XTN
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Ok... 1930's Brooklyn tenement. Replacing vanity with a pedestal sink (my Mistress insisted).
The 1 1/2" drain stack is in the wall to the left of where the sink can be placed and located about 12" from it.
There is a threaded pipe going into the stack and the previous owner devised (after a few beers, I can only speculate) a fun solution. Naturally I'm hesitant to unscrew anything for fear of it crumbling. I do have about 5" of horizontal protrusion to work with. And a hacksaw.
I will be tiling both walls but want to have the stack accessible and the pipe for the drain clean-looking
My initial thought was to have an access panel for emergencies and to run painted galvanized pipe or simple chrome brass from the stack to the recess in the back of the pedestal base.
To do so, I would need to take a left turn, run it to the back wall, take a right and then Another right to the p-trap directly under the sink. Hard to describe, but I will try to upload a photo. Sounds funky, right?
It's just a sink, there's not a lot of draining volume. Teeth brushing, hand washing, shaving.
Of course I'd love to bury it in the wall, but should it ever need to be snaked, the hard right angle fitting I'd have to use would cause chaos. That leaves me with external pipe
Still reading? Good.
Now do I have to worry about drain angle? I could slant the straightaways. What about the elbow to the stack? Doesn't it need to be a graceful curve? This would make the pipe protrude away from the tile and I'm hoping to keep it as close as possible.
I was also thinking of a removable,rubber coupler, but they're ugly as sin.
This is what 85 years of plumbing advancement and cheap repairs produce. Rent controlled apartments are nice financially (for the tenant), but eventually the margins become so thin that only the basics get attended to at minimal cost. Now that it's co-op, I have years of f@¢kery to attend to.
So. Advice? Solutions? Caveats? Crossion issues? Call a plumber? Thank you in advance.
The 1 1/2" drain stack is in the wall to the left of where the sink can be placed and located about 12" from it.
There is a threaded pipe going into the stack and the previous owner devised (after a few beers, I can only speculate) a fun solution. Naturally I'm hesitant to unscrew anything for fear of it crumbling. I do have about 5" of horizontal protrusion to work with. And a hacksaw.
I will be tiling both walls but want to have the stack accessible and the pipe for the drain clean-looking
My initial thought was to have an access panel for emergencies and to run painted galvanized pipe or simple chrome brass from the stack to the recess in the back of the pedestal base.
To do so, I would need to take a left turn, run it to the back wall, take a right and then Another right to the p-trap directly under the sink. Hard to describe, but I will try to upload a photo. Sounds funky, right?
It's just a sink, there's not a lot of draining volume. Teeth brushing, hand washing, shaving.
Of course I'd love to bury it in the wall, but should it ever need to be snaked, the hard right angle fitting I'd have to use would cause chaos. That leaves me with external pipe
Still reading? Good.
Now do I have to worry about drain angle? I could slant the straightaways. What about the elbow to the stack? Doesn't it need to be a graceful curve? This would make the pipe protrude away from the tile and I'm hoping to keep it as close as possible.
I was also thinking of a removable,rubber coupler, but they're ugly as sin.
This is what 85 years of plumbing advancement and cheap repairs produce. Rent controlled apartments are nice financially (for the tenant), but eventually the margins become so thin that only the basics get attended to at minimal cost. Now that it's co-op, I have years of f@¢kery to attend to.
So. Advice? Solutions? Caveats? Crossion issues? Call a plumber? Thank you in advance.