lead to copper the old fashion way :)))))

I've had those kinda days where you would just want to be somewhere else .

Smells like mooooney

Alot carpentry work to put that job back together but could of been alot worse nice job