So, the hubs and I are working on an update for the little powder room on our 18 year old home here in GA. We've managed to pull out the builder-installed pedestal sink and are ready to install a new cabinet, sink, etc. Because the water lines and the drain all come up from the floor and not the wall, I'm going to have to do some "creative carving" on the new vanity cabinet. It would help matters a bit if we could install an S-trap from the sink drain tail piece over to the drainage pipe going down into the floor. Now, after doing some reading, I learned that s-traps are not to code and P-traps are--Then I wondered why the heck we had NO-trap--it was just a straight pipe going down to the floor. Then I went downstairs to our unfinished basement, looked up, and *voila* there it was. The p-trap is below the floor of the bathroom. (Hope we never drop something expensive in the sink drain . . . Doh!)
So . . . my question is, because we still have a p-trap, would it be okay to install the s-trap to bridge the distance between the current drain and the tail piece, or do I just need to suck it up and sacrifice the drawer in the new cabinet to keep the existing "straight down" configuration?? I'm attaching pictures below of the existing set up and of the p-trap I took when I went to the basement.
So . . . my question is, because we still have a p-trap, would it be okay to install the s-trap to bridge the distance between the current drain and the tail piece, or do I just need to suck it up and sacrifice the drawer in the new cabinet to keep the existing "straight down" configuration?? I'm attaching pictures below of the existing set up and of the p-trap I took when I went to the basement.