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My house (1940s) is brick on frame in Pennsylvania and has a small concrete porch that partially overlaps the ceiling of the one car garage. There are pavers on the back slab porch that have been trapping moisture against the old brick and river sand mortar; I am removing the pavers so that the...

We are building a house and on a recent trip to the house I was looking more closely at the floor joists and plumbing in the basement. I noticed this hole was cut in one of the 2x10 joists to accommodate a 3 inch schedule 40 PVC drain pipe for a bathroom toilet that is above this location. The...