Horizontal Wet Venting 2 Toilets - Virginia

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I’m in Virginia under IPC and am building the plumbing for these back to back bathrooms in my house. I haven’t done much with wet vents so wanted to get options on this. It’s a lavatory at the far end with a dry vent (2”). That goes through a combo wye to the first WC (wall mounted) with a flat 3x3x3 wye. Then it goes to the nearest WC (normal toilet) with a flat 3x3x3 wye. Will this work?

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This is allowed by the IPC. "Flat" of course means that both inlets have 2% slope downstream. [Well, the IPC allows 1% slope on 3" drains.]

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looks good I dont think you need a 2 inch dry vent but the wet vent portion upstream of the w/c until the lav santee should be 2 if you wante you could continue with 3 inch as you drew it for clean out purposes
 

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looks good I dont think you need a 2 inch dry vent but the wet vent portion upstream of the w/c until the lav santee should be 2 if you wante you could continue with 3 inch as you drew it for clean out purposes
Actually, the IPC allows a 1-1/2" wet vent to carry 1 DFU. So both the lav drain up to the first wye and the lav vent could be 1-1/2".

But I figured 2" is better, since you and I both work under the UPC. : - )

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I saw a ipc drawing showing a 2 inch for 2 toilets but now i realize there was a lav and a tub on the drawing I saw so that pushed it up in size . so good call 1 1/2 would suffice for Virginia looks like he has 2 inch there but Id prefer the 2 inch on at least the wet vent too . but I guess his code works
 

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Thank you for the help! Due to layout constraints I ended up changing the design slightly to this. It has the 2” lav at the far end and this will vent through roof. The 2” lav drains into a wye which goes to 3”. The back part of the 3” will have a clean out. Then both WCs go though 3” wyes. Will this still work?
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Will this still work?
I understand your picture to show that, starting at the 3" cleanout and going downstream, you have:

3" cleanout
3x3x2 horizontal wye receiving the lav drain (no other fixtures)
3" horizontal wye receiving a WC
3" 45
3" horizontal wye receiving a WC

If so, that connectivity is fine for a dry vented lav to wet vent 2 lavatories under the IPC.

Do you have at least 1% slope on the 3" drain between the two WCs? The downstream end of your picture looks surprisingly tight to the subfloor, but pictures can be deceiving on such things.

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Thank you! I believe the drop is ok. For the 3” I’m shooting for between 1/8” to 1/4” per foot. Between the two green lines from clean out to entrance to downstream wye is 5 feet and the drop is 1 1/8 inch.
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