Plumbing & Boarding up the Window

With the plumbing wall removed I was able to take down the old cast iron plumbing. I had to pull up the linoleum and some floor boards in the upstairs bathroom to access everything easily.

I also had to cut away some of the sheetrock in the wall to get the vent pipe out.

With all the old plumbing removed I was able to install new PVC.

With the plumbing done I went ahead and put up scrap 1x6's to shim out the upper walls in the Foyer just like I did in the Parlor.

I also boarded up the window opening with the 1950's paneling turned backwards.

It matches pretty well.I will sand the edges smooth and caulk before I paint. It should blend in pretty well.

Sunroom Plumbing wall removal

The sunroom was originally a wrap-around porch that wrapped around from the front of the house. It was built sometime in the 1940's. There is a bathroom directly above the Foyer and the plumbing ran down the sunroom wall, It appears that the plumbing wall was built sometime in the 50's.

The wall is about 1' deep.

I made an interesting discovery when removing the wall.

There was a window here before.I wasn't expecting this because the stairs are on the other side of the wall.

Another interesting discovery is the stud in the wall, you can clearly see the saw marks on it.

Saw marks in a V shaped pattern like this are indicative of being cut with a hand operated pit-saw. Another interesting discovery is the "shoulders" in the window trim. You can see the notch in the siding where the trim jutted out further at the top than everywhere else. This is a Greek Revival characteristic that went out of fashion right around the mid 1860's. These two things almost surely date the house to the earlier of my two possible dates, 1859.

As you can see the doorway was originally a window also.