Best way to install cleanouts

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Cybermonkey

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Just wondering if anyone had any solid advice on installing cleanouts. I am plumbing an upstairs kitchen and bath and most drains are coming down an exterior wall. My thoughts were to install the cleanouts in the basement. Because of the exterior wall a cleanout at a wye is pretty much out of the question. :confused:Any thoughts?????????
 

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If your stacks run behind cabinetry, did you think about using an inline tee cleanout and have it facing into the cabinet cavity and cut a hole in the cabinet? But yes, installing a cleanout in the basement would be fine. Generally you want one at the bottom of a stack since most times you can snake a line above form a fixture if need be.
 
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Vertical pipes seldom, if ever, get obstructed, so the only place a cleanout makes any sense is just before, or after, it turns into a horizontal pipe, and that usually means they are just above the basement or first floor elevations.
 

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Thanks for the replys. If I install the cleanouts in the basement on a horizontal run do I put the cleanout on top of the pipe, to the side or below. Common sense tells me the top, but that would be hard in the real world. I would think.
 

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You put them in whichever direction access is the easiest, but I would never install them on the bottom. And if they are on the bottom and I have to snake your drain YOU will have to remove the plug for me.
 
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