How to run a pipe through a concrete block wall setting up a core drill.
How to install pipe through concrete wall.
Feed the pipe through the hole and run it all the way around the foundation.
Cut away a 10 inch by 2 foot section of flooring.
Most core drills are heavy cumbersome tools to work with so this is the time to recruit a.
Cut a hole with some wiggle room for the new pipe.
The mason parged some mortar around the inside and outside didn t pack it tight and that mortar has worked free creating a major gap and leak for my client.
When pipes pass through basement walls underground ground water can leak in around the pipes and through the concrete.
Step 5 finish filling the trench.
Local code or your insurance may have an opinion but if it doesn t have any combustible material in the wall it should be doable for less than 450 to get through the wall.
Seal up around the pipe at both ends with a concrete sealing caulk.
Seal off the drain hole in the wall with poured cement and caulking.
Use the hole saw to cut a 4 1 8 inch circular hole in the concrete block wall.
Getting the core drill set up is the hard part.
Sealing sewer pipe through basement wall i am a gc in upstate ny i need to repair a basement wall where the 4 pvc soil pipe penetrates through.
Many times shifting soil or a house settling can create a gap around the pipe and an escape route for water before it reaches the foundation drain pipe.
I would say drilling through the foundation is a lot less inherently bad than going through the wall.
If you went through the wall you d want special framing and finish trim not just a pipe sticking through cedar shakes.
Drilling the actual hole is the easy part.