It is not pretty but it should work just fine.
1st floor bathroom plumbing is complete! Also, I was able to run the 3" drain for the master bathroom up to the first floor. Hopefully it will be much smoother sailing from now on...
Thanks to Dad for all of the work adding in reinforcement to the joists wherever I made holes in them.
Joist reinforcement:
I also finished the sewage ejector tie-ins and got its vent up to the first floor. Its vent has to go all the way up to the roof. Sewage ejectors can't share a vent with other fixtures unfortunately.
Awesome....could you explain in more detail what's an ejector tie-in?
ReplyDeleteD-Rock
A sewage ejector is basically a pump for sewage. It's required if the sewer line coming in from the street is higher than the lowest drain in the home. Usually things in drains just flow via gravity but that's impossible if the sewer line going out to the street is higher.
DeleteSince our home lot was originally built without the thought of having a 9-foot deep basement, our new basement space is several feet below the sewer line.
To get around this, you install a sewage basin in the basement floor and have all of your basement fixtures drain into that via gravity. And then you put a pump into the basin to pump/discharge the sewage up a few feet to where it can drain via gravity out to the street in the same sewer line that the rest of the house uses.
When I say "ejector tie-in" I am just referring to where the sewage ejector discharge joins in with the rest of the house sewer connections.