StaceyNeil
New Member
We are now totally discouraged: the bathroom is completely demolished and we don't know what to do next!
Last night we started roughing in all the new drain plumbing for our bathroom renovation on 1920's house.
Originally, the toilet was right next to the stack. Last summer when my husband had to replace the toilet riser he had to saw off the mating surfaces of the flange and elbow to shorten it and make the toilet be able to sit on the floor. But he'd forgotten that when we designed the new bath.
In the new plan, the toilet sits 6' away. So even if we shorten the flange as he did before, that 6' pipe would be level and have no slope.
Ideas we had:
1) raise the subfloor by another 1/2". That could get us a 1/2" slope.
2) The original iron pipe coming off the iron soil stack vent is 4". We'd stepped down to 3" right away with a rubber boot adapter. What if we kept it at 4" for a ways longer (which would lower the bottom of the drain pipe somewhat.?) The problem with that is that it needs to pass through two joists, which are 6.9" actual height. We'd planned to install headers as well as reinforcing the joists we cut through, but that was with 3" pipe: 4" holes will totally ruin those joists I think...
Argh!
Any other ideas?????
Stacey
Last night we started roughing in all the new drain plumbing for our bathroom renovation on 1920's house.
Originally, the toilet was right next to the stack. Last summer when my husband had to replace the toilet riser he had to saw off the mating surfaces of the flange and elbow to shorten it and make the toilet be able to sit on the floor. But he'd forgotten that when we designed the new bath.
In the new plan, the toilet sits 6' away. So even if we shorten the flange as he did before, that 6' pipe would be level and have no slope.
Ideas we had:
1) raise the subfloor by another 1/2". That could get us a 1/2" slope.
2) The original iron pipe coming off the iron soil stack vent is 4". We'd stepped down to 3" right away with a rubber boot adapter. What if we kept it at 4" for a ways longer (which would lower the bottom of the drain pipe somewhat.?) The problem with that is that it needs to pass through two joists, which are 6.9" actual height. We'd planned to install headers as well as reinforcing the joists we cut through, but that was with 3" pipe: 4" holes will totally ruin those joists I think...
Argh!
Any other ideas?????
Stacey