Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - Need basement bathroom
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09-29-00, 07:35 PM
I'm thinking about building a small bathroom (sink & toilet) in my partially finished basement and I'm not sure about the toilet part of this project. I will probally put it diectly below the first floor bath near the toilet drain pipe. Is there a certain toilet that I need? I suppose it will need to flush "up" into the drain pipe. Any information would be geatly appreciated. Thanks.
09-30-00, 07:35 PM
Homebob:
You don't have to get the toilet to flush "up". The drain pipe from the upstairs toilet goes down below the basement concrete, and then heads for the city sewer system in front of your house. Stand directly under the basement toilet and you should be right beside a big pipe that goes into the basement floor. You will ultimately be connecting the new toilet to the base of that pipe.
I'm not a plumber, and I don't know the plumbing code regarding this. In the plumbing forum I have read that if you want to add a second toilet to the upstairs of a house, you have to run a completely separate vertical drain pipe to service that toilet and connect to the same drain as the existing toilet in the basement. That would mean that even if the two toilets are right over top of one another, there would still be two stacks in the wall.
However, in my apartment block, I have had the wall open above one of the basement suite toilets and there is only ONE drain pipe in that wall. That would mean that the toilets directly above it on the main and upper floors drain into that same stack, which is supposedly against the plumbing code. However plumbing codes change from place to place, time to time and from residential to commercial buildings, so maybe what I've got in my building would be against code somewhere else.
It's the base of that big pipe that goes into your basement floor that you'll probably ultimately be connecting the new toilet and sink drains to.
You don't have to get the toilet to flush "up". The drain pipe from the upstairs toilet goes down below the basement concrete, and then heads for the city sewer system in front of your house. Stand directly under the basement toilet and you should be right beside a big pipe that goes into the basement floor. You will ultimately be connecting the new toilet to the base of that pipe.
I'm not a plumber, and I don't know the plumbing code regarding this. In the plumbing forum I have read that if you want to add a second toilet to the upstairs of a house, you have to run a completely separate vertical drain pipe to service that toilet and connect to the same drain as the existing toilet in the basement. That would mean that even if the two toilets are right over top of one another, there would still be two stacks in the wall.
However, in my apartment block, I have had the wall open above one of the basement suite toilets and there is only ONE drain pipe in that wall. That would mean that the toilets directly above it on the main and upper floors drain into that same stack, which is supposedly against the plumbing code. However plumbing codes change from place to place, time to time and from residential to commercial buildings, so maybe what I've got in my building would be against code somewhere else.
It's the base of that big pipe that goes into your basement floor that you'll probably ultimately be connecting the new toilet and sink drains to.
09-30-00, 07:38 PM
...that line should read "stand directly under the existing toilet" and you should be beside a pipe...