How To Install Pipe Through Concrete Wall

Getting the core drill set up is the hard part.

How to install pipe through concrete wall.

If you went through the wall you d want special framing and finish trim not just a pipe sticking through cedar shakes. Cut away a 10 inch by 2 foot section of flooring. 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. Feed the pipe through the hole and run it all the way around the foundation.

A true concrete hammer drill like a bosch sds type will drill through it like swiss cheese. Drilling the actual hole is the easy part. 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.

How to run a pipe through a concrete block wall setting up a core drill. Step 5 finish filling the trench. A small perforation of the foundation is not going to weaken it in any way. I would say drilling through the foundation is a lot less inherently bad than going through the wall.

Use the hole saw to cut a 4 1 8 inch circular hole in the concrete block wall. 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. Seal up around the pipe at both ends with a concrete sealing caulk. For a 3 inch pipe use a drill and reciprocating saw to cut a hole about 4 1 4 inches by 10 inches through both the bottom plate of the room you are working in and the top plate of the room below.

Most core drills are heavy cumbersome tools to work with so this is the time to recruit a.