PeTACERAS
New Member
Hi,
My wife and I just moved into new construction and would like to install a utility sink to the left of our washer. Running new water lines is straight forward. I'm curious to know the best way to run the drain pipe and connect to the vent per the photos below.
My initial thought was to run the drain parallel to and in front of our existing drain, connecting the utility sink drain to the main drain after the existing vent. Venting would be run from the the new drain to the existing venting, connecting higher than the start of the washer drain @ 44". The image below shows my initial thoughts. I am curious to know if this is the correct approach or if there's something easier.
Below is an image of what we presently have in our basement and where we'd like to put the sink. For what it's worth...
1. The computer equipment at the top of the image is moving. I'm not concerned about that or any other electrical changes that might need to be done.
2. Wall behind the washer/dryer is part of a walk-out basement. It is dry walled and insulated. We don't ever plan on putting drywall over this area to further "finish" the basement.
3. There's ample room behind the washer/dryer for us to run the new drain pipe parallel to the existing drain pipe as shown in the diagram above.
4. The existing drain is low enough to the ground such that we should be able to have a continuous downward slope from the drain of the utility sink to anywhere we connect to on the existing drain.
Any info, considerations, and thoughts are welcome.
Thanks in advance!
My wife and I just moved into new construction and would like to install a utility sink to the left of our washer. Running new water lines is straight forward. I'm curious to know the best way to run the drain pipe and connect to the vent per the photos below.
My initial thought was to run the drain parallel to and in front of our existing drain, connecting the utility sink drain to the main drain after the existing vent. Venting would be run from the the new drain to the existing venting, connecting higher than the start of the washer drain @ 44". The image below shows my initial thoughts. I am curious to know if this is the correct approach or if there's something easier.
Below is an image of what we presently have in our basement and where we'd like to put the sink. For what it's worth...
1. The computer equipment at the top of the image is moving. I'm not concerned about that or any other electrical changes that might need to be done.
2. Wall behind the washer/dryer is part of a walk-out basement. It is dry walled and insulated. We don't ever plan on putting drywall over this area to further "finish" the basement.
3. There's ample room behind the washer/dryer for us to run the new drain pipe parallel to the existing drain pipe as shown in the diagram above.
4. The existing drain is low enough to the ground such that we should be able to have a continuous downward slope from the drain of the utility sink to anywhere we connect to on the existing drain.
Any info, considerations, and thoughts are welcome.
Thanks in advance!