KrisPfeiffer
New Member
Hi.
I've poked around on this site for a long time, and, until now, only read. It's time to ask a question.
We're about to start finishing our basement. We're in Wisconsin. The house is 3 years old. The basement has a sanitary crock/pump, and the bathroom is completely roughed for DWV. Everything is great...except for the unplanned kitchenette sink. Ugh.
Unfortunately I can't really move where the sink is supposed to go. We've tried many different layouts, and I simply can't get it any closer to anything. There is an existing floor drain approximately 12 linear feet (via a wall I'll build) from where the sink will be. The floordrain runs under the concrete floor, meets up with the drainline from the bathroom, then goes across the basement to the sanitary crock.
I know I'll have to bust up some concrete. My hope is that I don't have to do a lot of that.
A "guy" came over to look at it and had the following advice....
1. Bust up the concrete "downstream" from the floor drain.
2. Use the existing floor drain as a vent - extend it to the nearest vent downstairs (?)
3. Break into the drain pipe downstream from the floor drain. This is where the new sink drain will go.
4. What about the floor drain? If I do #2, that's gone. I still need a floor drain. Put a new one in there, too?
Ok, as you see, I'm very confused. Thanks to a little Photoshop and ever littler artistic talent, as sketch...
The yellow lines are supposed to be walls. That blue thing over there? The cabinets with the new sink.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kris in Wisconsin
I've poked around on this site for a long time, and, until now, only read. It's time to ask a question.
We're about to start finishing our basement. We're in Wisconsin. The house is 3 years old. The basement has a sanitary crock/pump, and the bathroom is completely roughed for DWV. Everything is great...except for the unplanned kitchenette sink. Ugh.
Unfortunately I can't really move where the sink is supposed to go. We've tried many different layouts, and I simply can't get it any closer to anything. There is an existing floor drain approximately 12 linear feet (via a wall I'll build) from where the sink will be. The floordrain runs under the concrete floor, meets up with the drainline from the bathroom, then goes across the basement to the sanitary crock.
I know I'll have to bust up some concrete. My hope is that I don't have to do a lot of that.
A "guy" came over to look at it and had the following advice....
1. Bust up the concrete "downstream" from the floor drain.
2. Use the existing floor drain as a vent - extend it to the nearest vent downstairs (?)
3. Break into the drain pipe downstream from the floor drain. This is where the new sink drain will go.
4. What about the floor drain? If I do #2, that's gone. I still need a floor drain. Put a new one in there, too?
Ok, as you see, I'm very confused. Thanks to a little Photoshop and ever littler artistic talent, as sketch...
The yellow lines are supposed to be walls. That blue thing over there? The cabinets with the new sink.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kris in Wisconsin