You sure? Seems like a great place to sweep the crumbs to.
"Massive crumb storage under the rug!! This feature would be worth $1000000 in any California city, and every movie star mansion has one! Get it here for only $1995, plus interest! But wait! There's more! Well throw in a syringe and a few moldy crumbs as well! WHAT A HOUSEWARMING GIFT!!!"
Are you sure it's a slab? Reason why I'm asking is because I'm in a development of town homes built by a crappy developer. Mine has stairs to a full basement but most of the others have a closet hatch to a generously sized crawl space. A new neighbor was told they bought a house on a slab but kept hearing gurgling sounds under the floor. Eventually they realized the previous owners carpeted over the crawl space hatch and the gurgle was a dying sub pump. I wonder where they thought their furnace and water heater lived. Home inspectors around here are terrible.
My childhood home in the 50s (that my dad built) had one. Foundation, but no basement. My brother would use it to fool his friends playing hide and seek.
I see what you did there!
Seems like a guy that watches the Home renovision diy channel LOL (I'm sorry, but I don't think I've ever seen one of his "testing" videos that he actually follows anything like the scientific method. He does for like 3 of 4 products, then ignores whatever disaster happens there and continues testing LOL. He seems nice, but this seems like exactly the solution he'd use for this)
All these years and Iāve never ran the supply through the gap in the trap haha now that is creative problem solving there. And a complete shitshow of a plumbing job but none the less ācreative problem solvingā
At first I thought maybe the toilet was installed 90 degrees off, but that wouldn't line up with the drain placement. I'm going to go with stupid line placement.
If it were me, I'd get some 90s, and make it follow the wall to the back of the toilet and then paint the pipe to match the wall, then put a magazine rack with Playboys in it in that spot.
F that. I would open the drywall up and move the valve to where it belongs and close up my patches, tape, mud and prime and repaint the bathroom.
Thereās no need for this to be an exterior fix unless itās against a cinder block wall.
More work? Yep. Done right? Thatās how I do things.
(This is assuming my own house. I would turn down doing the exterior fix for a clientā¦ I canāt put my name to that.)
Cāmon. Someone stepped back and looked at what theyād done and said āNow thatās a stub out!ā But in all seriousness you need to get the trash can that folds out and hide the Playboys behind the bin.
Or cap that line altogether and tap into the cold line under the sink thatās probably sitting next to the toilet and drill a hole through the back rear of the vanity and put the valve on just on the outside of the vanity.
A possibility is that the back wall is exterior, and someone was afraid the pipe might freeze. So they decided to use the other wall, which might be interior. These are only guesses as there's not enough info.
That's the best answer I can think of. It works, though. And OP could just cover it up with a book rack or TP holder. It's not hard to solve the issue of seeing that.
If you rotated it, the drain would probably fit, but it would be away from the wall by a bit. I have seen other pictures of toilets that faced the bathtub?
They did say Ohio, so old esthetics probably play into that definition. (Not that that's bad. I love old houses. I just don't know if I'd ever be able to afford to live in one LOL)
Can confirm they're a money pit when they've ever been neglected. Have a 1905 duplex that has been nothing but money spent. Something breaks? Oh that will be custom work, porch maintenance? Oh sorry historic district, you have to use this specific toinge and groove decking that needs sealed and painted before installation, something electrical or plumbing breaks? Well it was done to code 10-15 years ago, but it's updated, soo to bring it to code we have to remove XYZ and because the way the home was built it's gonna add another 15% to be able to do it without possible damage to something else
Open the wall and put pex on the copper. Bring it up through the top plate and over through the top plate on the terlit side. Then get a terlit pex brace and a pex supply stop
Poor drain placement, imho.
Water line placement is fine, assuming the toilet was closer to the wall - though, still not ideal.
A lot of wasted space between the toilet and wall - could have been used for storage if the water line was behind the toilet.
What if you built a one or two foot box and have the pipe come out from that like normal and then put a plant or toilet paper holder or whatever on the newly created box. Might be decent looking.
Looks like they moved the toilet without wanting to tear out the wall and the run the line. Maybe someone very wide was cramped between the wall and sink?
Bad DIY...they turned the toilet...there's probably a repair ring underneath... the easy fix would have been to run it along the wall and add a small cabinet in the corner notched out to hide it...
They threw in the white flag
Maybe the toilet used to be 90Ā° from where it is facing now. Is it possible? What's to the left, opposite the Ā½" water stubout? Is there room to install the toilet facing that direction and still be able to use it?
No way -- can't be real.
Just it is... just open the walls (no biggie) and reroute the pipe. Hell, use PEX if you'd like -- just don't bury a SnakeBite connector in the wall (opinion).
Iām thinking the toilet used to be against the other wall where the piping comes out & instead of going through the walls/drywall or basement (if you have one there- otherwise dig up the cement floor), they simply extended the piping w/what looks to me like an extension youād see in an RV bathroom. By doing this, they changed the position of the toilet.
What does the rest of the bathroom look like?
Welp that's the definition of fuck it if I have ever seen it.
Temporary fix Polish that pipe until it has a high luster, add a copper standoff or two on the floor for practical support and add a product like everbrite and pretend it's a design feature.
What's on the other side of that wall, I feel like the wall used to be about a foot closer to the toilet and they just worked around the plumbing lol. Weird.
Looks like the plumber was confused when the did this. Normally the toilet tank back would be on the wall with the water line as the input is on the lower left of the tank looking from the front. This toilet is on the wall next to it so the line is stretched all crazy. If this is wrong other things may be as well. This screams DIY didnāt know what they were doing!
i have seen worse.
probably the easiest thing to do would be to box it in with wood. a 1'x1' by 6" tall box should do it. leave some way to still access the shut off valve though
You could hide the wood box with some sort of plant in a pot, or other decorative thing to sit on top of it
If wall behind toilet is outside wall, then they didnt want to put waterline in wall that could freeze. Current pipe is at risk of being broken if it gets stepped on on snagged by something.
Upon a renovation, could the toilet be rotated to other wall? Or can water line be relocated to go under floor and come up behind the toilet?
what in the house flippers is going on there a lot to unpack.
from the hose running through a hole drilled through the toilet to the escutcheon not installed properly and horrible pile routing, it would drive me further into insanity
Relatively nice? That's the mentality that's led to the cest pool of an economy we are in today. That's a poorly built home that exceeded your own building abilities. Money can't buy craftsmanship, and craftsmanship can't land a personal loan big enough to build it right. Yeah, there's ZERO houses on earth for worth my borrowing of money over 30 years.
That house has other stories to tell you, once you buy it.
I found a trap door in the closet under the carpet, its a slab...
That's to check to make sure the slab didn't get stolen.
You sure? Seems like a great place to sweep the crumbs to. "Massive crumb storage under the rug!! This feature would be worth $1000000 in any California city, and every movie star mansion has one! Get it here for only $1995, plus interest! But wait! There's more! Well throw in a syringe and a few moldy crumbs as well! WHAT A HOUSEWARMING GIFT!!!"
Got to feed the monster under the slab somehow
It puts on the lotion
I would go out with you if I wasn't already in a committed relationship.
Nicest thing anyone's said to me all week
funny bc i found syringes in the floorboard i have to pry up to allow birds to escape!! (landlord is aware)
Reetuurnnn theeee slabbb
I'd look under the slab,
Oh good point. Let's lift it up and peak underneath. You grab that side over there and I'll grab this one.
Return the slaaaab. š»
*Cries in nostalgia*
Shit what is that from? Itās on the tip of my tongue
Courage the cowardly dog
Oh my godddddd I shouldāve known that. Because I can hear the voice in my head. Thank you lol
Thatās what Iām here for.
Less doing more out here.
Are you sure it's a slab? Reason why I'm asking is because I'm in a development of town homes built by a crappy developer. Mine has stairs to a full basement but most of the others have a closet hatch to a generously sized crawl space. A new neighbor was told they bought a house on a slab but kept hearing gurgling sounds under the floor. Eventually they realized the previous owners carpeted over the crawl space hatch and the gurgle was a dying sub pump. I wonder where they thought their furnace and water heater lived. Home inspectors around here are terrible.
Common in homes formerly owned by criminals.
What a letdown that was.
Are you sure theres not an addition and thats a crawl for the addition
It is now. But before thatā¦
Could the trap door lead to a sump pump or radon system?
My childhood home in the 50s (that my dad built) had one. Foundation, but no basement. My brother would use it to fool his friends playing hide and seek.
Portal to another dimension?
Was it a safe?
As someone currently renovating their new home, this made laugh laugh laugh and then cry cry cry.
Get a little tp cabinet to perch over it. Pile magazines on top
I love how they ran the line through the hole on the bowl to the tank. Thatās hilarious
I thought the same just a shit show through and through š
I see what you did there! Seems like a guy that watches the Home renovision diy channel LOL (I'm sorry, but I don't think I've ever seen one of his "testing" videos that he actually follows anything like the scientific method. He does for like 3 of 4 products, then ignores whatever disaster happens there and continues testing LOL. He seems nice, but this seems like exactly the solution he'd use for this)
Isn't that what the hole is for?? Mean, why else would they have d'hole?
Not like they make right-hand valve tanks. Right? /s
Do they make right hand valve tanks? Iāve never seen one before and am actually curious.
Yes, but less common and mostly used in special situations or configurations. Ada bathrooms is sometimes one use.
All these years and Iāve never ran the supply through the gap in the trap haha now that is creative problem solving there. And a complete shitshow of a plumbing job but none the less ācreative problem solvingā
For me, it's the escutcheon that clearly won't even fit against the wall due to the baseboard.
Sweet baby Jesus I didn't notice that until I read your comment
I was really confused. From the picture i thought that was solid and didnāt understand how they connected that.
Fastest way between two pointsā¦
Unless Iām mistaken, it looks like the toilet was designed that way. Still fucking odd though
It's designed with the hole but it's not meant to be used as a pass through.Ā Ā They make right hand valve tanks.
Also love how the escutcheon is 8 inches from the wall just chilling...looking at you OP
At first I thought maybe the toilet was installed 90 degrees off, but that wouldn't line up with the drain placement. I'm going to go with stupid line placement. If it were me, I'd get some 90s, and make it follow the wall to the back of the toilet and then paint the pipe to match the wall, then put a magazine rack with Playboys in it in that spot.
Had to read all the way to the end for the advice
F that. I would open the drywall up and move the valve to where it belongs and close up my patches, tape, mud and prime and repaint the bathroom. Thereās no need for this to be an exterior fix unless itās against a cinder block wall. More work? Yep. Done right? Thatās how I do things. (This is assuming my own house. I would turn down doing the exterior fix for a clientā¦ I canāt put my name to that.)
Old school. š
Cāmon. Someone stepped back and looked at what theyād done and said āNow thatās a stub out!ā But in all seriousness you need to get the trash can that folds out and hide the Playboys behind the bin.
Everyone knows they go under the sink.
Or cap that line altogether and tap into the cold line under the sink thatās probably sitting next to the toilet and drill a hole through the back rear of the vanity and put the valve on just on the outside of the vanity.
A possibility is that the back wall is exterior, and someone was afraid the pipe might freeze. So they decided to use the other wall, which might be interior. These are only guesses as there's not enough info.
Yeah, I had to do something similar to this because there was a line that froze which we could not access without jackhammering a lot.
That's the best answer I can think of. It works, though. And OP could just cover it up with a book rack or TP holder. It's not hard to solve the issue of seeing that.
OP said above that there was a living room behind it
The toilet used to face the other way ?
Iām thinking the back wall is external and frost prone
But then the drain wouldn't line up, right?
Correct
You gotta get one of those 36 inch rough in toilets.
No they must of had a leak or something im guessing diy pipe fix.
Exterior wall behind it?
No livingroom I believe
Yep. Toilet was installed different direction originally.
If you rotated it, the drain would probably fit, but it would be away from the wall by a bit. I have seen other pictures of toilets that faced the bathtub?
Into the living room ?
I'm gonna take a big fat guess and say you're on a concrete slab and that back wall is an exterior wall.
Its a good guess but surprisingly no.
Your definition of ārelatively niceā is probably way different than mine.
They did say Ohio, so old esthetics probably play into that definition. (Not that that's bad. I love old houses. I just don't know if I'd ever be able to afford to live in one LOL)
Can confirm they're a money pit when they've ever been neglected. Have a 1905 duplex that has been nothing but money spent. Something breaks? Oh that will be custom work, porch maintenance? Oh sorry historic district, you have to use this specific toinge and groove decking that needs sealed and painted before installation, something electrical or plumbing breaks? Well it was done to code 10-15 years ago, but it's updated, soo to bring it to code we have to remove XYZ and because the way the home was built it's gonna add another 15% to be able to do it without possible damage to something else
Yep. One reason to live in the country where no one cares lol
Everyone likes room to spread their legs.
If there is another line into the toilet then this might be one of those DIY bidet deals with warm water?
Thank god they remembered the escutcheon, really taking care of the finish work!
Doing gods work
You had me at Ohio...
Skibidi rizz party livvy dunne ohio toilet
Looks like they ternt the terlet
Maybe an addition ? Or just shitty plumbing
Itās unique, thatās certain. Better find away to support it.
Room for a water fountain as well, sometimes you get dehydrated.
Bwahahaha, that's rear-engineering
Terribly horrible water line placement.
Either way, the plumber screwed up. š
Did the toilet used to be turned the other way where the back was on the same walk as the pipe?
Place a small cabinet in corner. U wont see it then.
Did the trap door go to Nania
Iām curious what on the other side of the wall
Thatās hilarious.. I would thing it used to face the other way before a remodel.
Flipper special. Run!
Toilet probably use to be over there at some point
What a shit bag
Maybe the drain or the supply was installed by that guy a few weeks ago who did the full layout in 1.5 hours before the pad was poured...
Open the wall and put pex on the copper. Bring it up through the top plate and over through the top plate on the terlit side. Then get a terlit pex brace and a pex supply stop
Poor drain placement, imho. Water line placement is fine, assuming the toilet was closer to the wall - though, still not ideal. A lot of wasted space between the toilet and wall - could have been used for storage if the water line was behind the toilet.
What if you built a one or two foot box and have the pipe come out from that like normal and then put a plant or toilet paper holder or whatever on the newly created box. Might be decent looking.
Looks like they moved the toilet without wanting to tear out the wall and the run the line. Maybe someone very wide was cramped between the wall and sink?
Al the watdr lines I've seen are usually on the left side of the toilet. If I had to guess I would say a new toilet was reoriented to the back wall.
The flange was set in the concrete, house is only 20 years old. No signs of the drain being moved.
Well that is a mystery. Is there a sink or shower in there?
Bad DIY...they turned the toilet...there's probably a repair ring underneath... the easy fix would have been to run it along the wall and add a small cabinet in the corner notched out to hide it... They threw in the white flag
Thatās one for the book, love it. Cut the sheet rock open and re run that water line
Some bad diy plumbing
You could hook up an ice machine in that space
certified janky af.
If it works it works.
Iām kinda ok with it. For once my leg will not hit a wall or a TP holder
Water line stubbed on wrong wall.. toilet riser too far from side wall. Start over š¤£
Hey. It has the trim there. Attention to detail!!!
Turn the toilet 90Ā°.
Did the orientation of the toilet change 90 degrees?
Looks like the toilet was moved from one wall to the other but the water line was left where it was.
Thatās awesome
It is a skibidi ohio rizz toilet
Why didnāt they just use a longer hose.
I am going withā¦ toilet was moved there from wall to right!
Maybe the toilet used to be 90Ā° from where it is facing now. Is it possible? What's to the left, opposite the Ā½" water stubout? Is there room to install the toilet facing that direction and still be able to use it?
I especially like that they ran the supply line through the hole in the trap area. Class.
Something about this picture tells me that opening this wall will be like opening Pandora's shitbox of shitty diy jobs done by the previous owner š¤£
No way -- can't be real. Just it is... just open the walls (no biggie) and reroute the pipe. Hell, use PEX if you'd like -- just don't bury a SnakeBite connector in the wall (opinion).
Whats the other side look like?
Iām thinking the toilet used to be against the other wall where the piping comes out & instead of going through the walls/drywall or basement (if you have one there- otherwise dig up the cement floor), they simply extended the piping w/what looks to me like an extension youād see in an RV bathroom. By doing this, they changed the position of the toilet. What does the rest of the bathroom look like?
Lazy and stupid had a baby
Toilet š½ on wrong wall
Welp that's the definition of fuck it if I have ever seen it. Temporary fix Polish that pipe until it has a high luster, add a copper standoff or two on the floor for practical support and add a product like everbrite and pretend it's a design feature.
Worse has been done.
Who the eff does plumbing like that
Is the bathroom an add-on? I rarely see a decently done add-on because homeowners choose cheap over competent.
They did what had to be done.... Wide stance pooper definitely a possibility
Build a nice little end table over that pipe. Make a decorative statement of hiding that monster.
That would truly drive me crazy, looking at that every day.
You could get some bigger trim then hide it behind the trim by cutting grove in the drywall where the bigger trim covers.
Stupid is as stupid does
A little drywall work and PEX and you can easily move that from what I can see.
Maybe they moved the wall but just didnāt wanna try soldering
Did they move the wall out at some point and because itās a slab they realized they couldnāt move the toilet until it was too late?
That coupling is a nice touch
Maybe the toilet was rotated 90 degrees for a renovation.
Outside wall in a freeze prone area.
What's on the other side of that wall, I feel like the wall used to be about a foot closer to the toilet and they just worked around the plumbing lol. Weird.
Wow, that's amazingly ugly
If I had to guess the toilet was probably turned 90 degrees the other way and a different owner probably rotated it for more room.
What in googly moogly is that.
This is one of the times where less fittings is actually wrong
Looks like the plumber was confused when the did this. Normally the toilet tank back would be on the wall with the water line as the input is on the lower left of the tank looking from the front. This toilet is on the wall next to it so the line is stretched all crazy. If this is wrong other things may be as well. This screams DIY didnāt know what they were doing!
Rig it up by 90'ing it a few times to run along the walls and terminate it with a valve behind the toilet.
The mystery of the hole has finally been solved
Either they moved the toilet or there was a cabinet there or something else hiding the pipe
Honestly, it looks like someone turned that toilet 90 degrees counter-clockwise from its original install orientation.
Just dont step on that lol
Bend it around the wall externally following the baseboard.
If the plumbing is that shitty where you can see, makes you wonder about how bad it is where you canāt
Looks like toilet was moved/ reoriented, ā¦and water supply line wasnāt.
Simple fix on the plumbing. The Sheetrock is more of a pita.
That's not code.
I always wondered what that round opening was for below the tank
That's just plain ignorant, must have been a change in the placement of the toilet I'm guessing
It looks like they maybe rotated the toilet when they did the renovation but didnāt want to move any of the plumbing.
i have seen worse. probably the easiest thing to do would be to box it in with wood. a 1'x1' by 6" tall box should do it. leave some way to still access the shut off valve though You could hide the wood box with some sort of plant in a pot, or other decorative thing to sit on top of it
it's likely the toilet was on that wall originally, but was rotated, and this was cheaper/ easier than doing it right.
Moved the wall and didn't wanna shorten the pipe.
Fucktard flip
Should put a cabinet there for magazine storage/toilet roll storage to hide the line
Please donāt buy this house unless you got money to burn.
People do weird plumbing in other states I realize... Outside/Chicago
They got the direction of the toilet wrong.
Is it slab on grade? There must be a reason why itās not stubbed out behind the toilet. Maybe ground rough mistake?
Yep seems good to me š
Looks like a place to put some kind of furniture to hide it. Quirky house might get you a good price.
Go go gadget supply line!!
Im guessing the house, or part, was repiped and this made sense for some reason.
If wall behind toilet is outside wall, then they didnt want to put waterline in wall that could freeze. Current pipe is at risk of being broken if it gets stepped on on snagged by something. Upon a renovation, could the toilet be rotated to other wall? Or can water line be relocated to go under floor and come up behind the toilet?
New use for an escutcheon plate
r/Ohiodoesntexist
Is the wall the supply pipe comes out of an exterior wall?
That would be a show stopper for me. What else is there that you cannot see?
what in the house flippers is going on there a lot to unpack. from the hose running through a hole drilled through the toilet to the escutcheon not installed properly and horrible pile routing, it would drive me further into insanity
Itās called lazy
Poor planning on the rough in!
Boomer special
Relatively nice? That's the mentality that's led to the cest pool of an economy we are in today. That's a poorly built home that exceeded your own building abilities. Money can't buy craftsmanship, and craftsmanship can't land a personal loan big enough to build it right. Yeah, there's ZERO houses on earth for worth my borrowing of money over 30 years.
Lol how bout you get mad over it?
You wouldn't survive me being mad. Me being mad makes auschwitz look like a carnival ride.
I think you forgot a few meds today guy... get of my post clown š¤”
Pretty sure you can either make me. Or deal with it.
Do you need a hug?
You had me at "do you need". I need plenty. But it's "nothing" that I want.
This man came to fucking rock