There is no good reason why you shouldn't go down and back up. When you think about it, water descends from the city water tower below the streets then back up into your homes or even up into high buildings. In some places they may even use a pump to lift it higher than the tower albeit with a break so water can't siphon back down and contaminate the general supply.
I wonder though if/how the water enters the house, might you reroute it more conveniently and avoid the beam? ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] perforating an I beam. After more investigation into the i beam. dot dot dot The i beam is deeper than and sits lower than the parallel joists. The bottom of the i beam is about 7.5 inches below the bottoms of the joists. Makes some sense as the porch floor is a step below the main floor of the house, IE you step up from the porch into the house. So, that is why when the pipes duck just under the i beam, they are so much lower than the joists on the other side. Nuff said on this topic now. *GRIN* -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
