Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - adding a basement stool

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Roeboat109
10-08-07, 09:19 PM
any ideas on what might be a good way to go on installing a bathroom stool in the basement where the water table is a little high in the area and they use a sump pump regularly,but it seems to do a decent job. what type stool should be installed here and how would you go about doing it? any ideas would be helpful.

chandler
10-09-07, 06:30 AM
Are you talking about a toilet? Is the floor stubbed out for a toilet already? Is the flange in place?
mitch17
10-09-07, 07:02 AM
If the plumbing has been roughed in, you're pretty much set. If not, I've seen ads for stools that use a pump to push the waste up to the next level to access the drains there - never seen any info on how well they work.

Roeboat109
10-10-07, 07:31 PM
there never has been a toilet in this basement.
my son just bought this house and the previous owner roughed in where he had a tiolet proposed but nothing done.the plumbing is in the area within six feet or so. my son needs info on what is the best way to go because of the high water table. they knew nothing of this when they bought the house of course. actually alot of houses have this problem. its not that bad.
chandler
10-10-07, 07:39 PM
To rough in means to have the pipes present and ready to be hooked up. If he has water problems, he probably doesn't need to go jack hammering up the floor in order to tie into existing drain pipes. An up flush system seems to be the order of the day. A little more expensive, but sure beats cutting concrete with rebar in it.