What is this galvanized pipe or what was it used for?

butchball

Jamie Hall

That's an older downspout pipe, such as used to be used for gutters. What it was used for in that setting I haven't a clue, but I'd bet on a vent of some kind.

Larry Weingarten

Hi, Looks like it might have been a wall furnace vent, though that should be double walled pipe. Does it exit through the roof? Is there evidence of a gas line at the base of the wall?

Yours, Larry

ps, As the wall is open, might be time to get rid of the knob and tube wiring.

mattmia2

Register box or maybe an exhaust fan.

hot_rod

Where is it located? If there was power to it I would guess exhaust fan

what is the termination look like? Does it have a damper/ flapper?

Mad Dog_2

Lemme guess..right under where the stove was?  Mad Dog 🐕 

JUGHNE

Or it was above the stove and gave some gravity flow heat to the second floor.

Couldn't have been much. This was usually done with a thru the floor/ceiling register that would have heated the room above it for sure. You needed to leave the stairwell door open for return.

mattmia2

I have seen a few very old what looked like passive vents above ranges.

EdTheHeaterMan

There's electric in that-thaire wall! See the knob holding the cloth insulated wire?

Intplm.

Back in the nineteen eighties, I went to fix a leak on a drain serving an entire bathroom group. Was the only bathroom in the house. Was a relatively nice place.
Pulled the lathe and plaster down and found that type of old downspout pipe for their main drain!? The customer wasn't ready for the bad news of having to change everything from the second floor to the basement.
When finishing up I asked the customer when the house was built. He said in the nineteen thirties.
I thought, later on, the things people will do out of desperation. This had not leaked for over fifty years.
This pipe was installed during the Depression and lasted all that time.
The above picture brought me back. Wow.

ChrisJ

Intplm. said:

Back in the nineteen eighties, I went to fix a leak on a drain serving an entire bathroom group. Was the only bathroom in the house. Was a relatively nice place.
Pulled the lathe and plaster down and found that type of old downspout pipe for their main drain!? The customer wasn't ready for the bad news of having to change everything from the second floor to the basement.
When finishing up I asked the customer when the house was built. He said in the nineteen thirties.
I thought, later on, the things people will do out of desperation. This had not leaked for over fifty years.
This pipe was installed during the Depression and lasted all that time.
The above picture brought me back. Wow.

Sounds better than Orangeberg,

Intplm.

@ChrisJ ....... Worked with that too. LOL.

Can you believe that the depression era folks who installed that downspout had tied it into a large tin can used as the closet flange for the toilet?

ChrisJ

Intplm. said:

@ChrisJ ....... Worked with that too. LOL.

Can you believe that the depression era folks who installed that downspout had tied it into a large tin can used as the closet flange for the toilet?

I can't even imagine.....