How Do I Add A Drain In A Slab House

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I want to move my washing machine into a heated back room in my garage. It is curently in the kitchen which is about 15-20 feet away. The house is on a concrete slab and I would like to avoid puting the pipes in the foundation.

Could I run the pipes in a coduit covered with sheet rock from the wet wall and pump the gray water over to the main stack from the room behind the garage?

All comments/ideas welcome.

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That is one way to do it, but maybe not the best way, but only a plumber at the house could tell you if there is a better way. Pumps should only be used as a last resort when there is absolutely no other way to accomplish the task.
 
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Is this one of those new slabs with the tensioning cables embedded in the concrete? that migh qualify as a "last resort" given the difficulty in dealing with them.
 

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post tension slabs

"Difficulty"? How about "impossibility"" since they will void the warranty if the slab is drilled or cut. As an aside, we were drilling holes in a tensioned slab once. The slab had been x-rayed to locate the cables, and the holes were marked to miss them. The driller had quoted a total price based on the core bit lasting for 6 six holes each, but the concrete was so hard that he was only getting 2 per bit. Then as he was drilling a hole about 30 feet from where I was standing I felt the concrete vibrate, his drill made a funny sound, and when he pulled the bit out there was nothing on the end of it. He had hit one of the cables.
 
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