dabensys
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Breaking my promise, I am posting another thread.
I just got my plumbing rough inspected, and it passed. However, I used individual, dry vents for the WC, Tub and Shower. The inspector passed my work, but that it was actually 'old code'. He said 'new code' prefers you to wet vent a bathroom group. He says dry vents tend to get clogged, and once clogged, there's not any way to fluch out the clog, and bye bye vent. Not wanting to argue with him, since he is the expert and more importantly the inspector, I thanked him for both his signoff and his advice.
Now to my question... I'm under the IPC in GA. I have scoured the Sanitary Sewage and Vents chapters 2009 IPC (as well as the 2006 IRC and my state's supplements) and I do not read anything that expeicitly states wet venting is preferred over dry venting for a bathroom group. Am I missing something? Is this something that plumbers just come to know through years of training and experience that we novice homeowners simply will just not get by reading a code book?
Thank you.
I just got my plumbing rough inspected, and it passed. However, I used individual, dry vents for the WC, Tub and Shower. The inspector passed my work, but that it was actually 'old code'. He said 'new code' prefers you to wet vent a bathroom group. He says dry vents tend to get clogged, and once clogged, there's not any way to fluch out the clog, and bye bye vent. Not wanting to argue with him, since he is the expert and more importantly the inspector, I thanked him for both his signoff and his advice.
Now to my question... I'm under the IPC in GA. I have scoured the Sanitary Sewage and Vents chapters 2009 IPC (as well as the 2006 IRC and my state's supplements) and I do not read anything that expeicitly states wet venting is preferred over dry venting for a bathroom group. Am I missing something? Is this something that plumbers just come to know through years of training and experience that we novice homeowners simply will just not get by reading a code book?
Thank you.