Can I drain into vent?

bloard · Oct 22, 2007

I'm adding two sinks to a basement of a fairly new house. The closest current waste stack is about 30 feet and two 90 degree angles away. However, about 5 feet away from both sink locations is my main vent that goes from the roof to under the basement floor. There is nothing upstream from this vent except for the first floor venting tying into it.

Can I drain into the main vent? I read somewhere that this is considered "wet-venting" but wasn't sure if it applied to your main vent stack. Just don't know if it will work. If I can, I assume I should also vent the drain into this same vent stack as well? Or can I just use a bigger pipe for the sink drains and not do a separate vent. The problem is that the vent pipe is on the other side of a staircase and I only have about 3 foot of vertical clearance so it would be a tight fit to run a separate vent but the drain won't be a problem.

Where I live, I'm not too worried about passing an inspection since we don't have any code enforcement. I just need to know if the water will run out of the house without any problems.

Thanks in advance.

Terry · Nov 17, 2007

Running water down a vent can cause problems for other fixtures that had been vented properly.

Also, fittings for vents don't normally have the right sweep for waste.

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Smellslike$tome · Nov 18, 2007

bloard said:
I'm adding two sinks to a basement of a fairly new house. The closest current waste stack is about 30 feet and two 90 degree angles away. However, about 5 feet away from both sink locations is my main vent that goes from the roof to under the basement floor. There is nothing upstream from this vent except for the first floor venting tying into it.

Can I drain into the main vent? I read somewhere that this is considered "wet-venting" but wasn't sure if it applied to your main vent stack. Just don't know if it will work. If I can, I assume I should also vent the drain into this same vent stack as well? Or can I just use a bigger pipe for the sink drains and not do a separate vent. The problem is that the vent pipe is on the other side of a staircase and I only have about 3 foot of vertical clearance so it would be a tight fit to run a separate vent but the drain won't be a problem.

Where I live, I'm not too worried about passing an inspection since we don't have any code enforcement. I just need to know if the water will run out of the house without any problems.

Thanks in advance.

The IPC allows what you describe and you are correct it will be considered a wet vent from the point at which the drain connects to the existing vent. At a distance of 5' the waste line serving each sink will need to be 2" diameter. If you use 1 1/2" at that distance the waste line must be revented to shorten the distance to the vent to no less than 3.5' (just use the 2"). If all is as you say it is this will work just fine. Make sure that the sink wastes are not tied together before connecting to the existing vent. The code will allow, under these circumstances for you to use a cross type fitting but I do not recommend it for the following reason: if one day you need to cable out the line through one of the sinks, the cable will very often "jump" the cross and run up into the other sink rather than down the line. To avoid this use either a double wye with 2-2" street 45s or a double combination (which is the same thing) or you can vertically stack your sink connections.

Frenchie · Nov 18, 2007

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Smellslike$tome · Nov 18, 2007

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