Background: bought the house in 2020, barely got an appraisal through, no inspection. I spent 15 years in general commercial construction trades, plumbing, sparky, paint, etc. My main focus was the electrical.

Skip forward to last summer, wife says the tile wall in the upstairs bathroom looks weird. I ignore it, maybe it'll go away. Fast forward to this past Valentine's day and tiles started falling off. Fine. Ignore it another month until we had some money. By April 1, bathroom was stripped to studs.

I need a break, start slacking a bit just doing pieces at a time. Finally get to the point where I'm ready to start installing the new shower. Throw the floor pan down to dry fit, Mark my drain, drill a hole. Find pipes where my trap needs to go. Ok, well the plumbing is literally scraps from another project because previous owner was a major tightwad.

Go down in the basement, rip out an ugly paneled bump out on the wall and find the disaster zone. Lots of evidence of water leaks through the years. Cast iron going to the toilet looks like a main culprit.

These are all the before pictures. I haven't started replacing anything yet, because in still trying to wrap my head around things.

My main question for this rant post is how bad does the cast iron really look? And how screwed am I going to be pulling all this crap out?