Running the PVC drain pipes was one of the first things Rick and I did. If you look at some of the pictures in the older posts you'll see the white pipe fitted into the floor.
If you haven't run PVC yet it's really easy to do. Just make sure you are ready to glue when you glue because the glue sets in about 30 seconds and there is no ungluing possible.
I finished all the way to the toilet this weekend. Only there was one problem. The elbow we got for the toilet flange required a piece of pipe to connect to the flange. Being able to connect it wasn't a big deal. What was a big deal was the fact that the flange would have stuck up about 2" above the surface of the floor. Not good. If you're wondering the flange should be flush with the floor. Otherwise you really do end up with a throne.
AND I had already glued everything together. There was no taking it apart. So I decided to cut the assembly out and re-fit it to get the toilet flange in the range where, when it is glued, it will be level with the floor. (Don't glue it until you know for sure where the floor will be!)
Well, I got some 4" fittings thinking if the flange set down in the pipe then maybe that would work better than the 3" pipe we were using. (The cast iron house drain is 4" so we had to get 4" pipe and reduce it to 3" anyway. I had a lot of 4" pipe left over.) I cut some of the 4" and fit it then discovered I would need to take out more wood from the floor beams. They are in sad enough shape already. That seemed like a bad idea. So I figured I would see if there was a flange for 3" pipe. I went back to the store again the next day and it turns out that all I needed was another different type of elbow and the fitting slipped right down the outside. Phew.
SO I tried fitting the pipe in again last night and ended up with one of the fittings upside down. Yes, and it was glued too. After lots of bad words I gave up for the night. I am back to the drawing board today. I so can't wait to start working on something other than plumbing!
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