Hello everyone, this is my first post to your site.
I am new to owning a house and to attempting any type of plumbing. Dad says you do not need to know much about plumbing except s*** flows downhill.
I used to work as a plumbing/ heating shipper and reciever so I am familiar with some products and how to put them together but not with much else.
The house I purchased is about a hundred years old. All of the plumbing is/was copper. It has a dirt basement. Most of the plumbing is NOW on the northwest wall. The kitchen, bathroom and laundry. I have moved the kitchen and laundry from their original location a few feet to aid my new floorplans. The bathroom stayed basically where it was with the exception of the bathroom sink. I took that out for the time being while framing new walls to make the bathroom bigger. I put a rubber quick plug over old drain. I also will move the location of the bathroom sink and have made the necesarry provision in the new drain already installed for the wash machine, (all I have to do is unscrew a fitting plug in the abs tee and connect the drain) The branch of plumbing that that old bathroom sink was on is now sealed. I am thinking that this was what you would call a wet vented sink as the drain attached to the plumbing below the floor at a 90 degree angle with a pipe that went outside to vent straight up from that. I found it strange that it was 2 inch while the rest of the plumbing was 1 1/2. I cut that out too so it was not in the way. Did I remove the vent for the toilet? I think so but I thought the new vent I made for the wash mach. tub bathroom sink would share that. Maybe that branch of pipe I sealed off (about 4 feet long)is acting like a vacuum chamber to disrupt the airflow to the new vent as it is on the other side of the toilet from my new vent? Most of my work is abs coupled to the existing copper. When I flush the toilet it seems ok but sometimes it takes a couple of flushes. Was a lot better before. When draining the tub the toilet bubbles and the water is sucked out of the toilet right about near the end of the tub draining , does the same thing when the washer drains. Does the toilet have to have its own vent? Is that my problem? My girlfriend really is not happy with me for fixing the house by making it worse than it was. I was quite proud of my kitchen sink vent as the sink drains like an airplane toilet if you arent carefull it will sunk your arm in. Boy was I chopped back down to size when I did this to the toilet. I guessed Dad was wrong when he said that about plumbing. I phoned him to tell him about this and he did not have a clue how to help. I asked him how he figured there was not much to know about plumbing when he can't help me out with this. He said it sounded like a funny expression to get me to try it myself. thank you for reading this it maybe a little confusing sorry no pictures
I am new to owning a house and to attempting any type of plumbing. Dad says you do not need to know much about plumbing except s*** flows downhill.
I used to work as a plumbing/ heating shipper and reciever so I am familiar with some products and how to put them together but not with much else.
The house I purchased is about a hundred years old. All of the plumbing is/was copper. It has a dirt basement. Most of the plumbing is NOW on the northwest wall. The kitchen, bathroom and laundry. I have moved the kitchen and laundry from their original location a few feet to aid my new floorplans. The bathroom stayed basically where it was with the exception of the bathroom sink. I took that out for the time being while framing new walls to make the bathroom bigger. I put a rubber quick plug over old drain. I also will move the location of the bathroom sink and have made the necesarry provision in the new drain already installed for the wash machine, (all I have to do is unscrew a fitting plug in the abs tee and connect the drain) The branch of plumbing that that old bathroom sink was on is now sealed. I am thinking that this was what you would call a wet vented sink as the drain attached to the plumbing below the floor at a 90 degree angle with a pipe that went outside to vent straight up from that. I found it strange that it was 2 inch while the rest of the plumbing was 1 1/2. I cut that out too so it was not in the way. Did I remove the vent for the toilet? I think so but I thought the new vent I made for the wash mach. tub bathroom sink would share that. Maybe that branch of pipe I sealed off (about 4 feet long)is acting like a vacuum chamber to disrupt the airflow to the new vent as it is on the other side of the toilet from my new vent? Most of my work is abs coupled to the existing copper. When I flush the toilet it seems ok but sometimes it takes a couple of flushes. Was a lot better before. When draining the tub the toilet bubbles and the water is sucked out of the toilet right about near the end of the tub draining , does the same thing when the washer drains. Does the toilet have to have its own vent? Is that my problem? My girlfriend really is not happy with me for fixing the house by making it worse than it was. I was quite proud of my kitchen sink vent as the sink drains like an airplane toilet if you arent carefull it will sunk your arm in. Boy was I chopped back down to size when I did this to the toilet. I guessed Dad was wrong when he said that about plumbing. I phoned him to tell him about this and he did not have a clue how to help. I asked him how he figured there was not much to know about plumbing when he can't help me out with this. He said it sounded like a funny expression to get me to try it myself. thank you for reading this it maybe a little confusing sorry no pictures