Leroy Brown
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So, I finally have a question it doesn't look like anyone else has asked.
I'd like to do a bathroom remodel in a fixer upper next year and am in the planning stage. The current drain lines are all 3" cast iron from the top of the vent to the septic tank. I've already had a problem once where I had to clean out the tee where the stack turns up and I want to replace all of the 70 year old cast iron.
The problem is 1st floor bathroom toilet placement. The toilet sits directly above the waste line and is currently connected via a sanitary tee straight above the main waste line. I had 2 plumbers I know say this isn't code because the toiler has to be at the end of a branch line.
Pictures attached.
I'd rather not move the commode because there's joists in the way and the bathroom is already small and it's already laid out about as best as possible.
In the future I'd like to add a second floor bathroom and tie it into the stack, but for now I just want to redo the existing bathroom and get rid of this old corroding pipe.
And yes, I'll move all those stupid wires someone wrapped around the soil stack.
20170811_085553 by leroy brown, on Flickr
20170811_085526 by leroy brown, on Flickr
I'd like to do a bathroom remodel in a fixer upper next year and am in the planning stage. The current drain lines are all 3" cast iron from the top of the vent to the septic tank. I've already had a problem once where I had to clean out the tee where the stack turns up and I want to replace all of the 70 year old cast iron.
The problem is 1st floor bathroom toilet placement. The toilet sits directly above the waste line and is currently connected via a sanitary tee straight above the main waste line. I had 2 plumbers I know say this isn't code because the toiler has to be at the end of a branch line.
Pictures attached.
I'd rather not move the commode because there's joists in the way and the bathroom is already small and it's already laid out about as best as possible.
In the future I'd like to add a second floor bathroom and tie it into the stack, but for now I just want to redo the existing bathroom and get rid of this old corroding pipe.
And yes, I'll move all those stupid wires someone wrapped around the soil stack.
20170811_085553 by leroy brown, on Flickr
20170811_085526 by leroy brown, on Flickr
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