Sometime over the last year or so, my kitchen drain started to leak. Well, it actually was the pipe inside the wall that started to leak. It was made of copper. Now I remember going to my Grandparent Schutt’s house as a young kid. They had copper drain plumbing in their house. I remember thinking that they were so rich. Everytime that I visited their house, I’d be amazed at that copper drain pipe. (Yea… I didn’t live much of a life…) So now I live in a house with copper pipe, and i want to tear it out. Copper is a metal. (Yea. I know. I get that smart by being a college professor.) Metals, it turns out, are eaten by acids. (That’s why the city water works keeps the pH of our water about 7 — so that the water doesn’t eat metal pipes. My last house had lead pipes, but that’s another story.) So, the copper pipes in the kitchen drain were shot. It’s time to replace them.
I need to add an electric outlet to the left of my kitchen window. The drain vent has to go… So, cut out all the old copper pipes, cut new pvc pipe, prime the new joints, and glue them together.
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Thanks, Aaron (age 11) for the help! =]