Ok guys be easy on me. First post & I've had a rough day today.
So our laundry lines were moved from our master bedroom into our garage 5 months ago. Everything worked great until 2 days ago when I heard a distinct bubbling noise in our wall that connects to our garage. Hubby and I started looking under our house and realised that the plumber never installed an air vent!
Last night I found our garage flooded presumably because the waste water backed up. So a call to our contractor was made & he came out with the same plumber again to refix his mistake.
At this point, I handed over the task of monitoring the plumber to my husband. But I suggested that he take a photo after he installed the air vent, just so we could have a photo on hand showing where he installed it & how it ended up looking. I finally came home to see the results and immediately looked at the photo, only to discover that he pulled off a 2 ft section of our firewall in order to fit in the air vent pipe.
I'm livid to say the least. But at this point, am turning to anyone here who can give me some solid advice on how to rectify this situation.
1. can the firewall be patched? If so, what do you use?
2. could a fire retardant spray foam be used to cover this entire area? or do you need to completely patch the firewall back up with original materials?
We have a single family house, 1 car garage. And the firewall sits between both SFH & garage, along one main wall.
Any tips/advice etc would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!
My husband tried to explain that he had to do this because he couldn't fit the pipe into the 2 x 4 + between the laundry lines....anyways, I digress at this point
So our laundry lines were moved from our master bedroom into our garage 5 months ago. Everything worked great until 2 days ago when I heard a distinct bubbling noise in our wall that connects to our garage. Hubby and I started looking under our house and realised that the plumber never installed an air vent!
Last night I found our garage flooded presumably because the waste water backed up. So a call to our contractor was made & he came out with the same plumber again to refix his mistake.
At this point, I handed over the task of monitoring the plumber to my husband. But I suggested that he take a photo after he installed the air vent, just so we could have a photo on hand showing where he installed it & how it ended up looking. I finally came home to see the results and immediately looked at the photo, only to discover that he pulled off a 2 ft section of our firewall in order to fit in the air vent pipe.
I'm livid to say the least. But at this point, am turning to anyone here who can give me some solid advice on how to rectify this situation.
1. can the firewall be patched? If so, what do you use?
2. could a fire retardant spray foam be used to cover this entire area? or do you need to completely patch the firewall back up with original materials?
We have a single family house, 1 car garage. And the firewall sits between both SFH & garage, along one main wall.
Any tips/advice etc would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!
My husband tried to explain that he had to do this because he couldn't fit the pipe into the 2 x 4 + between the laundry lines....anyways, I digress at this point