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  1. Stereo

    How to drain furnace effluent

    Thank you, but I don't know that it's just a trickle. The pump shoots water out once the water level exceeds the float-switch limit.
  2. Stereo

    How to drain furnace effluent

    I've not heard of those kinds of treatments and assume they would just get washed out. I've actually decided to repeat my previous design of pumping the effluent into a trap in the drain pipe leading to the stack but this time, I'm going to use an AAV to provide a dry vent and use a threaded...
  3. Stereo

    How to drain furnace effluent

    Thanks for that caution. I'll check with the building department.
  4. Stereo

    How to drain furnace effluent

    That looks like it would do the trick. Do you know if the IPC allows a basement floor drain to be wet vented? Our stack serves both a second floor and a first floor bathroom. (The first-floor bathroom is dry-vented.) I seem to recall code saying that first-floor fixtures can't be vented through...
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    How to drain furnace effluent

    I'm remodeling a bathroom and am having to redo all the drain lines. The effluent (pH ~5) from the 25-year-old condensing furnace was formerly pumped into a single unvented trap that was added by an ignorant do-it-yourselfer (who shall not be named :p) to a drain line downstream from other...
  6. Stereo

    Ho to reduce rushing water noise

    Thank you for the suggestions. I do use pressure regulators on my drip hose to drop pressure to 30 psi. What I didn’t know was that I should open the valve fully. I can’t wait to try this simple fix by trying out the regulators with valves wide open on the soaker hoses but I’ll also look into...
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    Ho to reduce rushing water noise

    We run soaker hoses for up to an hour to water our landscape. We barely turn on the outdoor pressure to keep the flow volume low through the rubber hoses. The sound of the running water is quite loud in the house. It may chiefly be due to the noise at the outdoor spigots carrying back through...
  8. Stereo

    Vent check

    Wayne, thank you for the details and references. Much appreciated!
  9. Stereo

    Studor recessed box - correct solvent?

    I'll be using a Studor recessed box to mount an AAV to ABS pipe inside a wall. The directions say the box can be connected to either PVC or ABS using the "appropriate" solvent. Since the box is white plastic, I I am doubting that I can use ABS solvent. I called IPC who makes the valve box and...
  10. Stereo

    Vent check

    Yep. I need a separate vent for the downstream toilet. This video explains it well. I'm posting for anyone having the same question.
  11. Stereo

    Vent check

    After stewing about this, I'm wondering if the upper toilet dry vent really can serve as a vent for the lower toilet. There's that statement from the ICC that's bugging me: "Keep in mind that any additional fixtures outside of the [horizontal] wet vent that are to be drained into the same branch...
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    Vent check

    Thank you, Wayne! I appreciate the thorough explanation. You saved me some work.
  13. Stereo

    Vent check

    Maybe not. I just came across this: "Keep in mind that any additional fixtures outside of the [horizontal] wet vent that are to be drained into the same branch must be connected to the branch downstream of the wet vent."...
  14. Stereo

    Vent check

    I'm a little iffy on the venting of the toilets in a back-to-back 3/4 bath rebuild because of the combination of vertical and horizontal attachments to a horizontal drain line. The photo shows a VERY simplistic drawing of the layout. I have two toilets entering the horizontal drain horizontally...
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