Thank you for this video! I needed more vocabulary to explain what I need for my salon! Many keep telling me I need to break concrete but that would blow my budget… some said I could simply do the “wet vent” thing from the existing plumbing in the restroom to connect my shampoo bowls. I appreciate this video a lot!!!
Thank you very much Greg. I noticed all your videos on plumbing assume wooden frame walls. What is the approach when the walls are made of concrete blocks eg: hollow vs solid?
Hello, I’m adding a utility sink in my basement. There is a 3” vertical pipe with a clean out in it. This goes down through the concrete floor and up through the ceiling upstairs in my ranch home. So basically your exact example. I don’t know that I’ll be able to move this pipe once cut so I bought two repair couplings with the smooth inside. Will I be able to add my 3” to 1.5” wye with these repair couplings and regular purple and clear primer and cement? Thank you!!
Thank you! Awesome video. I'm going to go take some measurements and see if I'm beyond my 3 1/2 foot limit. Is that a local building code and where might I find it for Kansas City?
I would think so, just make sure you install a trap. The toilet has a trap inside of it, but when you remove the toilet, you will no longer have that trap.
Your videos ARE awesome. I’m trying to finish out a basement. There is a 4” drain line coming down from upstairs. Can I tie into that drainline to add a wet bar sink?
I don't see why not, but the sink might need a separate vent going up past the highest fixture like 6 inches above your upstairs sink. Check with local plumbers or building department to make sure.
Thank you for the video. I would like to install a laundry sink in my basement and I have 2 pipes, a short pipe coming up from the floor which we use for the clothes washer and a floor to ceiling pipe coming down from the kitchen sink above. Can you please help me and tell me which pipe we connect the laundry sink to? I send you a picture if you'd like.
Hello & thank you for your videos! I recently saw an older video, "How exterior wall stucco can absorb moisture from soil..." & am wondering...I am redoing a planter in front of my house & the soil is against the exterior wall stucco. I would like to protect the wall stucco from water in the soil & am considering adding either a 2" layer of cement to the wall and/or 2 coats of liquid rubber. What do you recommend? Thank you!
I don't like that idea. You need something that will waterproof the area or a row of bricks or blocks that will separate the planter from the stucco with some type of air gap and drainage. Email me a picture of the area.
Do the top of the vents need to always be straight or can it turn, how much turning, and can I tie more than one vent together so I only get one exit. Can I exit the house sideways instead of through the roof ?
I've never seen a vent go out the side of a house that didn't go through the roof and I would think you could reverse engineer this to rotate it in different directions.
You might need two separate santees, one for each sink drain and I've never seen a vent come out the side of a building without going up through the roof.
I have mutltiple connections to my wet vent and they did not leave much room between clean out and the floor. I tried connecting my sink drain to a trunk line running off of the wet vent but it doesn't drain well. Would it be OK to drill and tap a 1-1/2" male adapter into the 3" wet vent to get the sink drain line lower than the trunk line coming in so that it will drain faster?
You will need to use approved fittings to meet most building codes and avoid making your own. The drain will need to be low enough also to drain, if that's what you're asking.
It won't be the end of the world and I will be making a video on it in the future. It basically has something to do with the possibility of water creating a suction while draining to pull water out of near by traps.
hello! i love your vids! im doing my house by myself and really helped alot, i have a question, due to the high rise in wood prices (at least in my country) i have no longer acces to yellow pine. im planning to use elliotis pine, can you tell me if this is possible as it is not strong as the yellow pine? thank you!
Been looking at a Cleanout plug on side of my house next by a Shed. I will be cutting Stucco soon to add small Slop sink. Large vanity on inside double sink will allow hot and cold to be punched through to outside sink. Phoenix desert 🏜 Do you think minor Freeze precautions like an inside shut-off valves enough?