You may not need to take down the entire ceiling, using PEX you might be able to reroute the plumbing and connect it into the existing work in the ceiling depending on things like the direction of the joists and how far you have to move.
Watch too that the wall isn't a load bearing wall or you will be lowering the second floor. Alternatively, you may be installing a good heavy beam which may leave room for the existing plumbing to rise. I am fairly sure you have already considered these things but just in case!!! Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:40 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] The great kitchen dream project. Victor, Yeah, sure, come on down. I have a large hole in the yard that you might fill well. *GRIN* If you tried to harness Teresa, I'm sure at least some parts of you would make it into the hole. *GRIN* Lenny, Teresa is right, of course. *GRIN* I have a grand plan for the kitchen and dining room, unfortunately, it really does require a lot of work and money to make it happen the way I want it to happen. Here's the deal. The kitchen and dining room are separated by a wall with a doorway through it. I would love to rip down the wall and open it into an eat-in kitchen kind of area. One problem is that one end of that wall is the wet wall, where all the water, heating pipes, and drainlines run from the basement to the second floor. My grand plan has me re-routing those pipes a bit. That requires ripping down the kitchen ceiling. Since we added the deck, we now have a secondary exit from the house via the deck which means we can brick up the back door that is in the kitchen and put a window there and get some more wall space for cabinets and such. If we are going to re-arrange the cabinets, we should probably get new models that will fit better with the new kitchen design. We are already looking at a new fridge since ours is 30 years old and falling apart. We also want a new stove since we have one of those apartment sized 20 inch wide models. We need to move the cabinets in order to fit a new stove in. The long and the short of it is that this is actually a huge project and will eventually cost something like 30 grand or more to pull off. One step will be taken this summer when I have the back door bricked up and I put in a window. I can then turn the cabinets and rerun the kitchen sink plumbing. This will be a relatively easy project and will set the stage for more work down the road. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
