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I'm in Tucson. Just saw this or I would have replied sooner. What ya got going on?

 

He started his own thread. Was quite interesting.

 

I just saw it. Looks like he got it figured out. Glue joint failed on the abs flange is what it looked like.

 

Abs sucks. Why is it used outside a mobile home?

 

What's wrong with abs?
I prefer pvc for its straightness but an abs glue joint doesn't "fail". It wasn't glued properly to begin with.

 

While in college I worked at Home Depot and an older gal came in one day panting like a dog asking where the toilets were. A few minutes later a page went out for a spill. She apparently lost the war and left a shit trail from the carpet dept to the restroom. An hour later a call was being made for a plumber, she flushed her panties down the toilet. The weird part is no one ever saw her leave. The plumber said this is very common and a good way to ruin a Sunday

 

Yep
Been there
Seen that

 

Where I work we have rv dumps and have had problem in years past with things like this clogging the box trap screens. Our cure was to install catch bars where the rv hose goes in. Now when something large like that is dumped, the bars usually catch it and the person dumping gets wet feet when it backs up. The concrete slabs are tapered to the inlet so the mess stays contained.

We've found just about anything you can imagine in the box traps from rocks to silverware to adult diapers to clothes...even the "slinky" hoses they use to transfer their tank contents.

 

Pulled this out of movie theater
Had to pull toilet,bust wall and cut into vent

 

Wet wipes (baby wipes). There's another little pile next to it. All told there was about 2-3 gallons of them we pulled out of a screen box and what found their way through the screen to the Y pipe between the screen box and the 2 septic tanks. They totally choked the pipe. Even found an electric hair trimmer in the screen box which is totally appropriate since we also pulled out a ball of hair about the size of a softball. This is all stuff people dump out of their rv tanks.

 

Plumbing question here. I live in a 12 year old subdivision house, so assuming it was built to code, and properly inspected. My laundry tub (main floor laundry room) drains straight through the floor to the finished basement below. The washer is in the same room and drains to one of those drains built between the studs, where the washer drain hose hooks into.

I am puzzled why they would not put a trap right below the laundry room sink. I can only assume the trap is below the floor, but I cannot access it, due to the finished ceiling in the basement. Everything functions fine, and no odours.

My only concern is that if I ever lost anything down the sink, I cannot access it at the trap. What are the implications of putting a trap in below the sink, if in fact there is already one below the floor (i.e. a trap to a trap)?

I have a similar situation in my main bathroom, where one sink is trapped, and the other drains straight through the bottom of the vanity, so I assume it is trapped below the floor.

Thanks!

 

You could put a trap but if it isn’t vented you’d have an s trap

 

If the second pic is after you were done, then......

Good job

 

Looks like a 1/4 turn valve? Much better than the alternative.

 

Is this thread still active? I have a plumber question, please.

 

The plumbers code was told to me the other day. It made my day, so here you go.

You get paid on Friday.
$#it rolls downhill.
Don't bite your fingernails.

Thats it.

 

Ok, the setup.
House on top of big hill. Deep valleys all around. When the wind blows very hard across the the front of the house from the west, the toilet will make a bubbling sound, and septic system gasses are released in the master bathroom. Its BAD!

Vents are on the back side of the house and are in the step up portion after the garage roof being lower.

It has happened about 10 times in 5 years. Always when very very strong storms are blowing in.

I don't know how to fix this. I think it related to air pressure being high on one vent stack, and the other vent stack being sheltered from the wind on the short kids bedroom and bathroom side of the house.

Do you think I should extend the vents up? Or is the a pressure breaker type of thing I could put up on the vent pipe?

Thank you in advance for the help.
I was a plumbers helper for a few months when my neighbor needed a hand for while, but I didn't love it.

 

Never seen it that bad. But you could put a trap weir on vent pipe and or vent the septic tank the same way to maybe help. Just dryfit it onto pipe to see if it helps. I always got complaints on low psi days after a front