My house was built around 1983. The original silcock was pretty well mudded over with mortar. When it leaked, they pulled the guts out and welded some adapters and tubing onto it and just screwed another silcock on. Guess they did not want to chip away the mortar. Well, the weld cracked and the monstrosity leaked. Tried some JB water-weld and it slowed it it down, but I know that is not a permanent fix. I tried to see what I had from the crawl space, but because of the new AC venting, there is just no way I can work on it from inside. There is no separate shutoff for the silcock I carefully chipped some mortar away and exposed some pipe. It took forever because I did not want to bust the pipe. Can anyone please look at the attached pictures and tell me if it is a threaded adapter or if the silcock was sweated on. This has been a real pain and I don't want to just start to torque on a pipe and and then have a real problem. Maybe its wishful thinking, but I swear I think I see some plumbers dope there! Thanks so much for your help.

Hi! I am trying to figure out how I would go about installing a stacking washer and dryer in a closet. The dryer would be a ventless dryer (which requires a drain) because I have no dryer vent and installing one would require going through 2 walls. There is already a supply box for the washer (supply hoses and properly trapped and vented drain). I don't think the washer and dryer can share the drain in the box though (it is a tight fit and 1.5inch in diameter). However, whoever remodeled the house before installed a 2 inch ABS drain pipe sticking out of the wall horizontally (no trap, but I believe it shares venting with the washer drain). I managed to get a 45 degree elbow and a vertical piece of ABS pipe installed to that. Pic here: [url=http://imgur.com/euNqdco]Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet[/url] I know that it now needs a trap, but before I go any further I wanted to ask about feasibility. My next idea is to install another 45 degree elbow, a horizontal piece of ABS pipe for a "trap arm" (since it is 2in pipe this has to be at least 4 inches long?), a P trap, and then a vertical pipe on that for the dryer to drain into. A rough sketch (please excuse my paint skills): [url=http://imgur.com/FT7uFAs]Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet[/url] Since the dryer would be sitting on top of the washer the whole thing needs to be a total of 70 inches or taller (Washer height plus minimum standpipe height of 30 inches). Will this work at all or should I give up? Thanks!!