A friend of mine recently moved out of state. When his house didn't sale, he decided to rent it.
He asked me to patch some wall holes and minor paint, cosmetic touch ups. During his move and while I was touching things up we noticed water dripping from ceiling. There was a small 1/4 inch plastic line running from one wall area to another… an obvious home job, but it sprung a pin hole leak, and I couldn't locate the source of the line as it was covered up either behind shiplap in the laundry room or somewhere else. We shut off the water to the house, fixed the line and then moved on.
Well- 6 months later he calls and asked if I know anything about removing shiplap. Yup, super easy just remove 1 board at a time.
Why I ask… well the line spring a leak again, and the renter tried to fix the line and fell through the ceiling. lol
He had a plumber come out and sure bough. Determined the little plastic line was tied into the water pipes for the washer, in the utility room.
So rather than pay a plumber to cut holes or $140/hr to remove shiplap he hired me for a couple cases of beer.
As I remove more shiplap, more things come to light.
1) the dryer vent is a repurposed gutter spout, with duct tape as the bottom venting into the ceiling. And he cut through the entire ceiling header to install it.
2) the precious owner shiplap led over their natural gas cut off valve
3) they used a saddle clamp/valve to tie into the copper line to run their crummy plastic line that kept popping
4) they used fernco adapters to tie copper to pvc for the washer hot/cold lines
5) rathe than install new outlet boxes to properly joint wires etc, they just squeezed everything really tight. Of course as I'm removing the outlets bare wires touch the sides and arc/short out.
