Smunderdog
New Member
The 4" main drain line exiting my house goes through the wall of my basement 50" above the floor.
My washing machine can be placed within 6' of this drain line.
I am able to replumb the main drain line (adding a Y) to add a direct drain for the washing machine, but is there a way to do this that would be code compliant as it releates to the various stand pipe/trap measurements necessary to meet code?
So basically I want to use the washing machine's pumping ability to get the water above the 50" level and then allow gravity to do the rest of the work from there...so everything indicated in Terry's infamous photo would need to be above 50" off the floor.
Doable or do I have to keep things the way they are where I currently am pumping the discharge into a sump it and them a sump pump pumps it up into that main drain line?
My washing machine can be placed within 6' of this drain line.
I am able to replumb the main drain line (adding a Y) to add a direct drain for the washing machine, but is there a way to do this that would be code compliant as it releates to the various stand pipe/trap measurements necessary to meet code?
So basically I want to use the washing machine's pumping ability to get the water above the 50" level and then allow gravity to do the rest of the work from there...so everything indicated in Terry's infamous photo would need to be above 50" off the floor.
Doable or do I have to keep things the way they are where I currently am pumping the discharge into a sump it and them a sump pump pumps it up into that main drain line?