What to do with excess pipe sticking out of the wall
The cover ring often does not provide enough coverage to hide the exposed plumbing. You are left having to cut off the excess, embed the wall fitting deeper, or lose valuable room space framing around it when finishing a basement.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Considering cutting off the excess threaded pipeDid this help you?
- 2Embedding the 90-degree wall fitting deeper into the shower wallDid this help you?
- 3Chop out the existing wye fitting and install a double wye.Did this help you?
- 4Raise all the drainage pipes and tie them in vertically.Did this help you?
- 5Raise the drainage and drop it into a wye on its back.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“What do I do with this? Do I cut off the excess?”source ↗
“The ring is only 4mm so not much coverage there. I guess I have to embed the wall fitting deeper.”source ↗
“Builder has this configuration made for the final drainage/cleanout. I want to finish the basement and don’t want to lose a bunch of space framing around it. What are my options to bring it in closer to the wall?”source ↗
Where this came up
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