Hi, I'm new here

I'm redoing my 2nd floor Bathroom and this is my first major project. when the plumber redid the plumbing in the wall (coming from 3rd floor and joining waste from 2nd floor bath and down to drain) he put the pipe sticking out so that I cant put on the Sheetrock.



I only removed the old tiles on the lower half of the wall and Don't want to remove the lath and plaster.



I don't want to bring the plumber back and I don't want to add another layer to the entire wall. What can I do?

I'm new to this so any advise would be appreciated. Thanks

 

Welcome to the forums! .....I'd shim the studs out so the drywall will clear the pipe.

 

Thanks, but then the lower half of the wall will stick out at least 1/2 an inch from the top and perhaps more importantly, there is a door immediately to the left of the area shown. (you can see the casing on the bottom of the second picture)

I'm only tiling the bottom part so my only thought is that perhaps the tile can make the difference in depth not noticeable. but I'm not sure how that would work against the door.

 

They sell a bullnose tile that covers a 1/2" difference in depth so that might be an option. Can you post a pic from further back so we can better understand just what you have?

 

That whole wall needs to be shimmed out.
Whatever that is above that open area needs to go.
What's the deal with all those electric boxes on the wall?

 

Moving that pipe would not be easy. If you don't want to shim the whole wall out, which is probably what I would do, probably your only other option is to add framing on both sides of the pipe and build a little chase that sticks out an inch or whatever it needs to be. I would continue it right up to the ceiling or it will look odd. Other option is to bump the wall out from just left of the pipe over to the wall on the right. Might look a little better than just a narrow chase.

 

It sounds like I may be paying the price for trying to do this "simply", I removed the lower half of the wall because I'm replacing the tile. but I left the top thinking that I was keeping it simple. I'm doing this myself, would it be more difficult to add a chase or to replace the whole wall?

Here are some more pics:





This is my tile, don't know if the bullnose will work with this.



Electric boxes are A. main light, vanity mirror sconces and shower fan B. under floor heat C. vanity outlet

 

Chase would be simpler in my opinion

 

I agree a chase over the pipe would be simpler but IMO furring out the whole wall or at least the section that gets tiled would look nicer.

 

I have seen many baths without a true utility wall where they furred out behind the toilet for the full width of the toilet tank. What goes where the pipe is?

 

Thanks so much for your help. I really appreciate it.

The wall with the pipe is the north wall. The vanity will be placed in the north/east corner facing west. So the lower half of the pipe area will actually be covered by the vanity.

If I went with a chase how would that go next to the side of the vanity?

If I went with shiming the lower half of this wall then it might look off with tile protruding protruding 1"+ on the north wall more than the east wall tile?

And if I went with shiming and covering the whole north wall with an extra layer of drywall then what would I do with the door and casing?

 

With the door, you would just normally remove the casing, add 1/2 inch jamb extensions to the jambs and reinstall the casing. But it looks like an inswing door, so that might mean resetting the hinges and stops. Otherwise you'd have to bury the hinges in the casing. Or resetting the whole frame in 1/2 inch and adding extensions on the outside. Either way, it becomes a bigger project.

It's too bad the plumber didn't remove that cast iron hub and put the transition to PVC higher up, cause it's the hub that is really sticking out. He probably didn't want to deal with re-supporting the CI pipe, since it's supported under the hub now. Sure you don't want to have him come out and get rid of that hub? I guess you would still have to do something since the PVC sticks out too far also, just not as bad.

Given what you said about the vanity, I'd probably try to build a section of the wall out so the edge of the bump out was just a little farther out than the vanity. Then it would probably look pretty decent.

 

Assuming you mean perpendicular to the wall with the pipe I would fur out just from back of the vanity to the front of the vanity to the other. That would help the fur out to be less noticeable, sort of look like an architectural detail.

 

So it would look something like this



With addition:

 

Yes, but I would go to the ceiling with the fur out. You could use sink cap on the edge up to where the tile ends.

 

I'm not sure what sink cap is. Thanks

 

Sink cap: .

 

Thanks a lot for all the help. Here is what I did:

Cut out the largest part of the cast iron.



It was still sticking out somwhat so I made a couple of holes which will be patched and hidden behind the tiles.



Again, thanks much!

 

Looks like a real pro job. Thanks for showing us the solution. It may help someone else.

 

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