Great job fixing that in such tight quarters. I own an 86 year old home and have to deal with these kinds of issues from time to time. Its good for viewers to see what you are dealing with and how you solved it.

Geez, replace both stacks in a house you just bought. What a nightmare. But with the homes being that old, all the infrastructure (water, sewer, gas, etc.) is at the end of it's life. I'm shocked how big of a crack it became overnight. But good job brother!

Thanks for showing the before and after of the cracked pipe and what you did. I wanted to see how you used the Franco connectors on PVC to Cast Iron. I currently have a cracked/leaking bathtub to main pipe leaking bad. Got to cut out the old 1940s cast iron and replace with PVC/Franco like you did. You video gave me some more ideas and built up my confidence a little more! Go Birds 🦅! Yous!

I love listening to your commentary. It's like voicing my own thoughts in these situations.

The inspector very much should've seen that. Its right out in the open and all you need is a close look at the line with a flashlight to find it. Once you see one crack you should also recommend the line be scoped from the roof to the street to be sure its all in tact. I see quite a few of these on my inspections, almost one every week.

He found some phone wires in the same wall..just incase you needed to call the stink hotline

The rest of the pipe kept cracking because of the vibrations of the reciprocating saw you probably used to cut the lower sections with. Those rusty old pipes are very brittle and will crack with the smaller vibration. It's best to use chain soil pipe cutters.

A large percentage of home inspectors are clowns.

There were no weird 45’s😂 those were 22 1/2’s Turns out the seller was there during the inspection along with the buyer= my customer. The seller was following the inspector around telling war stories!? No excuse in my eyes! If you look at the first pipe we replaced that goes in the cinder block I didn't say in the video but obviously that was a patch we removed so the seller knew about the crack and didn't disclose. Also the second pipe we removed that started leaking upstairs you can see that was previously opened and covered with newer drywall. The weird wet stains everywhere on the cast fittings joints I'm now thinking were from some kind of a solution test or bubble leak test.

Damn home inspectors hardly catch the significant stuff

Looked like they really cut into that 4x4 to get that 4” pipe in the wall also. 9:06

Edited out the work, that's the reason we come for these videos

I just purchased a home a year ago & had the same problem. The inspectors manager wouldn’t let me speak with him & said they only check for surface level issues. I paid for a scope test & they failed to do the test. I was able to detect the crack in the cast iron with a flashlight.. It’s been a year & i’m Still having sulfur smell issues & i’m looking to come out of thousands to dig up my sewage line & figure out what the problem is.

This is why I have an overhead sewer line in my basement

Awesome thanks for the info

Nice work, you earned your five star Man card.

He never showed what he was doing. He just showed the fitted results. That helps no one

Better check it all the way to the roof

ALL IN ALL THE NIGHTMARE LETS HOPE IS OVER . NICE CLEAN WORK . U GET AN , A

It seems that the previous owners liked to throw firecrackers down the toilet.

voice of narrator sounds the same as the BBQ Pit Boys voice guy

Wow that sucks, that looks like a nice house but those old houses usually have bad bones

The rest of that cast would not pass a hydrostatic test

How long did it take to fix?

The Wye going to sink should be a Tee.

May I ask ball park what do you charge for just a simple pvc connect to waste drain pipe in basement for laundry discharge....I'm experiencing a slow drain over flow in the basin....your video shows some of what I saw when I pulled the trap off the sink...decay and Willimantic build up also...thanks!

Understood the Ferncos from PVC to the Cast, but I don't understand why you used a Fernco to attach two PVC pipes together? Just did this in my house due to a rotten lead elbow under the toilet, except I did it right... replaced all the cast in the house with PVC, it's only a matter of time before those other pieces spit, not to mention the scaling inside the pipes.

Doesn't look like the Inspector ever got out of the vehicle

this is NOT reall big problem..if you got the house for a good price.... do the work you save a ton it aint that hard it sounds like you are from philly so big box stores everywhere !! i see u have a work van and tools ......open the walls demo and clean that is the first day, get what u need in plumbing materials ie pipe fittings ect ect bust out the old shit ( at the bottom of where the pipe makes a turn scoop out the rust from the pipe with an old spoon on a pole) dry fit your pvc ...the pvc is cheap and easy.... do all that is needed to be replaces ,check for leaks not impossible ..after no leaks ,,rap with fiberglass insulation pipes will be MUCH quieter ... i did my 3 story house in oak lane TWO sewers it was a lil work but i saved a fcking mint!!!!! 😉

Nice work, but I wish you would have shown the work replacing each/some of the problems. I didn't learn anything from you video about Repair.

I hope nothing is cracked under the floor

@jamie Thompson, what type of grinder did you use to cut the floor open to rough in the plumbing

I smell POOP🤣🤣🤮...fire the home inspector🤣🤮🤣

That pipe had like 60 years to crack, why would it wait till the day after you taped it to crack like that, any ideas? I have one that I have to repair but I am afraid that if I touch it, I might have to call you.

Stupid home inspector just put food on my table hahahaha ya I'm sure you all hate those guys

Total replacement. C'mon

Rotten pipe is rotten pipe, how many freeze-thaw cycles did that home go through ?

Fug pvc

PVC SUCKS