"Rural" tub drain code

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Verdeboy

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I was working in a double-wide out in the boonies recently. This customer wanted a new tub faucet installed. His drain was all funky. He had the tub drain (flanged piece with stopper) screwed directly into a PVC trap, which was connected almost immediately to a drain pipe with a vent. The tub overflow drained through a hole in the floor onto the ground.

He wants to sell this house, so I told him the inspector would want him to re-do the drain properly. He said that for a rural house they wouldn't care.

In case I wind up re-doing this drain, what is the code as far as the position of the trap and the vent relative to each other and the tub drain assembly?
 

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overflow is before the P trap. Vent is after it. They look similar, and sort of do similar things, but they cannot be mixed.

I don't know if an RV can have an overflow draining to the outside. I do know that an RV tub can have NO overflow at all. Search on tub+"no overflow" in a search engine, and you'll find tubs made solely for the RV market.

So, overflow is connected before the P trap when it exists in the first place. An overflow is an open pipe so it would let insects come in to an RV when piped as you have described.

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Thanks, David.

This domicile is not an RV. It is a double-wide trailer AKA a pre-fab home. It is on ~ 1 acre of land.

I was wanting to know how much space there should be between drain assembly and trap, between trap and vent, etc...
 

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no min distance to trap or vent

no distance until trap, no distance till vent. That is OK.

The min distance between a trap and a stack, is a low multiple of the pipe diameter but i can't remember. Since a vent fitting has its own dimensions, you'll have surpassed the min distance for a tub. AFAIK.

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