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Slow Draining Bathroom Sink, help
My sink drains very slowly. It will fill up while washing your hands and take about a minute to clear. The tub/shower in the same bathroom drains fine. I removed the trap and did not find any blockage....
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Can I eliminate a shower drain by connecting to another stack?
I am remodeling my basement bath that the previous homeowner installed (concrete subfloor).
Their shower pan was placed on top of a small, raised platform (~4" tall) which I always thought was ...
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Have I properly vented my bathroom remodel?
4 years ago I purchased a 30yrs abandoned home and started doing its remodel. The house is 1 level on a concrete slab and all the plumbing was Cast Iron for drains and galvanized pipes for water. I've ...
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Bathroom plumbing -Is it right?
My 1940 bathroom plumbing was just replaced and I am questioning whether the set-up is proper. Here is a picture. Long 2” pipe at bottom is for the bathtub/shower, fixture at top left is the toilet ...
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Plumbing Basement Bathroom review
I'm plumbing a basement bathroom. Here's the basic layout: sink, toilet, shower. Will the pictured setup pass code? All vents are 1.5in. and will be taken to the wall. The 60° elbow on the shower will ...
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Do I need to remediate the existing drain waste vent system in my bathroom?
I’m refurbishing my master bathroom, and during demolition I noticed some potentially incorrect plumbing as part of the DWV system. I’ve attached a rough drawing of the DWV layout.
This bathroom was ...
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How do I re-route my main plumbing stack to make room for in-the-wall taps?
We're in the middle of renovating our upstairs bathroom. My lovely and amazing wife has bought two vessel sinks and in-wall mounted faucets. After removing the drywall we have sorrowfully discovered ...
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Will Air Admittance Valves help me? If so, where to place them?
This is my first question so apologies if its not the highest quality. will do better over time.
My primary question is: based on the current plumbing layout, what problems am I likely to experience, ...
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connecting p-trap to female galvanized tee
This may be a simple problem, but I'm not so knowledgeable about this section of the drainage system specifics.
So, I have a bathroom sink with PVC trap, and I replaced the popup assembly. The pipes ...
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Help with new install of small bathroom in basement?
I'm installing a brand new bathroom in my basement! I'm a DIYer, so after lots of learning, I'm looking for some experienced advice with the layout. I've only done remodels, not new installs.
I'm ...
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Wet Venting Combined Bathroom and Washing Machine
I am about to fully re-do the plumbing in my bathroom and could use some advice on my current layout. I am in a UPC region.
This house has a single bath with drain lines in a crawlspace, single story ...
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New bathroom design - stack pipe
I am trying to add a new bathroom in the attic for kids.
Here is idea 1, my doubt is that could I join the toilet drain into the laundry drain? Does that cause any issues like the smell?
I am new to ...
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Basement bathroom -- acceptable wet vent to use wye into main sewer line?
I finished my basement and added a bathroom (sink + toilet) and a wet bar (sink). I am using a SaniPLUS system. My original plan was to (reluctantly) run an open air vent from the basement, up ...
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Is this wet venting solution ok?
I am completely redoing my basement bathroom and am wondering if this way of venting the plumbing is ok. From what I've seen, wet venting is the most money and time efficient way to do it, so I would ...
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What is the proper and best way to drain and vent this bathroom?
The green lines are existing vent for shower.
The black lines are proposed bathroom sink drain and p-trap.
The red lines are option 1 for vent for bathroom sink.
The blue lines are option 2 for vent ...
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Need help roughing out DWV for new double sing location
I am trying to move a double sink vanity to the wall on the left where we closed in the closet door. This 1977 floor plan didn't make a lot of sense to us so we are doing a full remodel of the ...
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Toilet and given vertical soil stack and no wall space behind
I'm planning out a new second floor bathroom in a historic home and I'm not finding many examples.
The best placement for the soil stack is to come up directly under the toilet. The best place for ...
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Basement Bath Drain/Vent Help
I'm finishing my basement, and adding a bath in the process. I'm hoping to get some help with drain/vent questions. The current stack is right in the middle of where the new shower will be. I'm moving ...
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Difficulty (drain plumbing wise) in splitting a large bathroom on the second floor into two bathrooms?
We have a large main bathroom and we'd like to split it so we have a small master bath and a smaller main bath. Layout wise, door wise, etc, we think it will fit but we're trying to gauge the ...
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Modern half-bath copper DWV configuration
First off: I KNOW PVC is fine. I KNOW PVC is cheap. I KNOW PVC is fast. I KNOW PVC is more flexible. I KNOW PVC would still be working [sarcasm] 300 years after I'm dead.
Now that I've sufficiently ...
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Are these bends in the tub drain going to be an issue?
Im getting ready to run the drain for my basement bathroom but I'm concerned that I have too many turns in the tub drain. I had to start in the wrong direction in order to pick up a wall for a vent. ...
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Where are vents required for bathroom drains?
Here is a diagram of the new drain plumbing we are installing for one and a half new bathrooms.
Where should I locate any required vents on these lines?
I live in Oakland County, MI and it looks they ...
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Dealing with a toilet that doesn't have an air vent
We have a powder room on the main floor with a toilet that has a sluggish flush. It's not clogged. While investigating the issue I discovered that neither the toilet nor sink in the powder room is ...
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Bathroom Drainage/Vent Layout
So I've been doing a full remodel of our bathroom given water damage from the last owners. I've gone down to the joists & studs. Now I'm looking at drainage/venting solutions. I've got a few ...
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Venting Plumbing AFTER drywall is up
First, some set up:
My friends and I have been building a sort of Mancave over the last year. It's about 300 square feet, with a height of about 14 feet -- half of the place has a loft (making ...
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How can I vent a bathtub trap when the drain is routed under the tub?
I am … very slowly … thinking about replacing the probably circa 1950's galvanized steel drain pipes in my basement with PVC. In particular, I would like to replace the drain line under ...
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Toilet, sink and shower blocked
I live in a block of flats in China. I had a lot of friends over a couple of days ago and since the toilet, sink and shower are all blocked.
The water on all those items does go down, but really, ...
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What can I do if drain alignment doesn't allow enough space for p-trap?
I'm remodeling my bathroom. The sink drainage come up from the floor. The alignment between that and the drain coming from the sink doesn't have enough space for a p-trap to be installed so it just ...
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Sink tailpiece doesn't line up with trap
After installing a new bathroom sink, the drain tailpiece doesn't line up with the trap coming out of the wall. I've seen flexible accordion hoses for this, but I think that violates code (P3002.3.1)....
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Basement Bathroom Rough-In Configuration
I'm investigating if I can use an existing basement bathroom rough-in as is.
To date, everyone I've asked has said the concrete needs to be broken up and the plumbing re-arranged. I think the tub ...
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Why is my bathroom drain stinky even after being cleaned out?
My bathroom drain stinks! The smell gets worse after you run the water. My husband cleaned the P-trap and I cleaned the drain itself. I used baking soda and vinegar about a month ago and it worked, ...
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How should I center a light fixture when there's a vent stack in the way?
I've got a wastewater vent stack that is dead-center behind the master bath vanity. (See attached picture.) Previously, there was a single light fixture. You can still see the box, which wasn't ...
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Decipher my bathroom rough in
Can someone help me decipher this picture? When I had the house built, the builder roughed in a bathroom for later use. The pipes in this picture are
A 2" pipe, possible a vent with a T connector (...
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How can I reattach a drain pipe that detached under the sink?
Recently, I had a clog in my bathroom sink that I wanted to attempt to fix myself. Believing the clog to be in the P-trap, I bought a pipe wrench, removed the trap, cleaned it out, and attempted to ...
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Can I vent my bathroom exhaust fan into a plumbing drain vent?
I installed a bathroom fan in the ceiling. My bathroom is in the room right next to the laundry room. The washing machine has the standard drain pipe vent of a pvc pipe venting to the outside ...
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How to fix broken toilet flange from over tightened bolt?
I broke my PVC toilet flange when I over-tightened the bolt used to secure the toilet to the flange. How do I fix this without replacing the entire PVC fitting? This PVC flange is glued to the drain ...
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How can I properly vent a basement toilet & shower using an AAV?
When we bought our house the plumbing drains for a basement bathroom were roughed in but they did not install any vent lines for them.
We have the first floor plumbing draining into the main stack ...
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New Vanity: Sink Won't Drain Completely
My wife and I just replaced the vanity in our bathroom. To fit the new sink, we had to cut some new PVC. Here's a picture.
All the plumbing works, without leaks, except that it will not drain ...
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Can a plumbing vent go up and then back down to the connection with the vent stack?
I am changing the location of all the fixtures in my bathroom. This move will put the toilet and sink on the opposite wall from the stack. I was originally planning on running a vent up the wall ...
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Why are there bubbles in my bathroom toilet and sink?
I have had a lot of really odd things happen in my bathroom this weekend and I want to make sure it is nothing too serious.
Ok so when I was taking a shower I heard the toilet bubble up. A few ...
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Is it possible to install a pump to fix a slow drain?
We have a combination shower/tub enclosure in our bathroom here in Norway. The floor drain in our bathroom was placed in a very unfortunate location, such that the water draining from the tub/shower ...
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