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Hi,
My dad, the carpenter, is re-modeling my 1970's basement apartment.
We would like to add a bathroom in the basement. My dad is retired but has been a carpenter since he was in his teens so he knows what he is doing and when he isn't sure, he doesn't fool around.
This is where we are stuck now.
Please see the pictures.
The picture with the water tank is on the other side of the room.
The other pictures show the clean out on the left of the picture with the right showing the check valve(I think...plumbing newbie here).
I don't think we can move the check valve but it will be in what will be an office/temp bedroom. On the left where the clean out is, we want to put a bathroom so we need to cut the concrete and lay pipes for a toilet and a shower. My dad is not sure where the piping is going underground. He's done his own in the past but had it mapped out by the builder and he's done my brother in law's but apparantly it was straight forward.
Questions:
1 : How do we tell where the pipes underground are going. I take it the vent (shown in the picture with the water tank) pipe goes to the check valve which then goes to the street.
2 : If we decide to get a plumber to do this, what would be the rought cost in the GTA to add a pipe for a toilet and shower? Anyone on this forum a plumber?
Please note that obviously I am not the expert doing any of the re-modeling. However, I'm the computer expert that knows how to search for great sites like this and post whereas my dad has much more useful talents (like doing the re-modeling!). Therefore, my questions are not coming from the brains behind the project....haha
Thanks in advance,
LIP
My dad, the carpenter, is re-modeling my 1970's basement apartment.
We would like to add a bathroom in the basement. My dad is retired but has been a carpenter since he was in his teens so he knows what he is doing and when he isn't sure, he doesn't fool around.
This is where we are stuck now.
Please see the pictures.
The picture with the water tank is on the other side of the room.
The other pictures show the clean out on the left of the picture with the right showing the check valve(I think...plumbing newbie here).
I don't think we can move the check valve but it will be in what will be an office/temp bedroom. On the left where the clean out is, we want to put a bathroom so we need to cut the concrete and lay pipes for a toilet and a shower. My dad is not sure where the piping is going underground. He's done his own in the past but had it mapped out by the builder and he's done my brother in law's but apparantly it was straight forward.
Questions:
1 : How do we tell where the pipes underground are going. I take it the vent (shown in the picture with the water tank) pipe goes to the check valve which then goes to the street.
2 : If we decide to get a plumber to do this, what would be the rought cost in the GTA to add a pipe for a toilet and shower? Anyone on this forum a plumber?
Please note that obviously I am not the expert doing any of the re-modeling. However, I'm the computer expert that knows how to search for great sites like this and post whereas my dad has much more useful talents (like doing the re-modeling!). Therefore, my questions are not coming from the brains behind the project....haha
Thanks in advance,
LIP
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