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Ok, I've found a lot of helpful information that is similar to my situation, but nothing that seems to quite match exactly, and rather than piece conflicting things together, I thought I would simply state my circumstances to see if I can get a more complete recommendation. Here goes...
We recently bought our first house (built in 1972) and we're completely ripping out and redoing a bathroom in the basement that was done almost entirely wrong. The toilet and vanity function perfectly fine (both run into the main stack witch happens to run through the corner of this bathroom). The shower is the area I have questions about.
First some basic info. The basement floor is poured concrete. There is a 6" cast iron floor drain with a clean out plug in this bathroom already (we live in rural Minnesota so we have a septic system, incidentally). I'm considering ways I can adapt this area into a tiled shower (previous owners were basically using this drain as it is for a rudimentary "shower" and I'm interested in redoing it more correctly.)
I'm planning on using the vapor barrier/cbu method for the walls, and was considering some variation of the deck mud/membrane treatment for the floor, as there is already considerable 'pre slope' in the concrete as it is. I guess my question revolves around the best actual drain solution since I realize there is some demolition involved and I want to make sure I know what I'm getting into before I start busting up the floor. So...
My main question I suppose revolves around the 'venting' issue... I've read about people breaking up concrete, removing the cast iron drain/trap then using a shielded clamp/coupling to attach their shower drain piping to the cast iron pipe. What might be the recommendation in terms of venting in this situation? The floor drain is only about 5' from the main stack, but the clean out plug is on the opposite side of the drain, which I assume means the plumbing underneath runs that direction (i.e. away from the stack, but towards the septic system itself, I suppose, and actually towards the other floor drain in the basement about 10 feet away which is close to the washer and dryer).
I'm trying to absorb a lot of new information here, so my apologies if these questions appear... uneducated...
Ok, I've found a lot of helpful information that is similar to my situation, but nothing that seems to quite match exactly, and rather than piece conflicting things together, I thought I would simply state my circumstances to see if I can get a more complete recommendation. Here goes...
We recently bought our first house (built in 1972) and we're completely ripping out and redoing a bathroom in the basement that was done almost entirely wrong. The toilet and vanity function perfectly fine (both run into the main stack witch happens to run through the corner of this bathroom). The shower is the area I have questions about.
First some basic info. The basement floor is poured concrete. There is a 6" cast iron floor drain with a clean out plug in this bathroom already (we live in rural Minnesota so we have a septic system, incidentally). I'm considering ways I can adapt this area into a tiled shower (previous owners were basically using this drain as it is for a rudimentary "shower" and I'm interested in redoing it more correctly.)
I'm planning on using the vapor barrier/cbu method for the walls, and was considering some variation of the deck mud/membrane treatment for the floor, as there is already considerable 'pre slope' in the concrete as it is. I guess my question revolves around the best actual drain solution since I realize there is some demolition involved and I want to make sure I know what I'm getting into before I start busting up the floor. So...
My main question I suppose revolves around the 'venting' issue... I've read about people breaking up concrete, removing the cast iron drain/trap then using a shielded clamp/coupling to attach their shower drain piping to the cast iron pipe. What might be the recommendation in terms of venting in this situation? The floor drain is only about 5' from the main stack, but the clean out plug is on the opposite side of the drain, which I assume means the plumbing underneath runs that direction (i.e. away from the stack, but towards the septic system itself, I suppose, and actually towards the other floor drain in the basement about 10 feet away which is close to the washer and dryer).
I'm trying to absorb a lot of new information here, so my apologies if these questions appear... uneducated...